indie Archive
28 Nov 2021
Album Review: Peter Bilt Group — Do It Up
One set of rhetorical questions that I encountered during my research for my new book was as collection of what-ifs. Of the nearly 30 bands that released music on the […]
10 Sep 2021
Wind Up Happening: Musoscribe Meets LMNOP (Part 5 of 5)
Continued from Part Four… We’ve talked about the whole band concept. But with MIDI technology and everything, do you have any interest at all in doing solo gigs? Well, if […]
09 Sep 2021
Wind Up Happening: Musoscribe Meets LMNOP (Part 4 of 5)
Continued from Part Three… I’m not even suggesting that you should – it’s just an open question – but have you ever toyed with the idea of doing something completely […]
08 Sep 2021
Wind Up Happening: Musoscribe Meets LMNOP (Part 3 of 5)
Continued from Part Two… So, then you don’t record everything you write, or do you? Well, yes and no. I record what I call song snippets. I have a little […]
07 Sep 2021
Wind Up Happening: Musoscribe Meets LMNOP (Part 2 of 5)
Continued from Part One… Thrilled with my new discovery, I raced to my desktop, opened my email app and dashed off a quick note to said publicist. I feverishly typed […]
06 Sep 2021
Wind Up Happening: Musoscribe Meets LMNOP (Part 1 of 5)
In one sense, LMNOP is as DIY and underground as it gets. Launched in the early 1980s in Atlanta, LMNOP was – and has remained – the vehicle for Stephen […]
30 Aug 2021
Album Review: The Black Watch — Led Zeppelin Five
I don’t make a habit of employing Yiddish words or phrases in writing of speaking. I’m not a member of the tribe. But when the situations call for it, when […]
17 Aug 2021
Album Review: Snowglobe — Doing the Distance
Doing the Distance is full of surprises, especially for listeners who approach it without preconceived notions. After a brief, brass-centric intro (“Theme Music,”) the group shifts into what initially sounds […]
04 Aug 2021
Thirty Years with the Mother Hips (Part Three)
Continued from Part Two … “We started in Wisconsin and ended near San Francisco at the Shoreline Amphitheater,” Tim Bluhm recalls. “And by that time, we were headlining the side […]
03 Aug 2021
Thirty Years with the Mother Hips (Part Two)
Continued from Part One … Tim Bluhm concedes that the Mother Hips fan base isn’t as large as the following of some other groups, but he believes that their followers’ […]