Author Archive
12 Oct 2010
Album Review: Brute Force – Confections of Love
Do you ever sit around pondering unlikely musical scenarios? Strange, uncharted-waters of stylistic combinations? Well, if that sort of thing interests you, you’ll know about — or want to know […]
11 Oct 2010
Album Review: Esquerita – Wildcat Shakeout
The accepted and/or conventional wisdom holds that Little Richard (Penniman) was mightily influenced by a character known as Esquerita. As quoted in the liner note to Fantastic Voyage’s expanded reissue […]
08 Oct 2010
Bootleg Bin: John Lennon – Dakota Demos
Tomorrow — October 9 2010 — would have been John Lennon’s 70th birthday. He died just after he turned 40. Here’s a look at some recordings he made in the […]
07 Oct 2010
The Top Five Things I Learned at Margaritaville
I’ve been playing in cover bands on and off — mostly on — since around 1980. With the exception of some years — the late 80s to early 90s — […]
06 Oct 2010
Album Review: Spock’s Beard – X
File Under: How Did I Miss These Guys? The new album X from Spock’s Beard offers up a set of bright, well-polished progressive rock songs. The group’s tenth outing (natch) […]
05 Oct 2010
Interview: KT Tunstall
From the archives: I interviewed the Scottish songstress for a 2007 cover story in a now-defunct print magazine called Skope. Here’s that feature. “I haven’t seen it really recently, but […]
04 Oct 2010
Album Review: John Norum – Play Yard Blues
I’m not afraid to admit that I have no use at all for hair metal. I find it totally lacking in substance, full of posing and posturing, and frankly more […]
01 Oct 2010
DVD Review: Rolling Stones 1969-1974: The Mick Taylor Years
Being a music critic, it probably goes without much saying that I place some value in the opinions of other critics. Not all of them, mind you; but quite often […]
30 Sep 2010
Album Review: Putumayo Presents Yoga
I don’t practice yoga. But through my work with clients in my parallel career, I have become very familiar with the aesthetic of this ancient practice. To criminally oversimplify, it’s […]
29 Sep 2010
Book Review: A Wizard, A True Star: Todd Rundgren in the Studio
Here’s the thing: I occasionally review books, but I certainly never sit down to write a review before I’ve actually finished reading that book. It only makes sense. Rules are […]