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  • 1 week ago | sterlewine.substack.com | Stephen Thomas Erlewine

    "I often read about myself in the 1990s as having some 'lost period.' Not really. I was working the whole time."—Bruce Springsteen, in a promotional film touting the release of Tracks II: The Lost AlbumsWho could blame anybody for thinking Bruce Springsteen spent the 1990s quietly? He released precisely three albums during the decade, delivering two of them on the same day in 1992.

  • 1 week ago | sterlewine.substack.com | Stephen Thomas Erlewine

    For a Celtic soul poet, Van Morrison sure has been literal in his old age. His drift toward blunt declarations calcified on Latest Record Project, Vol. 1, a double album delivered during the height of the pandemic that teemed with grievances against lockdown. What was once charmingly cranky now seemed foul, saved only by an easy touch that sometimes slid into laziness. Remembering Now almost plays like an apology for all that unpleasantness.

  • 2 weeks ago | stereogum.com | Stephen Thomas Erlewine

    Brian Wilson spent most of his life revered as one of the great songwriters of the rock’n’roll era, a reputation built primarily on the songs he wrote and recorded with the Beach Boys in the 1960s. Wilson emerged during the glory days of the record business, a time when the composition was inseparable from the recording. He played a crucial role in developing the distinction between a record and song.

  • 2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Stephen Thomas Erlewine

    18 hours agoBeach Boys legend Brian Wilson dies at age 82Brian Wilson - who was best known as a founding member of The Beach Boys - has died at the age of 82.

  • 2 weeks ago | sterlewine.substack.com | Stephen Thomas Erlewine

    Josh Homme lifts himself off a tomb at the start of Queens of the Stone Age's short film Alive in the Catacombs, ascending from his recline as if he was a vampire rising from the grave. Homme seems weary and grizzled, his smirk and swagger a distant memory. Alive in the Catacombs is the realization of a dream Homme harbored when he was a teenager: he wanted to play music within the Catacombs of Paris, an underground cemetery piled high with skulls and skeletons.

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Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Stephen Thomas Erlewine @sterlewine
8 Jun 25

RT @sterlewine: Closing out the week with my reviews of new albums from Stereolab, Garbage, Ty Segall and Miley Cyrus. https://t.co/0bgs4LT…

Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Stephen Thomas Erlewine @sterlewine
7 Jun 25

RT @sterlewine: My shock that we are getting a new Pulp album in 2025 is eclipsed by my shock that it’s absolutely terrific. My review of M…

Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Stephen Thomas Erlewine @sterlewine
7 Jun 25

RT @sterlewine: And a link to the newsletter--please subscribe/support if you like the work I did at Allmusic. https://t.co/ILkFv34HYY