new release Archive
07 Sep 2026
Blu-ray Review: Born Innocent: The Redd Kross Story
Viewers and listeners of a certain age know that Born Innocent was the title of a lurid-for-its-time 1974 TV move starring Linda Blair. Rock fanatics know that the title also […]
26 Aug 2026
System 7’s Second Summer of Love (Part 3 of 3)
Continued from Part Two… Bill Kopp: What kind of synthesizer gear did you use on Flower of Life? Steve Hillage: Well, there’s quite a bit of our antique EMS. And […]
25 Aug 2026
System 7’s Second Summer of Love (Part 2 of 3)
Continued from Part One… Bill Kopp: From my perspective, your guitar work seems to be more integrated into what System 7 does on Flower of Life than it perhaps was […]
24 Aug 2026
System 7’s Second Summer of Love (Part 1 of 3)
A shorter edit of this feature was first published on The Tonearm. Steve Hillage and Miquette Giraudy embarked on their fascinating musical journey several decades ago. They began working together […]
20 Aug 2026
Hundred-word Reviews, August 2026 #3: Jazz
For this installment of my Hundred-word Reviews, I take a quick look at five archival jazz releases. Four of them are sourced from newly-discovered private tapes documenting performances at Chicago’s […]
19 Aug 2026
Hundred-word Reviews, August 2026 #2: More New Releases
Like it says above: more. All great. Jim Basnight – Under the Rock Aficionados of power pop may have first come into contact with the music of Jim Basnight when […]
18 Aug 2026
Hundred-word Reviews, August 2026 #1: New Releases
Time once again for some hundred-word reviews. As a reminder, if it gets covered here, it has my seal of approval; implicit in that is that it deserves a longer, […]
13 Aug 2026
Billy Fuller’s Kosmische ‘Fragments’ (Part 3 of 3)
Continued from Part Two… What other synthesizers did you use on these tracks? The main one is the one that we’ve always used in Beak> as well, which was one […]
12 Aug 2026
Billy Fuller’s Kosmische ‘Fragments’ (Part 2 of 3)
Continued from Part One… Something you just said made me think about this. When I talk to artists, it often comes up that they consider sequencing to be nearly as […]
11 Aug 2026
Billy Fuller’s Kosmische ‘Fragments’ (Part 1 of 3)
A much shorter edit of this interview was first published in The Tonearm. Billy Fuller is a versatile bassist with a dazzling CV. He’s a founding member of modern-day experimental […]