John Oates, “Reunion.” As the alphabetically subverted second half of ’80s pop duo Hall & Oates, John Oates played guitar and sang backup for his taller, blonder songwriting partner Daryl Hall on hits like “Maneater” and “She’s Gone.” Seen as one of music’s legendary wing-men, Oates is emerging from…

John Oates, courtesy. “It’s been a while since I played there,” John Oates recently said about performing in California, either on his own or as half of Hall & Oates, the mega popular rock-soul-R&B duo with Darryl Hall. That will soon change, as he and percussionist John Michel are…

Temples, courtesy Molly Daniel. This week’s tracks go all over the place, musically. Temples are back, and their psychedelic sound has only gotten better. For a bit of alt-country, Carolina Story never disappoints. John Oates makes us wish for a better tomorrow with his beautiful cover and Fences still…

Daryl Hall, ‘BeforeAfter.’ The songs of Hall and Oates permeated both the AM and FM airwaves in the later 1970s and much of the ’80s, with 29 Top-40 singles (six of them going to No. 1). These were slick songs, most of them mid-tempo earworms that mixed Philly soul…