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18 May 2025
Album Review: The Mommyheads – Acorn
Cult sensations The Mommyheads have never made a bad album. They’ve also never achieved anything close to the mainstream success they so richly deserve. Clever in the extreme, the NYC-based […]
17 May 2025
Music Blurbs, Vol. 11
Mogwai Pioneering Scottish band Mogwai is known for its unique brand of post-rock, incorporating elements of ambient and experimentalism. Glasgow musicians Stuart Braithwaite (guitar), Dominic Aitchison (bass) and drummer Martin […]
16 May 2025
Album Review: Los Microwaves – What’s That Got to Do (With Loving You)
For every major-label act that made interesting music in the ‘80s (and likely in every other era as well), countless artists and groups toiled in relative obscurity, doing work every […]
15 May 2025
30 Days Out, May 2025 #2: After Ours, Takaat, David Lowery, Larkin Poe
A local act that released one of my favorite albums in recent memory, a band consisting of sidemen who play with one of the most fascinating guitarists working today, and […]
14 May 2025
Take Five: Bad Company
Something of a supergroup, Bad Company was a fixture on American FM radio of the 1970s. The blues-based hard rock band was based in the UK but found more commercial […]
13 May 2025
Album Review: HeavyDrunk and Watermelon Slim – Bluesland Theme Park
The music travels to many destinations on this 11-track, self-released album. Bluesland Theme Park is a split set, with tracks by HeavyDrunk (born Rob Robinson) and by award-winning singer-songwriter Watermelon […]
12 May 2025
Album Review: Bob Corritore and Friends – Doin’ the Shout
Bob Corritore is one busy cat. When we last checked in with the blues harpist and band leader (and his Friends), the new album was Phoenix Blues Rumble. That was […]
11 May 2025
Album Review: Steve Howell & the Mighty Men – Yeah Man
For his 13th long player, guitarist and singer Steve Howell has hand-picked an eclectic assortment of old tunes. The low-key Yeah Man features some well-worn classics alongside some relatively obscure […]
10 May 2025
Album Review: Frank Bey – Peace
Frank Bey passed away five years ago. Winner of a posthumous Grammy Award nomination (Best Traditional Blues Album) for 2020’s All My Dues Are Paid, Bey was the subject of […]
09 May 2025
Take Five: Robin Trower
Robin Trower has had a long and impressive career. A founding member and lead guitarist for Procol Harum, his guitar work adorned that group’s first five albums (and a pair […]