Articles by Chris Wodskou

The End of No Depression

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

While its so-called progenitors like Wilco and Old 97s move on to other American music, No Depression is reaching a crossroads. As Chris Wo...

Roxy Music

Pop Art For Your Pleasure

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

In the dubious jargon of radio programming, if it's from the 70s, it's classic rock, and if it's from the '80s, it's retro rock, which may...

Waterboys Shinobu Yaguchi

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

In case you needed reminding, there's no guarantee that simply because a film is made outside North America and screened at a film festival...

Afro Cuban All Stars

Revitalising Traditions

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

To the world that's become enamoured with the Buena Vista Social Club, Ry Cooder is the patron saint of Cuban music. But it was composer/ar...

Latin playboys, not The Latin Playboys

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

The days of not being able to go into a clothing store or turn on a radio without hearing "Living La Vida Loca" or "If You Had My Love" are...

The Delgados

Great Scots!

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

About a year ago, the term political theatre became literal in a goofy way in Scotland. The Scots voted to devolve powers from London to Ed...

Richard Buckner's Tragic Troubadour

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

Richard Buckner's work has always been haunted by frustrated hopes and thwarted emotion. His latest album, The Hill, grew out of a literary...

Welcome to Fantasy Island

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

Television critics gripe a lot about reality TV — that it's crass, demeaning, just plain dumb and not really real. But reality TV is the mo...