Etiket: Review
Traveler Review Awards: Matera the friendliest city in the world
M.atera ranks first among the friendliest places in the world. This is the verdict of the Traveler Review Awards 2022the initiative promoted by Booking.com which rewards the best hospitality of…
Review: Anaïs Mitchell :: Anaïs Mitchell
At least since her masterful reinterpretation of Orpheus HADESTOWN (2010), Anaïs Mitchell has been one of America’s great songwriters. The album has since become a successful musical, earning her eight…
Review: Eels :: Extreme Witchcraft
When everyone wants to bang their heads against the edge of the table, it’s time for Mark Oliver “E” Everett. There is no other explanation for the fact that he…
Eels: “Extreme Witchcraft” – Magic and Motivation (Review & Stream)
It was not in the script that Eels mastermind Mark Oliver Everett and producer and guitarist John Parish (PJ Harvey, Aldous Harding) would dare to repeat their collaboration exactly twenty…
Review: Tocotronic :: War never again
When the night was deepest, Tocotronic came and spread a warm blanket over us. In the misty pandemic spring of 2020, the biggest German rock band that never wanted to…
Tocotronic: “Never Again War” (Review & Stream)
What the band says: “We wanted to write songs about general vulnerability, mental turmoil and existential vulnerability, about loneliness and fear, but also about dreams and love, appropriate to the…
Review: Tara Nome Doyle :: Værmin
Two songs about snails and two about leeches: on her new album, the Irish-Norwegian-Berlin musician Tara Nome Doyle wrongly celebrates insects, spiders or crows denigrated as “vermin” (VÆRMIN). In doing…
The underground railway: Aldo Grasso’s review of the TV series
LBY UNDERGROUND RAILWAYGender: DramaticDirected by Barry Jenkins. With Thuso Mbedu, Chase W. Dillon, Joel Edgerton, Sheila Atim. On Prime Video Slavery and the long struggle to obtain minimum civil rights…
Kiefer Sutherland: “Bloor Street” (Review & Stream)
As Jack Bauer, he routinely saved his country in 24 hours. Kiefer Sutherland did not manage such a feat with his third album. When the Canadian with a nasally hoarse…
John Mellencamp: “Strictly A One-Eyed Jack” (Review & Stream)
The guitar scrapes grimly, the man growls: “I always lie to strangers/ I always lie to people I may know/ There’ll be no church bells chiming for me/ No contest…