Album Review: Alaska Reid – Disenchanter Steve Forstneger·July 17, 2023To hear some tell it, the lockdown-era migration of Californians to mountain states like Montana and Idaho compared...Album ReviewsReviews
Album Review: Kedr Livanskiy – K-Notes Steve Forstneger·June 27, 2023In Amor Towles’ 2016 novel, A Gentleman In Moscow, the newly-in-place Soviets hand a life sentence of house...Album ReviewsReviews
Album Review: Christine & the Queens – PARANOÏA, ANGELS, TRUE LOVE Steve Forstneger·June 12, 2023Five years ago, Angels In America returned to the stage in New York City under the direction of...Album ReviewsReviews
Album Review: McKinley Dixon – Beloved! Paradise! Jazz!? Steve Forstneger·June 2, 2023It’s coincidental, but the halves of McKinley Dixon’s name can be linked to two Williams. Killed by an...Album ReviewsReviews
Album Review: Sister Ray – Teeth EP Steve Forstneger·May 12, 2023“Deep in my belly I thought we’d agreed,” Sister Ray sang on “Violence”, which opened their 2022 album...Album ReviewsReviews
Album Review: Petite Noir – MotherFather Steve Forstneger·April 19, 2023In February, Pope Francis visited the Democratic Republic of Congo and might have often been the most liberal...Album ReviewsReviews
Album Review: Unknown Mortal Orchestra – V Steve Forstneger·March 21, 2023The thing about visiting Hawaii and other islands stranded in the ocean is, after a while, you begin...Album ReviewsReviews
Album Review: Weval – Remember Steve Forstneger·March 9, 2023For all the good and bad of modern policework, it has provided ample evidence regarding the human memory...Album ReviewsReviews
Album Review: Algiers – SHOOK Steve Forstneger·February 24, 2023Exhausted, on the verge of breaking up, and strapped for ideas, Algiers returned home for their fourth album...Album ReviewsReviews
Album Review: Young Fathers – Heavy Heavy Steve Forstneger·February 3, 2023Maybe – as the dominos fall in the Ukraine/Russia theatre – parallels to the Cold War make themselves...Album ReviewsReviews