Rock 
NEIL DIAMOND: Collaboration Works on “Moon”
But writing with Neil Diamond was like writing with any great writer.
A.A. BONDY: On Track
A.A. Bondy takes it easy throughout his new full-length When the Devil’s Loose, but it’s a subtly tortured record whose religious preoccupations and melancholia seem ingrained. A former rock star who found the pressures and constraints of big-time, big-label life a drag on his muse, Bondy whistles in the dark on When the Devil’s Loose. [...]
DAVID BAZAN: Carry On
David Bazan, alone and forsaken. If ever there was a spokesman for those suffering from the God-sick blues, David Bazan is it. As the frontman behind Pedro the Lion for nearly a decade, Bazan has created a virtual trademark on doubt-ridden lyrics, sketching characters constantly slipping to-and-fro on a moral slope, or candidly confessing his [...]
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