Author Archive
20 Aug 2009
Album Review: Various Artists – “Boy Meets Girl” Classic Soul Duets
Imagine you’re driving a lonely strip of highway late at night. You’re behind the wheel, and for whatever reason — maybe it’s a rental car, I dunno — you don’t […]
19 Aug 2009
Album Review: Creedence Clearwater Revival – The Concert (reissue)
When something is a familiar part of one’s daily existence — when it’s sort of always there — there’s often a tendency to take that thing for granted, to not […]
13 Aug 2009
Album Review: Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs – Under the Covers, Vol. 2
Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs both have deserved reputations as excellent pop artists with impeccable taste in influences. Both came to commercial and artistic maturity in the 80s: Sweet as […]
10 Aug 2009
Album Review: Isaac Hayes – Hot Buttered Soul (reissue)
I’ve written fairly extensively on musoscribe.com about the work of Isaac Hayes. A latecomer to his catalog, I really only discovered the man’s music around the time Ultimate Isaac Hayes: […]
09 Aug 2009
Progressive Nation Act IV: Dream Theater
I like progressive rock, especially the British/European varieties. Those seem informed more by European folk, music of the Middle Ages, and classical, yet with plenty of power and bombast leavened […]
07 Aug 2009
Album Review: Gary Lewis & the Playboys – Complete Liberty Singles
When I was presented with an opportunity to listen to and review The Complete Liberty Singles by Gary Lewis and the Playboys, I jumped at the chance. I knew Lewis’ […]
06 Aug 2009
Album Review: thenewno2 – You Are Here
Have you ever found yourself listening to Electric Arguments, the 2009 album by The Fireman (also known as Paul McCartney and Youth), and said to yourself, “I wonder what it […]
05 Aug 2009
Album Review: Dennis Diken with Bell Sound – Late Music
Good music is always more than the sum of its parts. Let’s say you’re interested in making a pop record. And by pop, here I mean pop in its classic […]
03 Aug 2009
Review Teaser: Dennis Diken with Bell Sound
Smashing! I just went to the mailbox and found my advance copy of the new album by Dennis Diken with Bell Sound. Diken is — among other cool things — […]
02 Aug 2009
Seven New Album Reviews
Doing my level best to erase the backlog of albums slated for review, I’m pleased to offer up some thoughts on no less than seven recent releases. They include: Phil […]