pop Archive
09 Jan 2019
Hundred-word Reviews for January 2019
The backlog is threatening to get unmanageable once again. As a kind of editorial pressure release valve, here’s a quick look at ten worthy albums that have recently crossed my […]
06 Jan 2019
Album Review: Imagination Movers – 10-4
At its worst, kid-oriented music is so sugary that it makes the listener’s teeth hurt. At its best, the genre entertains kids and (admittedly to a lesser extent) adults alike, […]
31 Dec 2018
Musoscribe’s Best of 2018
Even having shifted my focus these last few years toward interviews and feature writing, I still manage to listen to and review quite a few albums. In one form or […]
30 Dec 2018
Album Review: Eleanor Underhill — Navigate the Madness
Underhill Rose enjoys well-deserved popularity and success for its music. Since coming together on the campus of Warren Wilson College nearly a decade ago, Eleanor Underhill (vocals, banjo) and Molly […]
29 Dec 2018
Video Roundup 2018
Covering DVDs and Blu-Rays takes more time than reviewing albums; I have to set up in my living room, with a recliner, a couple of cats and (generally) a good […]
28 Dec 2018
I Talk to the Wind (and Other Instruments): The Ian McDonald Interview, Part Two
Continued from Part One… By 1976 McDonald was involved in the founding of a new and very different group. Joined by ex-Spooky Tooth guitarist Mick Jones and American singer Lou […]
27 Dec 2018
I Talk to the Wind (and Other Instruments): The Ian McDonald Interview, Part One
Ian McDonald’s career has taken some seemingly unexpected twists and turns. The singer, songwriter and instrumentalist played with an embryonic version of groundbreaking progressive rock group King Crimson, and was […]
22 Dec 2018
A Vinyl Roundup to Round Out 2018
So much good music has found its way into my ears in 2018. As the year winds toward its close, I’d like to share words on a few of these […]
17 Dec 2018
Album Review: Semisonic — Feeling Strangely Fine (20th Aniv. Edition)
Certain music becomes an exemplar of the time in which it was made and released. If the artist involved is lucky, that music not only evokes memories of that period, […]
16 Dec 2018
Album Review: Todd Warner Moore — Spark
When an album of music opens with a spoken-word prologue, it positions itself as, well, a certain kind of album. And Todd Warner Moore’s Spark starts just that way, hipping […]