new release Archive
01 Dec 2014
DVD Review: Very Extremely Dangerous
There are antiheroes, and there are antiheroes. One supposes that Jerry McGill is one. He certainly possesses a primary prerequisite: a worldview that measures everyone and everything though the whatt’s-in-it-for-me […]
28 Nov 2014
Album Review: A Kool Kat Kristmas, Vol. 2
It’s that time of year again. In the USA, at least, the days after Thanksgiving is the unofficial kickoff of the Christmas season. And every year about this time, I […]
27 Nov 2014
A Thanksgiving Feast of Mini-reviews
Customarily, I take Thanksgiving Day off from posting to the blog (it’s one of very few days in which I do that). In fact I generally write the pieces days […]
26 Nov 2014
Album Review: The Movements — Like Elephants II
Less than a year after releasing Like Elephants I (reviewed separately), The Movements came back with 2014’s Like Elephants II. And the two discs truly are of a piece: sonically […]
25 Nov 2014
Album Review: The Movements — Like Elephants I
Every so often an album comes along that really pushes all of the right buttons with me. And as with most listeners, for me, what exactly those buttons are constitutes […]
24 Nov 2014
Book Review: Who Killed Mister Moonlight?
David J (Haskins) came to fame as a member of goth-rockers Bauhaus, and went on to success with Love and Rockets, solo releases and sideman duties with such greats as […]
20 Nov 2014
Album Review: Casual Strangers — Casual Strangers
A fellow music lover and good friend of mine is quite wary of what one might call deceptive packaging in music. You know, that thing where a band says that […]
19 Nov 2014
Album Review: Abelardo Barroso with Orquesta Sensación — Cha Cha Cha
Full disclosure, right up front: I know next to nothing about Cuban jazz. I enjoyed Kirsty MacColl‘s ventures into the genre, and I’ve long had a special place in my […]
18 Nov 2014
Album Review: Midge Ure — Fragile
In my last review, I took a look at a new release from Colin Hay, an artist who came to prominence in the early 1980s with his group Men at […]
17 Nov 2014
Album Review: Colin Hay — Man @ Work
If you’re a pop music listener of a certain age, you remember Men at Work. Smiling, photogenic darlings of early MTV, they broke through in that early period of the […]