new release Archive
03 Mar 2014
Hundred-word Reviews: DVDs
Reviewing DVDs takes more time than albums, since when previewing them, I can’t do much else than sit there and watch. So it takes me awhile to get to DVDs. […]
21 Feb 2014
Here Come the Small Faces, Part Three
Continued from Part Two… Ian McLagan relates an amusing story, one that illustrates his old band’s far-reaching influence. “When working on The Small Faces DVD a few years ago, I […]
20 Feb 2014
Here Come the Small Faces, Part Two
Continued from Part One… Kenney Jones believes that The Small Faces‘ four-way collaborative process affected the songs to a large degree. “A lot of ideas…if I was saying something, it […]
19 Feb 2014
Here Come the Small Faces, Part One
The 1960s were a staggeringly fertile period for pop music. And – thanks in no small part to the success of The Beatles – a disproportionate (though completely deserved) share […]
11 Feb 2014
Yuck’s “Glow & Behold” — Shoegaze Meets Melody (Part Two)
Continued from Part One… The first record was self-produced; for Glow & Behold, the band chose to work with Chris Coady, who’s worked with other indie-styled artists like Smith Westerns, […]
10 Feb 2014
Yuck’s “Glow & Behold” — Shoegaze Meets Melody (Part One)
In October 2013, London/New York-based Yuck released Glow & Behold, their second album. And while a “cold” listen to it – as in, using ears that had never heard their […]
07 Feb 2014
Hundred Word Reviews: February 2014, Part Three
I’m making progress in bringing my the contents of my in-box down to a manageable size, but there are still so many albums deserving of coverage that I’ll be doing […]
06 Feb 2014
Hundred Word Reviews: February 2014, Part Two
As part of my continuing effort to thin the pile of to-be-reviewed CDs on my desk – and that’s after culling all the ones I’ve decided not to cover – […]
05 Feb 2014
Hundred Word Reviews: February 2014, Part One
The backlog of music here at Musoscribe World Headquarters has gotten massive; it’s nearly overwhelming. Anyone who tells you that there’s no good new music out there clearly doesn’t deserve […]
24 Jan 2014
Nik Turner: Mystical Interdimensional Space Gypsy (Part Three)
Continued from Part Two… Bill Kopp: You’ve come a long way from the beginning when it wasn’t about technical proficiency… Nik Turner: But I’ve become technical just through practicing. I […]