new release Archive
08 Sep 2014
Album Review: The Legal Matters
My friend Bruce Brodeen occasionally endures some good-natured ribbing for those mini-reviews he penned in his NotLame mail order catalogs of the 90s. If you viewed his writing a certain […]
04 Sep 2014
Album Review: The Mojo Gurus — Who Asked Ya?
Once upon a time, rock was rock. In the days before popular music fell prey to market segmentation, the catch-all term of rock conjured – at least to some extent […]
29 Aug 2014
Album Review: Hedersleben — Die Neuen Welten
According to our friends over at Wikipedia, krautrock is defined as “a form of rock and electronic music that originated in Germany in the late 1960s, with a tendency towards […]
28 Aug 2014
Album Review: Rog & Pip — Our Revolution
I’ve just stumbled upon what sounds like the greatest album Sweet ever made. The thing is, most of the tunes on Our Revolution have gone unreleased – or have been […]
26 Aug 2014
Never Had It Better: A Chat with James Lowe of The Electric Prunes (Part Two)
Continued from Part One… Bill Kopp: In 2012 I wrote a blog entry in which I suggested that Syd Barrett may have – consciously or otherwise – nicked the intro […]
25 Aug 2014
Never Had It Better: A Chat with James Lowe of The Electric Prunes (Part One)
In that heady summer of 1967, one of the songs that captured and embodied the zeitgeist was “I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night),” a fuzzed-out psychedelic miniature masterpiece […]
18 Aug 2014
Album Review: The Soul of Designer Records
From a certain point of view, gospel music can be pigeonholed as a bunch of love songs all written to or about one person. But as with any music genre, […]
15 Aug 2014
Hundred Word Reviews for August 2014, Part 5
My week-long run of hundred-word reviews wraps up with five new and recently-released jazz albums. Michael Bellar and The As-is Ensemble – Oh No Oh Wow Keyboards anchor this varied […]
14 Aug 2014
Hundred Word Reviews for August 2014, Part 4
This set of five 100-word reviews focuses on new music, some of which is from familiar names; others might be new to you. All are worthwhile and enthusiastically recommended. Murali […]
13 Aug 2014
Hundred Word Reviews for August 2014, Part 3
Five new releases are the focus of this clutch of hundred-word reviews. Analog Son – Analog Son The name might conjure mental visions of a synthesizer outfit, but the sounds […]