Classic Album Review: Ruben Studdard | The Return

“Have no fear, girl,” reassures Ruben Studdard. “It’s the return of your velvet Teddy bear.”...

https://tinnitist.com/2026/10/13/classic-album-review-ruben-studdard-the-return/

Classic Album Review: Sting | Songs From The Labyrinth

The former Police man plucks a bunch of 15th-century ballads and ends up sounding like a tape loop of Greensleeves....

https://tinnitist.com/2026/10/13/classic-album-review-sting-songs-from-the-labyrinth/

Classic Album Review: Rod Stewart | Still The Same… Great Rock Classics Of Our Time

The good news: Rod Stewart is finished hacking up the Great American Songbook. The bad news: He’s…

https://tinnitist.com/2026/10/13/classic-album-review-rod-stewart-still-the-same-great-rock-classics-of-our-time/

Classic Album Review: Ray LaMontagne | Till The Sun Turns Black

“Yesterday is gone, yesterday is dead,” points out Ray LaMontagne. “Get it through your head.” He’s talking about a lost love. But he…

https://tinnitist.com/2026/10/13/classic-album-review-ray-lamontagne-till-the-sun-turns-black/

Classic Box Set Review: Various Artists | What it Is! Funky Soul & Rare Grooves

Every music geek loves finding a piece of buried treasure — the more obscure the better. Well, it doesn’t get…

https://tinnitist.com/2026/10/13/classic-box-set-review-various-artists-what-it-is-funky-soul-rare-grooves/

Classic Album Review: The Decemberists | The Crane Wife

Colin Meloy is an odd duck....

https://tinnitist.com/2026/10/13/classic-album-review-the-decemberists-the-crane-wife/

Classic Album Review: Tragically Hip | World Container

When you’re a big-time rock band — even a big-time Canadian rock band — it must be tempting to stay safely ensconced in your own little self-important…

https://tinnitist.com/2026/10/13/classic-album-review-tragically-hip-world-container/

Classic Album Review: Kronos Quartet / Terry Riley | Requiem for Adam

The avant-garde string ensemble Kronos Quartet may still be best known for their deconstructionist covers of Jimi Hendrix and…

https://tinnitist.com/2026/10/12/classic-album-review-kronos-quartet-terry-riley-requiem-for-adam/

Classic Album Review: Charlotte Church | Enchantment

Classical music’s little girl is growing up — into a Broadway baby....

https://tinnitist.com/2026/10/12/classic-album-review-charlotte-church-enchantment/

Classic Album Review: Carole King | Love Makes the World

“This album is a collection of songs I wrote alone or with other songwriters,” Carole King helpfully informs us on her new CD — presumably allaying any…

https://tinnitist.com/2026/10/12/classic-album-review-carole-king-love-makes-the-world/

Classic Album Review: Leonard Cohen | Ten New Songs

Ten new songs? For sure. But 10 new ideas? No so fast....

https://tinnitist.com/2026/10/12/classic-album-review-leonard-cohen-ten-new-songs/

Classic Album Review: American Head Charge | The War of Art / Kataklysm | Epic (The Poetry of War)

Heavy metal is seldom as topical — intentionally or otherwise — as these…

https://tinnitist.com/2026/10/12/classic-album-review-american-head-charge-the-war-of-art-kataklysm-epic-the-poetry-of-war/

Classic Album Review: Snoop Dogg | Bones

This month’s Snoop Dogg album also serves as the soundtrack to his upcoming, self-starring, blaxploitation horror movie of the same name....

https://tinnitist.com/2026/10/12/classic-album-review-snoop-dogg-bones/

Classic Album Review: Nick Lowe | The Convincer

Proto-punk pub rocker; new wave singer-songwriter; indie label icon; producer of Elvis Costello, The Pretenders and The Damned; onetime son-in-law of Johnny Cash — you…

https://tinnitist.com/2026/10/12/classic-album-review-nick-lowe-the-convincer/

Classic Album Review: Oysterhead | The Grand Pecking Order

No, not Oysterband. This is Oysterhead — an alt-rock jam-band supergroup featuring Primus bassist Les Claypool, Phish guitarist Trey Anastasio and…

https://tinnitist.com/2026/10/12/classic-album-review-oysterhead-the-grand-pecking-order/

Classic Album Review: Blue Rodeo | Greatest Hits

Blue Rodeo are so ubiquitous in Canada that a Greatest Hits CD almost seems superfluous — is there anybody who hasn’t heard Diamond Mine enough times yet?...

https://tinnitist.com/2026/10/12/classic-album-review-blue-rodeo-greatest-hits/

Classic Album Review: The Charlatans UK | Wonderland

The U.K. tag is there to differentiate Manchester soul-rock outfit The Charlatans from a ’60s San Francisco garage-rock band....

https://tinnitist.com/2026/10/12/classic-album-review-the-charlatans-uk-wonderland/

Classic Album Review: Sloan | Pretty Together

Sometimes you can be too good for your own good. Just look at Sloan....

https://tinnitist.com/2026/10/12/classic-album-review-sloan-pretty-together/

Classic Album Review: Drive-By Truckers | Southern Rock Opera

Everybody over 30 knows where they were when John Lennon got gunned down. But how about when Lynyrd Skynyrd’s plane crashed?...

https://tinnitist.com/2026/10/12/classic-album-review-drive-by-truckers-southern-rock-opera/

Groover Playlist 386 | Holiday Modes (Past 1)

Arbiter Prime makes a monster, Austin Powell gets revenge, Laudinum and co. serve up a swan song and more in today's submissions from Groover, a platform that connects artists…

https://tinnitist.com/2026/10/12/groover-playlist-386-holiday-modes-past-1/