pop Archive
08 May 2020
Album Review: Nancy Priddy — You’ve Come This Way Before
In 1967, a young singer named Nancy Lee Priddy was part of a group of musicians assembled to assist in the making of Songs of Leonard Cohen, the debut release […]
30 Apr 2020
Album Review: Bobby Hatfield — Stay With Me
The history of popular music is scattered with tales of aborted projects, albums that for one reason or another never saw the light of day. Though it finally saw a […]
29 Apr 2020
Album Review: America — Heritage II
Back when I was growing up, liking the music of the band America was something one pretty much kept to himself. They didn’t exactly rock, and though their vocals sometimes […]
25 Apr 2020
Album Review: Shplang — Los Grandes Excritos
It’s always a bit of a head-scratcher when a band I’ve never heard of releases a best-of set. But then I remember that – try as I might – for […]
23 Apr 2020
Album Reviews: Various Artists — The Big Stir Singles Series
Back in the days when it still actually played music videos, MTV put together a promo clip featuring David Bowie. The Thin White Duke smiled rakishly at the camera and […]
10 Apr 2020
New Yorkers in Sheep’s Clothing: The Strangeloves Story (Part Three)
Continued from Part Two… Onstage, the band was a mix of incongruous elements. The typical American audience member of 1965 wouldn’t have known that Australia had neither zebras nor African […]
09 Apr 2020
New Yorkers in Sheep’s Clothing: The Strangeloves Story (Part Two)
Continued from Part One… When it’s suggested that the story sounds like a scene straight out of a motion picture, Feldman agrees. “Listen, our whole career has been something out […]
08 Apr 2020
New Yorkers in Sheep’s Clothing: The Strangeloves Story (Part One)
An edited version of this feature appeared previously in Record Collector. One evening in late November 2018, Lenny Kaye’s phone rang. The music journalist and (since 1971) guitarist for Patti […]
03 Apr 2020
Album Review: Pop Co-op — Factory Settings
It was more than a decade ago when the Spongetones released what would turn out to be their final album, Scrambled Eggs. The group went out (recording-wise) on a high […]
26 Mar 2020
What Was ‘Losst’ is Now ‘Founnd’: A New Harry Nilsson Album (Part 3)
Continued from Part Two … Harry Nilsson always had definite ideas about how his songs should sound. Even a listen to the piano-and-vocal demo recording of “Without You” from 1971 […]