Author Archive
16 Feb 2012
The Explorers Club: A Five-Star Hotel (part one)
Beach Boys fans the world over – or at least the ones lucky enough to know about it – hailed Freedom Wind, the 2008 debut release from Charleston SC sextet […]
15 Feb 2012
Album Review: Frank Sinatra – The Concert Sinatra
Stereophonic sound recording – what we call stereo – has been around a lot longer than one might think. It didn’t become popular and enjoy wide commercial use (i.e. on […]
14 Feb 2012
Album Review: Air – Le Voyage Dans la Lune
When it comes to – if you’ll forgive the obvious pun – atmospheric music, you can’t do better than Air. Never exactly a rock group, the French duo has carved […]
13 Feb 2012
Book Review: If You Like the Beatles…
When I heard the title, I was immediately hooked: Bruce Pollock‘s If You Like the Beatles sports the irresistible tag line/come-on, “Here are over 200 bands, films, records and other […]
10 Feb 2012
DVD Review: The New York Dolls – Lookin’ Fine on Television
The title Lookin’ Fine on Television is something of a misnomer: the grainy, blurry, timeworn black-and-white film footage of the New York Dolls onstage (and off) never exactly looks good […]
09 Feb 2012
Album Review: CAVE – Neverendless
A full-length followup to 2010’s Pure Moods EP, Neverendless continues and builds upon CAVE‘s sonic approach. That approach involves a driving, heady beat (almost – but not quite – a […]
08 Feb 2012
Coming Attractions: Musoscribe at Ignite Asheville
Way back in 1968, Andy Warhol notably remarked that, “in the future, everyone will be…famous for fifteen minutes.” Well, in light of the Great Recession, the allotment has been trimmed […]
08 Feb 2012
Album Review: Jazz Noire, Darktown Sleaze from the Mean Streets of L.A.
The folks at Fantastic Voyage (and sister label Future Noise) can be counted on to put together thought-provoking compilations. In the past they’ve collected obscurities from the Ember label, and […]
07 Feb 2012
Mitch Ryder: Detroit Built, Detroit Proud
To American music fans, the name Mitch Ryder evokes a particular set of thoughts. Most of these center around his string of hit singles, most of which appear on the […]
06 Feb 2012
Album Review: The Chris Alvy Band – Art Noise
Naming an album is no small matter. Choose wisely, and you succeed in distilling the contents of the record into a few words: call it Dark Side of the Moon, […]