Pearl Jam had one of the strangest careers of any of the major grunge acts in their first five years of existence. Their winding road took them to massive commercial success with debut Ten, an album that as much as any defines the grunge sound in the public memory (thanks to hits like “Alive,” “Even […]
New Adventures in Hi-Fi marks the end of an era. As the title quote, from final track “Electrolite,” indicates, the album (and that song specifically) is a bit of a send-off to the 20th century, a goodbye that might arrive a few years early but is still fond in its own ways of what […]
In so much of the popular imagination, especially among people of a certain age, Lyle Lovett is probably still best known as “that guy Julia Roberts married despite his face.” That’s a shame, because Lovett’s unique brand of bittersweet folk-rock country-fusion is one of a kind, making him a standout even among that set […]
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