"(Don't Fear) The Reaper" is more than a meme
- Mar 14, 2022
- 3 min
I needed the calmness of "Black Water" tonight
- Mar 11, 2022
- 3 min
"Stars": searching for an answer
- Mar 1, 2022
- 3 min
"Could It Be Magic": From Chopin to Manilow — with a slight detour
- Feb 28, 2022
- 3 min
"Reach Out I'll Be There" is... a bit more unusual than I realized
- Feb 25, 2022
- 5 min
"Inner Light" speaks to my anxious self in a re-emerging social climate
- Feb 25, 2022
- 3 min
"Message in a Bottle": togetherness... in loneliness?
- Feb 21, 2022
- 3 min
"Undun," the Guess Who's jazzy warning against acid
- Feb 16, 2022
- 4 min
On "Dirt," Keane are true to themselves as they decry an all-too-familiar conflict
- Feb 12, 2022
- 5 min
"Intrasport" shouldn't work as well as it does, but I can't stop dancing to it
- Jan 29, 2022
- 3 min
On the soul masterpiece that is "Midnight Train to Georgia"
- Jan 6, 2022
- 4 min
Small decisions make "Go All the Way" stand out from the pop rock pack
- Jan 5, 2022
- 3 min
"Next to Me," a standout of 2012 that remains fresh a decade on
- Dec 21, 2021
- 3 min
"White Winter Hymnal" is an odd song to be associated with Christmas
- Dec 1, 2021
- 5 min
"Let Me Love You," a beautiful 21st-century ballad with a lot going on under its surface
- Oct 25, 2021
- 4 min
"Kiss from a Rose" yields a momentary, yet troubling warmth
- Oct 12, 2021
- 4 min
Fugees' cover of "Killing Me Softly With His Song" holds its own and then some
- Oct 1, 2021
- 4 min
"Dancing in the Moonlight" is the sound of harmless joy and escape...
- Sep 26, 2021
- 4 min
"She's Not There" combines various influences into a stirring pop rock hit
- Sep 25, 2021
- 6 min
"Second Chance" shows the power of paying attention to the little things as much as the big picture