With the creation of her Lana Del Rey persona, singer/songwriter Lizzy Grant stitched together the iconography of a fading American dream with soaring but melancholic pop songwriting, becoming an icon unto herself in the process…

By this point, Vannelli has pared away the often-bizarre edges of his sound and became more mainstream. That's not a bad thing. This album's predecessor, A Pauper in Paradise, seemed to blow up his pretensions to skyscraper size with only the melodic and gorgeous "The Surest Things Can Change" coming out unscathed…

The phenomenal success of the movie American Graffiti spawned renewed interest in '50s and '60s rock & roll. Sha-Na-Na became the most prominent of the oldies bands, but it was Flash Cadillac and the Continental Kids who both appeared in that influential film and on its soundtrack (with the delightful "She's So Fine," also included on this, their debut album)…

Whoever LOBO was didn't matter. LOBO was a gentle troubador who walked on this earth and record classic mellow tracks like his bloodbrothers in BREAD. During a time of heavy rock of MOUNTAIN and BLACK SABBATH, Lobo walked into the room and old ladies would drop their canes and sob openly…

With someone as prolific for new releases as Ginger Wildheart, you’d be forgiven to expect a drop in quality at one point or another. 'The Pessimist’s Companion' is not that release. Written as a follow up to the honest and personal 'Ghost In The Tanglewood', this album continues on the topic of depression, suicide and Ginger’s personal struggles, making it another very emotional collection of brutally honest songs…