new release Archive
21 Jun 2020
Album Review: The Harmed Brothers — Across the Waves
Though it’s billed as rock/Americana, The Harmed Brothers’ fifth album Across the Waves is better described as heartland rock. There’s twang in the music to be sure, but the earnest […]
20 Jun 2020
Album Review: The Tnek Jazz Quintet Plays the Music of Sam Jones
Bassist Sam Jones was an important figure in hard bop and soul jazz of the 1950s and beyond. Alternatively known as “Cannon’s Theme,” his composition “Unit 7” was a showcase […]
19 Jun 2020
Book Review: The Ballad of Tommy LiPuma
Author: Ben Sidran 274pp Nardis Books One might think that an insider tale such as the biography of a record producer wouldn’t have wide appeal. That thinking goes that unless […]
18 Jun 2020
Album Review: Nat Turner Rebellion – Laugh to Keep From Crying
I’ve written of similar observations before; here I am doing it once again. It amazes me to no end that so many years after the fact, never-before-heard recordings surface, and […]
15 Jun 2020
30 Days Out, June 2020 #2: Hearts Gone South, Angel Olsen, Natural Born Leaders, The Get Right Band
If you’re at all like me, you may have noticed this phenomenon: when you take on a new task, you stumble as you learn your way through it. And by […]
14 Jun 2020
Album Review: Willie Nile — New York at Night
Way back when Bob Seger finally broke through nationally, much was written about how it took him many years to become an overnight sensation. And he’s merely one example of […]
13 Jun 2020
Album Review: Lane Thaw — Falling off the Planet
Existing outside the world of rock ‘n’ roll, Lane Thaw’s Falling off the Planet is the kind of record that suggests an alternate timeline, one in which cult artists like […]
12 Jun 2020
Album Review: Todd Rundgren’s Utopia – Benefit for Moogy Klingman
After the success of his double LPs Something/Anything? (1972) and Todd (1974) as well as the double-album in all but pressing A Wizard/A True Star (1973), Todd Rundgren decided to […]
11 Jun 2020
Album Review: The Explorers Club — s/t
In my previous review I, um, explored To Sing and Be Born Again, the new all-covers album from Jason Brewer’s The Explorers Club. The group isn’t exactly what one would […]
10 Jun 2020
Album Review: The Explorers Club — To Sing and Be Born Again
For more than a decade now, The Explorers Club have been bringing their brand of ear candy pop to listeners. Essentially a vehicle for songwriter, musician, arranger and producer Jason […]