All God’s Children: John Cage’s Apartment House 1776
(Clearly all the Americana aspects of Ives are in the way of sound coming into…
The Solute Record Club: Bruce Springsteen – Nebraska
The first words we hear on Nebraska are, “I saw her standing on her front lawn…
The Solute Record Club: Bruce Springsteen – The River
It may seem weird to call an 84-minute, 2-song double album “small,” but that’s absolutely The…
The Solute Record Club: Bruce Springsteen – Darkness on the Edge of Town
Mary, the dress-waving vision from “Thunder Road,” looks the song’s starry-eyed narrator and his dreams…
The Solute Record Club: Bruce Springsteen – Born to Run
Bruce Springsteen famously described the opening snare of Bob Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone” as…
The Solute Record Club: Bruce Springsteen – The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle
Bruce Springsteen’s second full-length, The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle (believe me, that’s…
The Solute Record Club: Bruce Springsteen – Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J.
Every artist has to start somewhere. Bruce Springsteen didn’t start with Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J. By…
New Modes for Old Truths: Unforgiven: the Music of Diamanda Galás and Galina Ustvolskaya
Have you not taken encouragement to sin against God, on that very presumption, that God…
The Solute Record Club: Nirvana – MTV Unplugged in New York
I was once talking with a friend about Nirvana, and after a few minutes of…
The Solute Record Club: Nirvana – In Utero
How do you even begin to talk about In Utero without at least mentioning the…