velvet crush Archive

26 Dec 2016

Best Music of 2016: Reissue/archival Releases

avant-garde, best-of list, blues, jazz, new wave, pop, psych, rawk, reissue, review, vinyl

I love new music, but I’m also attuned to keeping up with the latest in reissues and archival releases. Sometimes those feature some of my favorite artists; other times they turn me on to music of the past that I’ve never even heard. In 2016 I’ve been able to select my Top Ten reissue and/or

22 Aug 2016

Album Mini-review: Velvet Crush — Pre-teen Symphonies

By Bill Kopp

new release, rawk, review

File next to: The Smithereens, Matthew Sweet, Teenage Fanclub If they didn’t scale the heights of commercial success that some of their contemporaries reached, it was no fault of Velvet Crush. All of the ingredients for success were there: muscular playing and arrangements, razor-sharp hooks, great lead and harmony vocals, and solid songwriting. They persevered

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