Music Product Reviews

With her new album, Greenwich Time, Broadway star Rebecca Luker (The Secret Garden, Show Boat, The Sound of Music, The Music Man, Nine: The Musical) gives voice to the work of bold new songwriters while honoring a generation of musical theatre giants - including Jule Styne, John Kander and Maury Yeston - with some of their most deeply personal dram[Read More]

It starts with a sunrise, it ends with "one star shining," and in between Closing Time contains an honest year's worth (1973, to be exact) of sweet, melodic, vintage Tom Waits--minus some of the vocal growl and thematic grit of his later stuff (but you can see it coming). Waltzes, lullabies, blues, jazz, you name it. Driving songs and drinking song[Read More]

Romancing The 70's is a comprehensive collection of 9 CDs (plus 1 bonus CD for a total of 10) devoted solely to the romantic hits and classic love songs of the seventies. Enjoy 138 romantic classics from all the top easy listening artists of the decade---John Denver, Olivia Newton-John, Tony Orlando, Helen Reddy, Chicago and many more. Brand new an[Read More]

This Seattle-based band was formed from the ashes of the incredibly talented Carissa's Wierd [sic], whose mopey and self-deprecating songs were like some magical and baroque combination of the Magnetic Fields, Cat Power, and Leonard Cohen. Longtime friends of Iron and Wine, few fans in their native Pacific Northwest could understand why Carissa's w[Read More]