The Inner Ear

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Stacey Kent’s The Boy Next Door (Candid): Put on Ms. Kent’s album and you’ll understand why Clint Eastwood asked her to sing at his 70th birthday, and why Remains of the Day author Kazuo Ishiguro included one of her CD’s among his “desert island” disc picks for Radio 4 in the U.K. With Ms. Read More

Pernice Bros. Do Delicious Downers; World Musicians Chase Fear in Fez

If you’ve never made the midwinter drive north towards Boston on I-90-on your way to an assignation you know you’ll bitterly regret-only one other experience comes close to conveying that feeling of dead, dry, inescapable New England cold, and that’s listening to Massachusetts by the Scud Mountain Boys.

Massachusetts is, hands down, the best Read More