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Album Review: Don't Walk, RUN To Get NANCY SINATRA KEEP WALKIN': SINGLES, DEMOS & RARITIES 1965 - 1978
by Bobby Patrick - October 20, 2023

Nancy Sinatra’s catalogue is spectacularly represented on the new release from the Light In The Attic label, KEEP WALKIN’....

Album Review: Ann Hampton Callaway Captures Perfect Love On Her New Album FINDING BEAUTY, ORIGINALS, VOL. 1
by Bobby Patrick - October 17, 2023

FINDING BEAUTY, ORIGINALS, VOL. 1, listen for the boundless love throughout. Sit with this VOL. 1 with your favorite sippable and huggable...

Music Review: Singer Sings A Sexy, Slinky, Slithery Single With Natalie Douglas' New Release TRUST IN ME
by Bobby Patrick - October 11, 2023

Natalie Douglas ain’t no python and her rich voice makes it all so very sexy that one can hardly stand it....

Music Review: A Merry Holloween & A Happy Christmas Are Here With Stephanie J. Block's New Holiday Single SLEIGH RIDE!
by Bobby Patrick - October 09, 2023

Does Stephanie J Block reinvent the wheel with her recording of SLEIGH RIDE? Nope, but with her voice, she doesn’t have to....

Album Review: SWEENEY TODD Cast Recording Lacking Flavor
by Bobby Patrick - September 30, 2023

The truth is that any recording of this score is worth listening to, and most people do tend to love the recording that was their first....

Review: GET HAPPY! MICHAEL FEINSTEIN CELEBRATES THE JUDY GARLAND CENTENNIAL at Music Center at Strathmore
by David Friscic - September 24, 2023

The brilliant and undying talent of the legendary entertainer Judy Garland was celebrated at the Music Center at Strathmore in the memory-laden production Get Happy! Michael Feinstein Celebrates the Judy Garland Centennial. Produced with the approval of daughter Liza Minnelli, this memorable show di...

Music Review: Sari Jordan Calls For An End To Hostilities Between… Us All, Really, With Her New Single, CEASEFIRE
by Bobby Patrick - September 18, 2023

CEASEFIRE is a beautiful if painful portrait of resolving conflict between people and the battle scars love can leave behind....

Album Review: Barry's Boys Bring Back Beautiful Blends To Broadway On HARMONY'S New Cast Album
by Bobby Patrick - September 10, 2023

This recording checks our most important Broadway Album Box - one comes away from the first listening with a real sense of the show and its story....

Album Review: Joplin & Virginia Woolf Live Inside Mary Bridget Davies On Her New Live Album FREEDOM OF MY MIND
by Bobby Patrick - September 01, 2023

The passion of her music and the soul of her work comes right out of the speakers to you (not AT you)....

Album Review: Idina Menzel's DRAMA QUEEN is Making Us All Dance
by Bobby Patrick - August 30, 2023

This kind of music really does give us that old disco feeling and with Idina Menzel’s DRAMA QUEEN, we can all grab it together....

Album Review: Out Of The Past Comes Rose Marie's 1st Ever CD Collection For Her 100th Birthday on ROSE MARIE SINGS
by Bobby Patrick - August 28, 2023

For those of us for whom she represents more than kitsch, this album is an essential....

Album Review: Lucie Arnaz Tells Everyone “How I Got The Job” On Her New Album LIVE AT THE PURPLE ROOM
by Bobby Patrick - August 26, 2023

Lucie’s singing voice is that of a Broadway belter, but more than that, Lucie Arnaz is an actor....

Music Review: Ben Jones' Latest Swoon-Worthy Single TOO LATE NOW Has Arrived Just In Time
by Bobby Patrick - August 22, 2023

We loved this new single of an old song in a young voice, and though many of us have heard this one many times over many years, Ben Jones makes it worthwhile again....

Music Review: Meryl Streep Delivers… Again! This Time on ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING Singing LOOK FOR THE LIGHT
by Bobby Patrick - August 21, 2023

Sara Bareilles, Benj Pasek, and Justin Paul have composed a beautifully haunting song that you just can’t get out of your head....

Review: THE GIPSY KINGS at The San Diego Symphony's Rady Shell
by Ron Bierman - August 17, 2023

What did our critic think of THE GIPSY KINGS at The San Diego Syphony's Rady Shell? The only empty seats at the Rady Shell's high-energy Gipsy Kings concert were the hundreds unoccupied while their associated booties were swaying in the aisles below waving arms. Nicolas Reyes sang 'Quiero Saber' to ...

Album Review: Singer Composers Anya Turner & Robert Grusecki Give Us A Cabaret Gift Tied Up In A Pretty Bow With MID-CENTURY MODERN
by Bobby Patrick - August 08, 2023

Finally, what you have with Turner & Grusecki’s MID-CENTURY MODERN is new songs written in an old-fashioned way with old-fashioned sounds...

Music Review: Nicole Henry Covers Sade (In Gold) With Her New Single IS IT A CRIME?
by Bobby Patrick - August 04, 2023

The longing of a woman who wants to give all to someone who has nothing but lies for her… but still she asks the title’s question… Is It A Crime?...

Music Review: Clyde Alves Sings To His Mom, For His Mom, & With His Mom On His New Single - IT'S STILL A PARTY
by Bobby Patrick - July 31, 2023

We loved this new single from one of the Broadway Theatre’s go-to song and dance guys, Clyde Alves, and his mom, Teresa Alves....

Review: BONNIE & CLYDE, Original West End Cast Recording
by Abbie Grundy - July 28, 2023

The Original West End Cast Recording of Bonnie & Clyde is a tense, cinematic treat....

Review: BEYONCE RENAISSANCE WORLD TOUR at Huntington Bank Stadium
by Jared Fessler - July 23, 2023

What did our critic think of BEYONCE RENAISSANCE WORLD TOUR at Huntington Bank Stadium?...

Music Review: Naughty Rupert Holmes & Pool-Pah Album THE FLASHER Still Naughty In All The Right Ways
by Bobby Patrick - July 28, 2023

THE FLASHER is a time capsule of the psychedelic era of the funky electronic 70s...

Music Review: Billy Porter Breaks A Sweat On The Dance Floor With His New Single BROKE A SWEAT
by Bobby Patrick - July 16, 2023

Billy hasn't even broken a sweat yet!...

Album Review: Diva Grace Garland Burns Her Bra For All To Hear On New Album LADY G!'S BRALESS SECLUSION
by Bobby Patrick - July 11, 2023

In the aftermath of hearing LADY G!’S BRALESS SECLUSION, we had no choice but to drop that metaphysical needle back at the beginning and listen to it again, immediately....

Review: CARRY THEM WITH US, Album
by Barry Lenny - July 09, 2023

That Brìghde Chaimbeul is a very fine piper goes without saying....

Album Review: Nicole Zuraitis Releases New Album Of Her Latest Jazz with HOW LOVE BEGINS
by Bobby Patrick - July 07, 2023

For this album, Nicole Zuraitis has used deep imagery in the marriage of her words and music. Sometimes swirling, sometimes flowing, sometimes rushing like the rapids....