Author Archive
25 Jul 2011
EP Review: Mayer Hawthorne – Impressions
What can I say? I’m old-school. It’s only an album if you can hear it and hold it in your hand. But modern technology being what it is, and the […]
22 Jul 2011
Album Review: Dino Valenti – Get Together
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about musical artists to whom the word mercurial applies. Rock’s history is filled with their names: Moby Grape‘s Skip Spence; Pink Floyd founder Syd […]
21 Jul 2011
Album Review: Night Beats
If your idea of a good time is tinny, fuzz-drenched garage rock in the vein of Sky Saxon and the Seeds, I’ve got a hell of a find for you. […]
20 Jul 2011
R. Stevie Moore’s Hobbies Galore
Known primarily — when he’s known at all – as a studio rat, R. Stevie Moore has more than 400 albums to his credit. No, that’s not a typo: this […]
19 Jul 2011
Album Review: Anathema – We’re Here Because We’re Here
I heard about this album a long time before I heard it. We’re Here Because We’re Here is the eighth studio album from UK sensation Anathema, and it was released […]
18 Jul 2011
Album Review: Concord’s Latest “Definitive” Collections
Concord is at it again, but this time with a bit of a twist. Drawing upon the increasingly deep catalogs under their control, the label has compiled several entries in […]
15 Jul 2011
Album Review – Andy Creeggan – Andiwork III
A subgenre of pop dubbed space age bachelor pad music enjoyed a brief resurgence among muso hipsters, anyway) in the 1990s. An act like Combustible Edison – who, in any […]
14 Jul 2011
Album Review: John Mayall – Howlin’ at the Moon
John Mayall is often labeled a father of the British blues movement, and he earned that title long ago. Born in 1933, Mayall was always older than most of the […]
13 Jul 2011
EP Review: The Qualia – Memorial Gore
I’m not especially sentimental toward the synthier sounds of 80s pop; I had no particular use for Human League when Dare came out, and it hasn’t grown on me in […]
12 Jul 2011
Book Review: Fever: Little Willie John – A Fast Life, Mysterious Death and the Birth of Soul
I recently had a conversation with a friend and fellow writer/editor, and the subject of that discussion was the dwindling opportunities to tell compelling stories from pop music history. So […]