new release Archive
27 Oct 2014
DVD Review: Ian Anderson – Thick As A Brick Live in Iceland
In 2012, Jethro Tull leader Ian Anderson mounted a tour to promote his latest solo album, Thick As a Brick 2: What Ever Happened to Gerald Bostock? The tour and […]
24 Oct 2014
Back to Bassics: A Chat with Tony Levin
Among musicians, Tony Levin is as close as once can come to being a household name. Among the wider public, he’s not well known at all. That may be because […]
23 Oct 2014
Book Review: Wounds to Bind
The 1960s music scene was populated with people who – if they survived – have tales to tell. First-hand witnesses to (or participants in) the social and cultural upheavals that […]
22 Oct 2014
Concert Preview: Brownout Presents Brown Sabbath
Shine a light into some of rock history’s less well-lit corners, and you’ll discover some strange yet intriguing detours. Among the most remarkable of these is the conceptual mash-up: combining […]
21 Oct 2014
Jason D. Williams: A Mixing Bowl Combined With a Sponge (Part Two)
Continued from Part One… By 1993, as the first signing of the reactivated Sun Records, Jason D. Williams released Wild. Sessions for that disc took place in the storied studio […]
20 Oct 2014
Jason D. Williams: A Mixing Bowl Combined With a Sponge (Part One)
Though his in-the-grand-tradition bio sheet asserts that Jason D. Williams first played a piano at age three, when I ask him about it, he concedes that his serious interest in […]
17 Oct 2014
Album Review: Halloween Nuggets
Halloween’s coming: October 31 is a mere two weeks away. Personally, it’s my favorite holiday: for several years I lived on one of my city’s busiest residential streets, the go-to […]
16 Oct 2014
Album Review: Caleb Hawley
While it might come off a bit melodramatic to say so, sometimes I experience some emotional rollercoasterism when receiving new music in my mailbox. Case in point: not long ago […]
14 Oct 2014
Book Review: The Next Elvis
There have been countless books written about Elvis Presley and/or the early years of Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee. But a new book by someone who was there (for a […]
13 Oct 2014
DVD Review: Money for Nothing
I approached this DVD with more than a bit of trepidation: would the filmmakers attempt to bestow great and weighty cultural importance upon the music video format? Or would they […]