new release Archive
01 Jun 2016
Album Mini-review: Janiva Magness — Love Wins Again
File next to: Bonnie Raitt, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Shemekia Copeland Though she’s been making albums for decades now, blues vocal powerhouse Janiva Magness was initially an interpreter of other composers’ […]
27 May 2016
Max Hatt / Edda Glass: Whisper, Don’t Shout
An unusual musical path led a Montana guitar-and-vocal duo to play bossa nova, open for Frank Zappa‘s son, win a songwriting contest and record their debut album in Asheville. But […]
24 May 2016
Album Review: Johnny Winter with Dr. John — Live in Sweden
There are countless recordings of Johnny Winter live onstage; they all exist at various points on the spectrum of legitimacy. A new archival release, Johnny Winter with Dr. John – […]
23 May 2016
Album Mini-review: Guided by Voices — Please Be Honest
File next to: The Who, Hüsker Dü, Sebadoh Robert Pollard‘s various Guided by Voices iterations have released some two dozen albums since their 1987 debut, a prodigious output that can […]
23 May 2016
Album Mini-review: Cheap Trick — Bang, Zoom, Crazy…Hello
File next to: The Move, Boston, Fountains of Wayne With Bang, Zoom, Crazy… Hello, the Rockford, Illinois, foursome Cheap Trick sticks to what they know: anthemic, melodic rock. The key […]
20 May 2016
Five Years in the Wilderness: The Return of Black Mountain
Nearly six years elapsed between Vancouver-based Black Mountain‘s 2011 album Wilderness Heart and their latest, the straightforwardly-named IV (like all their, albums, released on Jagjaguwar). “We sort of cautiously took […]
16 May 2016
Blues Vocalist Janiva Magness Opens Up on ‘Love Wins Again’
Though award-winning blues vocalist Janiva Magness has recorded a dozen albums to date (her latest, Love Wins Again, was released April 8), she came to songwriting long after her career […]
12 May 2016
New Jazz Archival Titles from Resonance/Elemental, Part 2
Continued from Part One… Stan Getz Quartet – Moments in Time The first of two releases chronicling tenor saxophonist Stan Getz’s May 1976 residency at San Francisco’s Keystone Korner, this […]
11 May 2016
New Jazz Archival Titles from Resonance/Elemental, Part 1
Lovers of the classic era in jazz and/or modern jazz owe a debt of gratitude to Zev Feldman. The head of a pair of modern-day jazz labels (Resonance and Elemental) […]
10 May 2016
Album Mini-review: Bob Mould — Patch the Sky
File next to: Hüsker Dü, Sugar, Dinosaur Jr. Bob Mould is that rarest of creatures: a songwriter who can write impassioned, heartfelt lyrics, wrap them inside ear-candy melodies, and deliver […]