The new Albert Hammond, Jr. record was almost called Cockpit Voice Recordings if you can believe it. But the curly-headed guy with the guitar worried it wouldn’t be light enough; too “serious in the wrong way,” even. He worries about these things.

Adrian Thaws (aka Tricky) was once touted as a master of the 90′s trip-hop scene, but when interviewing him that’s one term I strictly avoided. It’s known that he prefers not to talk about the genre, so it was a relief not to babble about the past and instead, to learn more about the future of this legend in the making.

Taking geek chic to another level, the UK’s Young Knives are back with their sophomore release, Superabundance, which, with its surprising electro flourishes, has more than met up to expectations of well-heeled fans on both sides of the pond.

It’s a sunny day in purgatory, a hopeful walk through T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” while impish shadows tug at …Read the Rest