Dear lovers – Even though this post has the headline of “17 Best Albums of 2017,” I certainly didn’t listen to every single record released. Oh, lists. They are fun and great and can offer superb recs, but they’re always subjective little buggers. Love ’em or leave ’em, I suppose. Without further ado and with…
Beck is (almost) back! The last time Beck was in the news, Prince was handing him an award for Album of the Year and Kanye West was showing the world what a douchebag he was. Oh, 2015. At the time of his win, the genre-bending artist was already two years into work on his next…
In the mid-Seventies, David Bowie briefly lived in Los Angeles while recording his 1976 album Station to Station. Shortly after joining Beck for a pre-Grammys performance of “The Man Who Sold the World,” Dave Grohl and Pat Smear hit up some of Bowie’s famous LA haunts for Playboy, as the two drove around in a…
If you’ve visited TLW in the last couple weeks, you may have noticed that things have changed ’round these parts. It’s been a super long time coming, but the redesign is now officially COMPLETED! The new layout has responsive design (it’ll look all sorts of fancy on your smartphones and tablets and make for an…
Much to the chagrin of my friends, family and whoever else happens to be within earshot, I still haven’t been able to stop talking about this year’s Firefly Music Festival. Now that real life is happening once again (booo), my head is finally clear enough to jot down some thoughts on what I saw, who…