Jack White’s Ego to Release Solo Album
After several years of notable collaboration, Jack White’s Ego announced he is splitting with his mentor in favor of making his own music.
Sir Paul McCartney Pees on Kurt Cobain Legacy in Nirvana Reunion
New York, NY: Sir Paul McCartney released the rumor that he would be playing with the surviving members of grunge rock group Nirvana hours before the Hurricane Sandy Relief concert…
Review of The Avett Brothers’ “The Carpenter”
Apparently I owe my thousands of readers an apology. It appears I suck as a music reviewer. No no, please stop protesting. While I appreciate your love and support, I…
Not An Airplane: It Could Just Be This Place(or time) Review
Reviewing music can be a tedious job. To create one, you have to take into account your interpretation of what the artist hoped to accomplish and meld it with how…
Review of Hugh Laurie’s “Let Them Talk”
This is what happens when you give every kid in the soccer league a trophy. This is what happens when you hold up movie and television stars as idols. They…
Shared Progress: A Review of “Late Bloomer” by The Northstar Session
The Inept Owl has been lucky enough to have a few artists in multiple fields come back again and again with new albums, ideas, and visions. It has the feel…
Performance, Feedback, Revision: Rap Artist Baba Brinkman Hits NYC
Rap as an art form has continually evolved. From its tribal, beat-based story-telling syncopation around a fire to its modern, beat-based story-telling syncopation in 50,000 capacity sports arenas, rap has…
Review of Christian St. Croix’s “Rebel Yells (And Other Tales)
You think you know the blues? Hold up there, Hipster Hank. Put down your PBR and listen for a minute. This isn’t your super-rare bootleg 45 of Etta James playing…
Review of TV on the Radio’s “Nine Types of Light”
On April 20th, I got an email notification whose subject line read: “The Editor wants to share ‘TV on the Radio’ with you.” Do me a favor: go to Wikipedia,…
Review of Deftones: Diamond Eyes
To be fair, I knew fuck-all about the Deftones before I hear their latest album, Diamond Eyes. I thought, based on the name, that they were some sort of jazzy,…