Author Archive
24 Apr 2012
Jump Out the Window: The Brotherhood Story (part 2)
A Serialized Feature in Ten Parts: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 Continued from Part One… During […]
23 Apr 2012
Jump Out the Window: The Brotherhood Story (part 1)
A Serialized Feature in Ten Parts: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 This is the first part […]
20 Apr 2012
Album Review: Humble Pie – On to Victory / Go For the Throat
The title of Humble Pie‘s first single – 1969’s “Natural Born Boogie” quickly telegraphed the group’s musical mission: straight-ahead, riffy rock of the sort that would fill arenas with fist-pumping […]
19 Apr 2012
Album Review: The Squires of the Subterrain – Sandbox
Imagine this: a Beach Boys pastiche that’s also a concept album dealing with ecological devastation. Sandbox is that and more: it’s a one-man-band affair by The Squires of the Subterrain, […]
18 Apr 2012
Album Review: Pink Floyd – The Dark Side of the Moon (Experience Edition)
Pink Floyd‘s The Dark Side of the Moon is one of the greatest albums of the 1970s – right up there with Who’s Next and a very short list of […]
17 Apr 2012
Album Review: Wes Hollywood – Fantasy Arcade
In 2012, it’s an open question how many listeners are looking for new music that draws upon the best of powerpop and what in 1979 we called new wave. Well, […]
16 Apr 2012
Happily Lost in Translation: A Talk with Brian Jonestown Massacre’s Anton Newcombe
In the 1970s, when direct-dialing for international telephone calls became widespread, the practice was largely cost-prohibitive. Even though in those days music journalists sometimes actually got paid(!) for writing stories, […]
13 Apr 2012
Album Review: George Harrison- Early Takes, Vol. 1
When The Beatles rolled out their Anthology CD sets – six discs worth of previously-unreleased music in 1995 and 1996 – hardcore Beatles fans found that the albums continued a […]
12 Apr 2012
Album Review: Personal Space: Electronic Soul 1974-1984
Here’s an interesting thought experiment: What might happen if you gathered a bunch of musicians steeped in 70s soul, funk and r&b, took away their guitars and basses, gave them […]
11 Apr 2012
Album Review: Bangtower – Casting Shadows
Attention shredding fans! Here’s one you’ll want to know about. Aggressively innovative Brand X bassist Percy Jones has a power trio called Bangtower, and Casting Shadows is their (relatively) new […]