new release Archive
01 Sep 2016
Album Mini-review: Bubblegum Lemonade — Beard on a Bike
File next to: Television Personalities, Jonathan Richman, The La’s With a simple, straightforward DIY approach, this Glasgow group named after a Cass Elliot album makes winsome, unaffected pop. Their gentle […]
30 Aug 2016
Album Review: The Scientists — A Place Called Bad
For American music consumers in the late 1970s and early ’80s, Australia may as well have been in another galaxy as on the other side of the globe; in those […]
26 Aug 2016
The Edgar (W)interview, Part 2
Continued from Part One … Dan Hartman was also an original member of The Edgar Winter Group; he was with the band 1972-75. Winter says that “Dan was the first […]
25 Aug 2016
The Edgar (W)interview, Part 1
Edgar Winter was one of the most popular rock artists of the 1970s. From his solo debut – 1970’s Entrance – through his first album of the next decade (Standing […]
24 Aug 2016
Emitt Rhodes: Somewhere Over the Rainbow (Part 2)
Continued from Part One … Word has it that Emitt Rhodes does like his privacy. What that means in practical terms, I am told, is that when I telephone him […]
23 Aug 2016
Emitt Rhodes: Somewhere Over the Rainbow (Part 1)
In the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, the “great and powerful” title character is revealed to be a mere mortal. And while for some viewers the takeaway of that […]
22 Aug 2016
Album Mini-review: Velvet Crush — Pre-teen Symphonies
File next to: The Smithereens, Matthew Sweet, Teenage Fanclub If they didn’t scale the heights of commercial success that some of their contemporaries reached, it was no fault of Velvet […]
22 Aug 2016
Album Mini-review: The Amazing — Ambulance
File next to: The Cure, The Smiths, My Bloody Valentine In a way, The Amazing can be thought of as a side-project: guitarist Reine Fiske is the lead guitarist in […]
19 Aug 2016
A Band to Check Out: The Struts
The Struts are one of those groups that seem as if they’ve been around forever. Expertly channeling the glammy musical excess of Queen, the Derby, England quartet burst onto the […]
17 Aug 2016
Derek Trucks: No Ceiling in Sight (Part 3 / conclusion)
Continued from Part Two… Bill Kopp: I notice the collaborative nature of the songwriter credits on TTB albums. How does songwriting work in the band? Derek Trucks: This record went […]