We Get By, for the first time in the current Staples era, plays as a bit of a mixed bag.
Music Reviews
The Felice Brothers: Undress
Undress is a charming, thoughtful and consistent album.
Music Features
Discography: Parliament-Funkadelic: Connections & Disconnections
By the end of the 1970s, George Clinton’s P-Funk empire was crumbling.
Concert Review: Art Garfunkel
How far away old age must have seemed to the young Garfunkel, then in the midst of S+G’s brief, but successful run as a duo.
Film Features
Oeuvre: Carpenter: Ghosts of Mars
Ghosts of Mars is another old-school outing bearing many characteristics familiar from Carpenters' early work, but also suffering from the same sort of formal imbalance
Criminally Overrated: Mission: Impossible – Fallout
Mission: Impossible – Fallout is insipid because the whole plot is designed to deliver set pieces to the audience and most of these set pieces are either dull…
Books
Guestbook: by Leanne Shapton
Guestbook makes for an interesting, quick read that stays with the reader far longer than it takes to read each and every story contained therein.
K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches: by Tyler Kepner
Baseball is the ideal literary sport.
Lists
The Ten Best Debut Albums of the 1990s
These are the best debut records of the 1990s.
The Ten Best Debut Albums of the 1980s
These are the best debut records of the 1980s.