Our take on the surfer-cum-strummer's 'All the Light Above It Too'
Jack Johnson's 'All the Light Above It Too' is his first album in four years. Photo: Josh Rhinehart/Wikimedia Commons CC-BY-SA-3.0
‘All The Light Above It Too’ album artwork
Jack Johnson is a retired competitive surfer living with his college sweetheart in Hawaii, but dude wants you to know he still stresses. “I don’t care for your paranoid us-against-them walls,” he purrs over gentle calypso-rocksteady grooves on “My Mind Is for Sale”; “Fragments” is a wistful ballad for our befouled oceans (see his documentary The Smog of the Sea). On an LP of quiet activism and love songs, Johnson reboots the Zen-master delivery and swaying-palm-tree melodic sense that made his Curious George soundtrack LP a Number One hit. It’s no less inviting, especially with a frozen cocktail. We all need to chill.
While India’s music festival boom strongly echoed across the country, here are the people who…
The German rock veterans return to India as part of their Coming Home shows taking…
The musician will also drop a new single on Friday
The guitarist broke multiple bones in his foot and will miss some of the band’s…
The upcoming A&E project follows the Curtis Jackson-produced doc, Sean Combs: The Reckoning, released last…
The singer has been roped into an online debacle stemming from an essay penned by…
