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2026 Midterm Report Card: Choosin' Ella Langley
Somehow, we’ve rolled around to the middle of 2026 which means its time for a midterm music report. As always, the standard caveats applied: I haven’t heard everything of interest to me, nor are my rankings final. The positions of many of t...
Reviews: Olivia Rodrigo, Midland, Red Clay Strays, Modest Mouse, Old Crow, Mike Campbell.
Plus another live Neil Young, Keith Urban goes yacht rock, and Barry Manilow.
Album of the Week:
Reviews: Willie Nelson, Kurt Vile, Don Williams, Kip Moore, Violet Grohl, Joshua Ray Walker
Plus Guided By Voices, Alana Springsteen, and The Greenberry Woods.
Album of the Week
Paul McCartney, The Boys of Dungeon Lane
Paul McCartney—The Boys of Dungeon Lane
★★★★
Paul McCartney introduced The Boys of Dungeon Lane, his twentieth solo album, with “Days We Left Behind,” a wistful glance back at his formative years in Liverpool. The choice of lead single...
Review Roundup: Courtney Barnett, Ashley Monroe, Marisa Anderson, Snail Mail, Joe Jackson
Plus New Pornographers, Thundercat, Peter Frampton, Lou Gramm and RAYE.
Next week brings an avalanche of new releases (many of them quite good), so I’m using this slow release week to catch up with a bunch of albums from the past couple of...
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