Andy Beta has written about music and comedy for the Wall Street Journal, the disco revival for the Village Voice, animatronic bands for SPIN, Thai pop for the Believer, New Age music for the LA Times, and judged the 2010 World Air Guitar Championships in Oulu, Finland.
With his 79th birthday behind him, Willie Nelson is pondering his mortali… more »
The 21st century was a fallow one for neo-soul, an appellation that was o… more »
While this 1975 film from Milos Forman swept every category save Best Sou… more »
The soundtrack for Wim Wenders’s 1984 Palme d’Or-winning exis… more »
With his debut, Where You Go I Go Too, Norwegian nu-disco producer Hans-P… more »
You’ve seen how the Muscle Shoals ghost reacted to the music of Sch… more »
It’s not just that the scream that occurs six seconds into the fier… more »
After seeing former Spaceman 3 member Pete “Sonic Boom” Kembe… more »
It used to be easier to pretend that an album was its own perfectly self-… more »
“Song of Los,” the second track off of The Devil’s Walk… more »
Much like Wooden Shjips’ main man Eric “Ripley” Johnson… more »
The Portland quintet Blitzen Trapper has always worn its early-’70s… more »
In the Whole Earth catalog, a Vetiver is a highly fragrant type of South … more »
Responsible for one of the most critically-feted, argued about, scrutiniz… more »
Willie Nelson’s chart run nearly coincided with his much publicized… more »
“To live outside the law you must be honest,” the Dylan lyric… more »
“Willie & Family” is always an umbrella: true kin, close … more »
The Bash Brothers of ’88, the murderous 1927 tandem of Ruth and Geh… more »
Shoe shiner, member of a polka band, guitarist in his brother-in-law… more »
On Circuital's pedal steel-laced fifth track "Outta My System," our n… more »
It used to be easier to pretend that an album was its own perfectly self-… more »
The conventional line on Willie Nelson’s career is that he was hand… more »
By late 1977, the outlaw movement, headed up by Willie and Waylon, had no… more »
At the height of the Outlaw Country movement, both Willie and Waylon ackn… more »
As they age, extreme metal merchants often inject various non-metallic styles into their songs in order to hasten their musical growth. Sometimes, as with Alcest and Jesu, they develop to the point where their original… more »
