Tame Impala, Deadbeat ⭐️⭐️❌❌❌ Kevin Parker, AKA Tame Impala, is back with a new album. Their first in five years. The name Tame Impala implies the existence of Wild Impala… Which I would have rather been listening to here. Honestly, the title Deadbeat is very fitting, because by the time you reach the end of this album you feel like the one song idea he seems to have had on this album has been beaten to death. Seriously, every song blends into each other. There’s no real unique identity to any of them. They all have a similar mid tempo...

John Lennon & Yoko Ono, Power to the People (Live at the One to One Concerts) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ John Lennon is back from the dead! Holy Christ! It’s a miracle! No… Not really. This is a recording of the only two full length concerts he ever did post-Beatles, though. It’s interesting hearing him perform live because he just really never did it, and hated it. But, this will make you wish that he had prioritized performing live. The performances here are great. John is energetic and in a good, jovial mood, concealing his nervousness quite well. The band is really tight....

Taylor Swift, The Life of a Showgirl ⭐️⭐️❌❌❌ Taylor Swift is back with a new album. This seems to be an annual occurrence at this point.  Now, recently we have seen a number of artists albums this year who just released one last year, and I’ve thought they’ve all been lesser quality than their previous album. But if anybody can persevere and buck the trend, surely it’s Taylor Swift. Right? Wrong. While this album is far superior to The Tortured Poets Department musically, lyrically it falls short… Again. I knew this was going to be a musical improvement over Tortured...

Robert Plant with Suzi Dian, Saving Grace ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The legendary Robert Plant is back with a new album. This album is pretty much what you would expect Robert Plant to be doing in 2025. Just a wise, elder statesman of music bringing traditional folk and blues songs back to life. You could take it back to the 70s and play this album for people and they’d be like, “Yeah, that makes sense.” The music on this album just has that good old fashioned Americana feel. And I mean, obviously, because it is good old fashioned Americana. But the playing is...