peter holsapple Archive
30 Dec 2025
Musoscribe’s Best of 2025: New Releases
While my tastes often run toward archival releases, I do listen to a lot of new music. And I make the point again and again: those who would argue that […]
18 Jun 2025
Album Review: Peter Holsapple – The Face of 68
I’m on record – at least I think I am – that for me, the greatest present-day lyricist is none other than Peter Holsapple. While he’s lent his considerable talents […]
24 Jun 2022
The dB’s in Black and White (Part Four)
Continued from Part Three… The other three dB’s are even more direct on the matter. “I hate power pop,” says Gene Holder. “The dB’s were more experimental [than that]. Chris’s […]
23 Jun 2022
The dB’s in Black and White (Part Three)
Continued from Part Two… By the time the quartet’s first single, “Black and White” b/w “Soul Kiss” was released in 1980, Rigby says that Stamey and Holsapple (who had moved […]
22 Jun 2022
The dB’s in Black and White (Part Two)
Continued from Part One… A single credited to Chris Stamey and The dB’s featured an a-side (“(I Thought) You Wanted to Know”) played by Stamey with Television’s’ Richard Lloyd, who […]
21 Jun 2022
The dB’s in Black and White (Part One)
Four musicians from North Carolina came together in the 1970s as The dB’s. Perennial critics’ darlings, the group never hit the big time on the level of their friends, kindred […]
01 Sep 2021
30 Days Out, September 2021 #1: Deltaphonics, Avatar, Sylvan Esso, Connells
Things are back to normal, but it’s a new normal. Live music has indeed returned, but if you go, plan on wearing a mask, showing proof of vaccination or negative […]
01 Aug 2021
30 Days Out, August 2021 #2: Peter Holsapple, Jamie Laval, Pop Evil, Free Radio
Asheville is in the process of reasserting its place as a go-to market for intriguing, compelling musical artists. Full-scale national touring is gradually coming back, but for now – with […]
29 Jun 2021
Album Review: Various Artists – Yesterday’s Tomorrow
If you’re at all familiar with the alternate and/or college rock scenes of the 1970s and ‘80s, you’ll know the names Mitch Easter (Let’s Active, producer of R.E.M.), Peter Holsapple […]
06 Jul 2020
Album Review: Holsapple & Stamey — Our Back Pages
As wonderful as the dBs were during their original run (featuring Peter Holsapple with and then without Chris Stamey), the more acoustic-flavored efforts by Holsapple and Stamey – 1991’s Mavericks […]
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