new release Archive
27 Apr 2017
Jon Stickley Trio: Clear, Present, and Slightly Dangerous
Despite a solid foundation in bluegrass and old-time music, the Jon Stickley Trio has never allowed itself to be boxed in by the confines of mountain music. On its latest […]
25 Apr 2017
Steve Hackett Discusses “The Night Siren” (Part Two)
Continued from Part One… BILL KOPP: One of the things I’ve found sort of curiously interesting about him is that his career trajectory is a little bit like Phil Collins: […]
24 Apr 2017
Steve Hackett Discusses ‘The Night Siren” (Part One)
During his time with Genesis, guitarist Steve Hackett released one solo album, 1975’s Voyage of the Acolyte. That album featured two of his then-current band mates – bassist Mike Rutherford […]
20 Apr 2017
Alejandro Escovedo Continues His Musical Exploration
Throughout the course of his long and musically varied career, Alejandro Escovedo has explored many musical forms: punk, country, rock and more. In 1998 influential music magazine No Depression named […]
19 Apr 2017
Chicano Batman: It’s Playtime
The style of music known as “psychedelic soul” enjoyed an all-too-brief heyday in the late 1960s. Deftly fusing elements of African American soul and the dreamier end of psychedelic rock, […]
13 Apr 2017
Album Mini-review: Wild Adriatic — Feel
File next to: The Heavy, The New Mastersounds, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings This NYC-based trio describes its music as “power soul,” and for once a genre label is dead-on […]
13 Apr 2017
Album Mini-review: Steve Hackett — The Night Siren
File next to: IQ, Genesis, Marillion Back in his days as Genesis’ guitarist, Steve Hackett was somewhat reined in as far as expressing himself on guitar. The progressive rock group’s […]
12 Apr 2017
Album Mini-review: Rhiannon Giddens — Freedom Highway
File next to: Dave Rawlings, Gillian Welch, Mary Gauthier Grammy Award winner Rhiannon Giddens is the well-deserved darling of the burgeoning Americana movement. As a person of color, Giddens adds […]
12 Apr 2017
Album Mini-review: R. Stevie Moore and Jason Falkner — Make it Be
File next to: Martin Newell, The Orange Peels, Fountains of Wayne With output that makes Guided by Voices’ Robert Pollard look like Boston’s Tom Scholz, lo-fi hero R. Stevie Moore […]
10 Apr 2017
Album Mini-review: The Godfathers — A Big Bad Beautiful Noise
File next to: The Stranglers, Midnight Oil, Mekons From the slashing opening chord – followed in quick succession by a thunderous and insistent bass line – it’s clear that The […]