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Chicago’s Ezra Furman has recorded nine albums plus a soundtrack album for the UK TV series “Sex Education” in the last 15 years as either Ezra Furman or Ezra Furman & the Harpoons. Well over 100 original songs, including at least two dozen that I would recommend to anyone.
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The Byrds? They might win for best Dylan covers. Although that’s a competitive field to be sure, as Dylan has been covered by more artists than any…
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Chicago’s Eric D. Johnson has to be one of the best kept secrets of the last two decades. Recording eight albums as Fruit Bats with a ninth on the way…
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…might be Roy Harper’s “When an Old Cricketer Leaves the Crease,” the last song on his 1975 album HQ. If you’ve never heard of Roy Harper, he’s a…
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By “Down Under,” I mean Australia and New Zealand. And by “thunder,” I mean my 20 favorite antipodean albums of the last 20 years. I will attempt to go…
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I am quite sure this makes me the first person in the world to offer an assessment of the very new year in music, but I couldn’t resist given that two…
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Let me start by saying that what motivated me to contemplate this (and to take on this daunting challenge) is that I realized there are very few albums…
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My first newsletter of 2023 is inspired by a chance encounter I had with Dean Wareham at a mutual friend’s party over the holidays. I was a big fan of…
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