new release Archive
24 Feb 2018
Album Review: Akshara — In Time
When it first came into the lexicon, the term world music made a kind of sense: though it’s laden with some unfortunate Eurocentric biases, the term was a way of […]
24 Feb 2018
Album Review: Jan Sturiale — Roadmaps
A classically-trained guitarist, Jan Sturiale expertly treads the fine line between tasty guitar instrumentals and ensemble jazz. On Roadmaps, the fourth album by the Italian guitarist/composer, there’s a wide-angle focus […]
14 Feb 2018
Don Bryant: This is All I Know (Part Three)
Continued from Part Two… Around that time, the Bo-Keys’ regular singer Percy Wiggins started having health issues that precluded his involvement in some live dates. “Percy was out of performing […]
13 Feb 2018
Don Bryant: This is All I Know (Part Two)
Continued from Part One… By the middle of the 1960s, the Four Kings had broken up, but Bryant remained as a vocalist with Mitchell. Between 1965 and 1969, Bryant released […]
12 Feb 2018
Don Bryant: This is All I Know (Part One)
Don Bryant started releasing soul 45s under his own name in 1965. But it wasn’t until nearly four years later that he’d finally record and release an album. A collection […]
11 Feb 2018
Album Review: Pocket Fishrmen – The Greatest Story Ever Told
Wow; here’s a weird one. Imagine, if you will, that Dead Kennedys were a comedy band. One from Austin, Texas. Now imagine that they stayed together for three decades, making […]
11 Feb 2018
Album Review: Fovea — Pencil Me In
The blippy synth lines that open “Boss Boy” suggest that Fovea’s Pencil Me In is going to be a synthpop album. But not; that impression is corrected after about, oh, […]
11 Feb 2018
Album Review: Helen Kelter Skelter — Melter
The members of the cleverly-named band Helen Kelter Skelter may not wish that it were so, but they may well be destined to be known as “that other band from […]
10 Feb 2018
Album Review: Henry Metal – War in Heaven
Heavy metal is perhaps the easiest of all rock forms to parody. Its often over-the top brutal riffage, growled vocals and martial tempos are ripe for ridicule. And that might […]
10 Feb 2018
Album Review: Delta Deep – East Coast Live
“Supergroup” is a term that gets bandied about so wantonly that it has become nearly meaningless. To their credit, the members of Delta Deep don’t bill themselves as one. But […]