new release Archive
09 Mar 2016
Album Mini-review: The Besnard Lakes — A Coliseum Complex Museum
File Next to: Flaming Lips, Polyphonic Spree, Rain Parade Long song titles, albums with epic names, and a gauzy space-rock vibe are the hallmarks of this Montréal group, newly expanded […]
08 Mar 2016
Album Review: Joe “King” Carrasco y Los Side FX – Chiliando
Those listeners who dug deeper than the commercial pap foisted upon us by Top 40 radio in the 1980s discovered something called college rock (also known as alternative rock). The […]
07 Mar 2016
Album Review: Blowfly — 77 Rusty Trombones
Warning: this review may not be suitable for readers under the age of, I dunno, let’s say…twenty-one. And the subject of the review – Blowfly‘s final album, 77 Rusty Trombones […]
01 Mar 2016
Colin Hay: Man Still at Work with “Next Year People”
Anyone who came of age in the early 1980s – anyone who ever watched MTV back when they showed music videos, for that matter – is familiar with Men at […]
29 Feb 2016
Album Review: Arthur Lee / Love — Coming Through to You: The Live Recordings (1970-2004)
With the (both critically and commercially) belated realization by the music world-at-large that Love‘s 1967 album Forever Changes is a classic came an unfortunate misconception. That was the idea that […]
25 Feb 2016
Hundred-word Reviews for February 2016, Part 4
Tuneful rock, pop, and rock/pop is the theme of today’s set of hundred-word reviews. All are recent releases of new music. Hurricane#1 – Find What You Love and Let it […]
24 Feb 2016
Hundred-word Reviews for February 2016, Part 3
Today’s five hundred-word reviews are all in the jazz category. All new music, too. Jim Clayton – Lenny Jumps In Soulful, piano-led jazz pop is the purview of Jim Clayton […]
23 Feb 2016
Hundred-word Reviews for February 2016, Part 2
Today’s hundred-word reviews focus on a variety of rock-oriented releases; all are (more or less) current. The Sideshow Tragedy – Capital As a rule – at least to my mind […]
22 Feb 2016
Hundred-word Reviews for February 2016, Part 1
Once again, it’s time for some hundred-word reviews. This first set spotlights five archival releases loosely falling into the prog subgenre. Greg Lake & Geoff Downes – Ride the Tiger […]
19 Feb 2016
DVD Review: Jaco
I’m not sure that the casual music fan even knows who the hell Jaco Pastorius was. Certainly among musicians, his is a name that’s revered: even if you’re not into […]