CONTRIBUTOR PROFILE

Jim Allen

Jim Allen has contributed reviews, interviews, features, and more to a wide range of print and online outlets including MOJO, Village Voice, RollingStone.com, Uncut, VH1.com, iTunes, All Music Guide, CMT.com, The Advocate, Country Weekly, Prefix, Blurt, and others. As a musician, he fronts the country band The Ramblin' Kind and power-pop group Lazy Lions, and has released three solo albums. He hosts a weekly online radio show, For the Sake of the Song, on EastVillageRadio.com. Jim lives in Brooklyn with his wife, daughter, dog, cat, and record collection.



  • Music Profile

    Elvis Costello Seminal New Wave Super Star and Singer-Songwriter

  • Music Profile

    Kris Kristofferson The Thinking Man's Outlaw

    By Jim Allen

    One of the biggest game-changers to ever hang up his… >>

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    Leonard Cohen The Only True Rock Poet

    By Jim Allen

    The first singer/songwriter to seriously challenge Bob Dylan for his… >>

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    The Left Banke ‘60s New York baroque-pop band

    By Jim Allen

    Baroque pop as heart-stoppingly beautiful as anything on Pet Sounds

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  • Music Profile

    Tom Waits Eccentric and Eclectic Singer-Songwriter

  • Music Profile

    Townes Van Zandt Singer, Songwriter

  • Music Profile

    David Garland Singer, Songwriter

  • Music Profile

    Five Chinese Brothers Music Group

  • Music Profile

    Mike "Sport" Murphy Singer, Songwriter

  • Music Profile

    Paul Siebel Singer, Songwriter

  • Music Profile

    Pharaoh’s Daughter Music Group

  • Music Profile

    Richard Julian Singer, Songwriter

  • Music Review

    Journey to the End of the Night

    The Mekons
  • Music Review

    Slow New York

    Richard Julian
  • Music Review

    Uncle

    Mike “Sport” Murphy
  • Music Review

    Woodsmoke and Oranges/Jackknife Gypsy

    Paul Siebel
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Profile New Romantic
Profile Field Music
Profile Gil Scott-Heron
Profile Bobby Charles
Profile Patrick & Eugene
Profile Eg White
Profile Bernd and Hilla Becher
Profile The Left Banke
Profile Jim Flora
Profile Coyle and Sharpe
Profile Eddie Izzard
Profile Kris Kristofferson
Profile David Sylvian
Profile Jim Carroll
Profile John Cale
Profile The Zombies
Profile R.E.M.
Profile Peter Gabriel
Profile Prince
Profile Ricky Gervais
Profile Brian Eno
Profile Leonard Cohen
Profile Scott Walker
Profile Fink
List Critical Athens: Songs of the South
List Cover Lovers: 10 Great Covers Albums
List Before Hip-Hop: 10 Proto-Rappers
List The 10 Worst Leonard Cohen Covers
List The 10 Best Leonard Cohen Covers
List Lost Krautrock Classics: 10 Under-Appreciated German Gems
Review Crazy Heart (film)
Review It’s A Cinch To Give Legs To Old Hard Boiled Eggs
Review It Was Easy
Review The Way of the World
Review The Open Road
Review Beat The Devil’s Tattoo
Review This Is Still It
Review High Places Vs. Mankind
Review The Liberty Singles
Review Hunter, Hunter
Review The Atlantic Ocean
Review What Have You Done, My Brother?
Review Measure (Field Music)
Review I’m New Here
Review Scratch My Back
Review Embryonic
Review Out Into the Snow
Review Time Stands Still
Review Dust of Rumour
Review (a)spera
Review Manafon
Review Spoils
Review Rage In Eden
Review Vienna (Ultravox)
Review Adventure Man
Review Is It Love Or Desire
Review Monsters of Folk (album)
Review Live at the Isle of Wight 1970
Review My Old, Familiar Friend
Review Ashes Grammar
Review Bonfires On The Heath
Review Secret, Profane & Sugarcane
Review My Maudlin Career
Review Merriweather Post Pavilion
Review Set ‘Em Wild Set ‘Em Free
Review Veckatimest
Review The Hazards Of Love
Review West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum