2020s music

“All the Usual Suspects Are Acting Weird:” A Song-By-Song Consideration of the Drive-By Truckers’ new record ‘Welcome 2 Club XIII’

By Elizabeth Nelson

In General

On June 10, 2022

It's been twenty-five years, give or take, that the world has enjoyed the highly specific miracle of the Drive-By Truckers and no one is more shocked than them. Their remarkable new LP Welcome 2 Club XIII is a downright Proustian series of meditations on how...

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“They’re handing out hopes and dreams and schemes at the entrance to your gym:” A discussion with singer/songwriter Jennifer O’Connor

By Elizabeth Nelson

On March 31, 2022

Jennifer O'Connor (photo by Amy Bezunartea) The brilliant New York-based singer/songwriter Jennifer O'Connor has been authoring tremendous albums of hope and longing for more than twenty years. Her newest release.

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“It Takes A Thief:” Brief Reflections on Destroyer’s Extraordinary New LP Labrynthitis

By Elizabeth Nelson

On March 25, 2022

Two decades after his toy shop-Bowie breakthrough Streethawk: A Seduction, Dan Bejar remains as protean, ambitious and gloriously distracted as his foundational hero. Over the course of the last twenty.

“On the Government Website:” An Expert Critic’s Examination of Van Morrison’s Anti-Lockdown Songs

By Elizabeth Nelson

In General

On December 6, 2020

Many of you are aware of the Covid-19 epidemic, but fewer of you may know about Van Morrison’s position on the whole thing. That's right: I mean Van The Man, the Belfast Cowboy, the Caledonia Count and other honorifics. I love Van Morrison’s music so...

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“It’s thirty-six hours past Judgment Day”: Reckoning with Bob Dylan’s Murder Most Foul

By Elizabeth Nelson

On March 29, 2020

Uh oh. This was the initial thought that crossed my mind when I saw the news on Friday that Bob Dylan had released his first original song since 2012's LP.