pop Archive
16 Dec 2014
Album Review: Willow Willow — Listening to Music
Sweetly jangling pop that recalls everything from Let’s Active to Lesley Gore to The La’s to The Cranberries (especially them) to The Roches, Listening to Music benefits from its fetchingly […]
12 Dec 2014
Psychedelic Resurrection: The Blues Magoos Interview, Part 2
Continued from Part One… From a commercial standpoint, The Blues Magoos were largely over after the lackluster chart performance of their third LP. “After Basic Blues Magoos, we broke up, […]
11 Dec 2014
Psychedelic Resurrection: The Blues Magoos Interview, Part 1
Forty-six years after the release of their last psychedelic-flavored release, New York City-based rockers The Blues Magoos have returned with a new album, Psychedelic Resurrection. From its multicolored fractal cover […]
02 Dec 2014
Album Review: Various Artists — Right Now
I’ve observed before that Fantastic Voyage makes full advantage of the unique copyright/licensing laws as they exist in the UK; in the United States, putting together a package such as […]
28 Nov 2014
Album Review: A Kool Kat Kristmas, Vol. 2
It’s that time of year again. In the USA, at least, the days after Thanksgiving is the unofficial kickoff of the Christmas season. And every year about this time, I […]
26 Nov 2014
Album Review: The Movements — Like Elephants II
Less than a year after releasing Like Elephants I (reviewed separately), The Movements came back with 2014’s Like Elephants II. And the two discs truly are of a piece: sonically […]
25 Nov 2014
Album Review: The Movements — Like Elephants I
Every so often an album comes along that really pushes all of the right buttons with me. And as with most listeners, for me, what exactly those buttons are constitutes […]
18 Nov 2014
Album Review: Midge Ure — Fragile
In my last review, I took a look at a new release from Colin Hay, an artist who came to prominence in the early 1980s with his group Men at […]
17 Nov 2014
Album Review: Colin Hay — Man @ Work
If you’re a pop music listener of a certain age, you remember Men at Work. Smiling, photogenic darlings of early MTV, they broke through in that early period of the […]
14 Nov 2014
November Hundred-word Reviews, Part 5
Once again, it’s time for a run of hundred-word reviews. My inbox has been overflowing of late, and even after removing the material that I deem not worth my time […]