From The Desk Of Joe Pernice: Elvis Costello’s “Imperial Bedroom”

For more than a decade, the Pernice Brothers have mostly made plush, romantic orchestral pop that doesn’t gild the lily once tended by the Zombies, Walker Brothers and Elvis Costello. True to frontman Joe Pernice’s working-class nature, the band’s sixth and latest album, Goodbye, Killer (Ashmont), does away with the sighing string section and goes … Continue reading From The Desk Of Joe Pernice: Elvis Costello’s “Imperial Bedroom”