Why Should the Devil Have All the Roots Music?: Unpacking the religious-to-roots music migration with Pitchfork and Salon.com contributor Stephen Deusner
Still Got ‘Em, Still Smokin’ 'Em: After 25 years, the Reverend Horton Heat is still holy-rolling and rockin' (Playing Thursday, 20th at Exit/In)
In The Spin: Aerosmith with Cheap Trick at Bridgestone Arena, Natural Lion with Thunderbitch, Fly Golden Eagle, James Wallace and the Naked Light and Promised Land at Ghot Wingz
Plus Critics’ Picks on Raul Malo, Handel’s Messiah, Woody Pines and Blackfoot Gypsies, Linear Downfall with Cigarette Trees and Mechanical River, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, The Beatles vs. Stones Charity Christmas Bowl, Tower Defense with Forget Cassettes and Century Club, Sixpence None the Richer, Thelma and the Sleaze’s Very Sleazy Christmas, Charles “Wigg” Walker, Trans-Siberian Orchestra and more