new wave Archive
15 Dec 2014
EP Review: The New Trocaderos — Kick Your Ass
The New Trocaderos – Kick Your Ass EP This EP is three songs, one featuring each member of this trio (joined by a keyboard player and drummer). “Real Gone Kitty” […]
27 Nov 2014
A Thanksgiving Feast of Mini-reviews
Customarily, I take Thanksgiving Day off from posting to the blog (it’s one of very few days in which I do that). In fact I generally write the pieces days […]
12 Aug 2014
Hundred Word Reviews for August 2014, Part 2
Today’s set of five 100-word capsule reviews looks at recently-reissued, previously-unreleased, and/or compilation albums. How to Stuff a Wild Bikini: Original Stereo Soundtrack What we have here, in my estimation, […]
04 Mar 2014
Hundred-word Reviews: Reissues
Those CDs continue to pile up here at Musoscribe World Headquarters. And even after I cull the unsolicited or semi-solicited ones that don’t make the cut for coverage, I still […]
30 Dec 2013
Album Review: The Chills — Somewhere Beautiful
While I choose to believe that – on some exceedingly modest level – I have reasonably good critical sense of measure where music is concerned, I have no illusions about […]
05 Nov 2013
Photoblogging: Mountain Oasis 2013, Part Two
Some images from the second night of Mountain Oasis Electronic Music Summit in Asheville NC. All photos © Bill Kopp. Photos from the first night are here. More Mountain Oasis […]
01 Nov 2013
Mountain Oasis Electronic Summit: Recap Part 2
On Saturday — the second of the festival’s three nights — I took in two shows of note. I had tentative plans to check out some other sets, but these […]
08 Oct 2013
Album Review: Various Artists — CBGB: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
When endeavoring to judge the merits of a soundtrack album, there’s always the quandary of what measure to use. Should one judge it on the merits, strictly as a thematic […]
23 Sep 2013
Concert Review: Superhumanoids at Asheville’s Orange Peel, 20 Sept 2013
Doubtless you’ve heard the old saying, “If you remember the 60s, you weren’t there.” Well, for whatever reason – perhaps because it didn’t host the ascendancy of the baby boom […]
16 Sep 2013
Album Review: The Monochrome Set — Volume, Contrast, Brilliance
Note: be sure to read all the way through; there’s a new Monochrome Set DVD reviewed as well. The Monochrome Set were one of those bands who never broke stateside. […]