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CONCERT REVIEW: ROGER WATERS – 7/20/17 AT NATIONWIDE ARENA, COLUMBUS OHIO
My anticipation for Roger Waters’ Us + Them tour had been building for quite some time. Those of us who had been paying attention to Roger’s set at the Desert Trip concert last year in California had seen video of his new treatment of “Pigs (3 Different Ones”. He had turned it into a full […]
ROGER WATERS – IS THIS THE LIFE WE REALLY WANT?: The RWOM REVIEW…
I had long ago accepted that we would likely never get a new album from Roger Waters. His last album, Amused To Death was released way back in 1991. I wasn’t even more than passively interested in Pink Floyd at that point. My obsession with everything Pink Floyd related developed during my high school years. […]
ALL THINGS MUST PASS: THE RISE AND FALL OF TOWER RECORDS – THE RWOM REVIEW…
There’s one thing that most true music geeks love and understand, and that is the joy of digging through record or CD bins and killing off a Saturday discovering new finds. But more than that, many of us have been able to experience that in a real record store, with knowledgeable people who actually enjoyed […]
DAVID BOWIE – ★ (BLACKSTAR): The RWOM Review
I am filled with a lot of mixed emotions writing this review. First of all, a sense of grief and mourning for the world’s loss of one of the most prolific, creative and boundary-pushing entertainers of our time. The stars will never align again in such a way that brought us David Bowie. Second, a […]
PRINCE – HITnRUN PHASE ONE: THE RWOM REVIEW…
Less than a year after Prince’s successful double dose of Art Official Age and PLECTRUMELECTRUM, he announced that he had a new album ready. However, as typical of Prince, this wasn’t without some controversy. This summer Prince yanked all of his music, with the exception of a few stray compilation tracks, off of Spotify, which […]
REVIEW: TWENTY ONE PILOTS – BLURRYFACE…
I want to start my first review in quite some time by thanking those who have written me with kind words of encouragement. Sometimes just realizing there are others out there in the world who actually read what I have to say… it can really mean a lot. The internet can be a great place […]
REVIEW: ALABAMA SHAKES – SOUND & COLOR…
Alabama Shakes silences their doubters on their second album Sound & Color. Since their debut album, the band’s skills have grown, taking them from being a throwback southern blues-rock band to… well something a bit more experimental but a lot more powerful. But while “experimental” has killed sophomore albums by many artists, Alabama Shakes took […]
REVIEW: DEAD SARA – PLEASURE TO MEET YOU…
With their self-titled debut album, Dead Sara made a believer out of me. A believer that the the true fire of rock and roll is very much alive. From the sounds of their newest album Pleasure To Meet You., they were just getting warmed up. This album may have as well been named Dead Sara […]
REVIEW: BIG DATA – 2.0 (and a bit of a review of their 3/28/15 Columbus concert set)…
Big Data isn’t so much a band as a concept. A concept built around the technology we’ve developed closing in on us. There’s the good that instant access to information can give us, but of course there’s the downside – the isolation, the lack of physical interaction, and so on. The “band”, at least on […]
REVIEW: MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS – FROOT…
Marina Diamandis, or Marina and the Diamonds as she is professionally known, most likely for those that can’t spell, is back with her third album, FROOT. Last time around, with her concept album Electra Heart, Marina took on the persona of a pop princess superstar, singing songs that highlight both the facade and the reality […]
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