compilation Archive
03 Jul 2013
Album Review: Live Kraut: Live Rock Explosions from the Heyday of Krautrock!
I discovered this internet thing about nineteen years ago. Ever since then – more so once I became Editor in Chief for a now-defunct print magazine, and even more so […]
02 Jul 2013
Album Review: Duke Ellington — Rare Live Recordings 1952-53
If your tastes include the work of Duke Ellington – one of the most important composers and bandleaders of the 20th century – then you might want to check […]
26 Jun 2013
Album Review: Pulp and Pop Culture Box Vol. 1
You know what’s cool? When the compiler of a collection of music makes no outsized claims of cultural import about the music. Sometimes it’s art, for sure, but sometime, it’s […]
20 Jun 2013
Album Review: R.E.M. – Green 25th Anniversary Edition
If you’re at all like me, and fondly remember the days when albums came jam-packed with an assortment of goodies, you may appreciate the new 25th Anniversary deluxe reissue of […]
18 Jun 2013
Album Review: Iasos – Celestial Soul Portrait
Near the tail-end of the 20th century, I played piano in the “house band” for a monthly coffeehouse in the suburbs of Atlanta. Since my bandmates often played acoustic twelve-string […]
14 Jun 2013
Album Review: Big Star – Nothing Can Hurt Me
On paper, it reads like textbook case in how not to succeed, how not to make a mark in musical history: release your debut on a label rife with distribution […]
20 May 2013
Album Review: Various Artists — The Birth of Soul Jazz
Early on into my jazz odyssey* of discovery, I found that although I very much enjoyed bop, swing, free and fusion, the style of jazz that resonated most for me […]
13 May 2013
Album Review: Oscar Pettiford — Baden-Baden 1958/1959
Not for the first time, Music Hound: Jazz has let me down. Jazz novitiate that I am, I was unfamiliar with the name Oscar Pettiford. So to that weighty […]
01 May 2013
Album Review: Various Artists — Drink a Toast to Innocence
As far back as the 1980s, the great philosopher Huey Lewis proclaimed that it’s “hip to be square.” Good thing, that, because like many of my rock’n’roll fan contemporaries, I […]
26 Apr 2013
Album Review: Nektar – Remember the Future
Album reissues can be funny things. Not haha-funny, but perplexing-funny. Take, for example, the case of Nektar’s breakthrough 1973 LP Remember the Future. Their most commercially successful album, it ranks […]