new release Archive
06 May 2014
Album Review: Speed the Plough – The Plough & the Stars
Here’s a career retrospective from a band that had up to now escaped my notice, despite having a highly-regarded career that spans more than three decades. A gentle folk-laced sound […]
05 May 2014
Album Review: The Grip Weeds – Inner Grooves
Longtime fans of The Who may agree that despite its piecemeal nature, Odds and Sods ranks among their best efforts. Freed from the constraints of a unifying thematic approach, that […]
02 May 2014
Album Review: Marshall Holland and the Etceteras
The name of this act – Marshall Holland and the Etceteras is a rock-pop red herring: every sound you’ll hear on this delightful record was produced by Holland himself. The […]
01 May 2014
Album Review: Various – A Psych Tribute to The Doors
Tribute albums can go any number of ways: they can showcase new takes on old music, they can provide a way for young or relatively unknown bands to use classic […]
30 Apr 2014
Album Review: Narada Michael Walden – Thunder
Polymath Narada Michael Walden is a giant in many fields: a monster drummer in the fusion, progressive, jazz and funk fields, he’s also a highly accomplished songwriter who’s penned hits […]
25 Apr 2014
Album Review: Jimbo Mathus — Dark Night of the Soul
I can make no legitimate claim to an ability to define Americana. Like the former chief justice said about another art form, I know it when I, um, hear it. […]
23 Apr 2014
Album Review: Jaco Pastorius – Modern American Music…Period! The Criteria Sessions
This week, I’m quite busy attending Moogfest 2014 here in Asheville NC, the adopted of hometown of both myself and the late Dr. R.A. Moog, for whom the five day […]
21 Apr 2014
Ask Me Some Questions: The Graham Parker Interview, Part 4
Continued from Part Three… Bill Kopp: As much as I love your songwriting, two of my favorite tunes of yours have always been “Hold Back the Night” and “I Want […]
18 Apr 2014
Ask Me Some Questions: The Graham Parker Interview, Part 3
Continued from Part Two… Bill Kopp: As the new Ask Me No Questions documentary points out, you parted ways with The Rumour after The Up Escalator (1980), but with the […]
17 Apr 2014
Ask Me Some Questions: The Graham Parker Interview, Part 2
Continued from Part One… Bill Kopp: In the new documentary film Don’t Ask Me Questions, you come off very authentically as a sensitive, soft-spoken individual. But back in the 80s, […]