2006-02-20
The enthralling new Streets of New York (released Feb. 21 on the equally new 00:02:59 label) finds the artist in his mid-fifties, his youthful energy unflagging, and he’s never sounded more committed to the themes he’s tackled. They range from the title track—a gritty paean to his adopted hometown that he describes as “my love song to the city”—to the chilling “Cell Phones Ringing (in the Pockets of the Dead),” his unflinching response to the 2004 Madrid train bombings. - James GambleBELL X1
Blue Lights on the Runway
Death From Above 1979
Live at Third Man Records
Elliott Smith
From a Basement on a Hill
Ray Lamontagne
- Gossip in the Grain
AQUALUNG
Words and Music
JANIS MARTIN
THE BLANCO SESSIONS
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