pop Archive
15 Mar 2013
Capsule Reviews: March 2013, Part 2
Here’s yet another in my occasional series of capsule reviews; once again I had a huge stack of CDs deserving of review, but time doesn’t allow for full-length reviews of […]
14 Mar 2013
Concert Review: Elsten Torres, Asheville NC 2 March 2013
It’s always a tough gig playing as the opening act. It’s even more so when the show is like the one I recently witnessed at Asheville’s Civic Center. First there’s […]
12 Mar 2013
DVD Review: Paul Williams Still Alive
It would seem that filmmaker Stephen Kessler (Vegas Vacation) and I have a lot in common. We both look back fondly upon a fixture of our childhood years: Paul Williams. […]
08 Mar 2013
Capsule Reviews: March 2013, Part 1
Here’s another in my occasional series of capsule reviews; once again I had a huge stack of CDs deserving of review, but time doesn’t allow for full-length reviews of everything, […]
26 Feb 2013
DVD Review: Brian Wilson, Songwriter 1969-1982
A few years back, a British based concern called Sexy Intellectual released a 2DVD set, Brian Wilson, Songwriter 1962-1969. This three-hour-plus(!) documentary took an in-depth critical look at the work […]
19 Feb 2013
Album Review: Tony Bennett – As Time Goes By
In 2005, Concord Music Group brought together all of the music Tony Bennett cut for his own label and issued a sprawling, four-plus-hour box set called The Complete Improv Recordings. […]
30 Jan 2013
Album Review: Jamie & Steve — Imaginary Café
I’ve probably told the story before: growing up in Atlanta, I discovered the Spongetones‘ debut LP Beat Music in the bin of an indie record shop not long after its […]
29 Jan 2013
Album Review: Vermouth — RetroFuture Pop Exotica
Being of a certain age, I remember the short-lived exotica revival of the nineties. If you blinked, you might’ve missed it: for a brief few moments in 1994, the pre-Beatles […]
28 Jan 2013
Album Review: The Cleaners From Venus – Living With Victoria Grey
I sometimes wonder if Martin Newell gets tired of all the Ray Davies comparisons. I mean, the man (Newell) has released something like thirty or forty albums (many of these […]
25 Jan 2013
The Chris Stamey Interview
Chris Stamey has been an important – if ever-so-slightly underground – part of the American music scene for decades. An early post-Big Star collaborator with Alex Chilton, he went on […]