pop Archive
20 Apr 2016
Album Mini-review: Information Society — Orders of Magnitude
File next to ABC, Human League, Simple Minds Listeners can be forgiven for thinking that Information Society are an early 1980s synth outfit from the UK; there’s an unmistakable air […]
18 Apr 2016
Ra Ra Riot Move Away from Their Chamber-pop Origins
“What it really comes down to,” says Ra Ra Riot vocalist Wes Miles, “is that, as an artist, you don’t ever want to make the same record twice.” That thinking […]
14 Apr 2016
Single Review: Dirty Sidewalks — “It’s Getting Better” b/w “Hey Girl”
Seattle-based Dirty Sidewalks recently released a 7” single worthy of a listen. The a-side, “It’s Getting Better,” has already gotten some commercial traction in one of the few forms that […]
13 Apr 2016
Album Review: Bobby Long — Ode
At only 30, Bobby Long has a deep catalog of work. After three self-released albums beginning with 2009’s Dirty Pond Songs, he signed with ATO Records and began a string […]
12 Apr 2016
Album Review: The Deadly Ones — It’s Monster Surfing Time
Two of pop culture’s kitschiest phenomenons collide on this new reissue of an ultra-rare LP from 1964. Not counting revivals and renewed interest, surf rock was popular from about 1962 […]
06 Apr 2016
Album Mini-review: Bill Pritchard — Mother Town Hall
File next to: Ray Davies, Lloyd Cole, Martin Newell Despite having released nine albums since 1987, England-based Bill Pritchard isn’t well-known at home , much less here in the USA: […]
04 Apr 2016
DVD Review: International Beat Music Vol. 1
It’s long been established that The Beatles and The Rolling Stones had an incalculable influence upon pop culture of the 1960s and beyond. What’s perhaps less well-known – at least […]
29 Mar 2016
Album Review: The Miamis — We Deliver
I hold Omnivore Recordings in the highest esteem: the collective taste of their prime movers is beyond reproach, and they’ve been responsible for some of the most thoughtful reissues of […]
25 Mar 2016
Album Mini-review: Seth Bogart
File next to: The B-52s, Apples in Stereo, The Television Personalities There’s always a place for some quality trash culture dance pop. Bogart got his start under the Hunx and […]
09 Mar 2016
Album Mini-review: Brett Harris — Up in the Air
File next to: Chris Stamey, Emitt Rhodes, Pete Yorn You can learn a lot about a musician by studying the company he keeps. Durham NC-based Brett Harris has been a […]