new release Archive
02 Aug 2013
Album Review: Photon Band — Pure Photonic Matter Volume 1
Sometimes an album’s opening track is a red herring. That’s the case with “Thought Crimes (Part 1),” the first cut on Photon Band‘s Pure Photonic Matter Volume 1. While a […]
01 Aug 2013
Album Review: Stuck In Love, The Writers Playlist
The 2012 theatrical release Stuck in Love somehow completely escaped my notice. In fact I still haven’t seen it, and know virtually nothing about it other than what I’ve read […]
26 Jul 2013
Album Review: Deniz Tek – Detroit
The American city of Detroit, Michigan has been in the news quite a bit these last few years. The urban decay and financial woes have often overshadowed the city’s proud […]
25 Jul 2013
Album Review: Nektar – Time Machine
In 2013, there aren’t all that many bands making progressive rock of the sort that walked the Earth in the first half of the 1970s. But while the popular thinking […]
23 Jul 2013
Album Review: Soft Machine Legacy – Burden of Proof
Readers of rock history will occasionally stumble across references to the “Canterbury scene,” a construct of music journalists that – in real terms – hardly happened at all. But the […]
22 Jul 2013
Album Review: The Three O’Clock – The Hidden World Revealed
The whole so-called “paisley underground” scene happened during my college years. Like many of my generation, I had expanded my listening experiences beyond classic rock into what would eventually be […]
19 Jul 2013
Album Review: The Swimming Pool Q’s – The A&M Years
The music scene likes its labels, it it has always been thus. It’s the rare band that defies easy categorization and still enjoys some measure of commercial success; one has […]
17 Jul 2013
July Capsule Reviews, #2 of 3
Here are four more capsule reviews that fulfill my twin goal of (a) clearing off my desk and (b) getting the word out about some music you’d almost certainly otherwise […]
16 Jul 2013
Album Review: Various Artists — The South Side of Soul Street
Not meant to diminish in any way the staggering contribution Stax made to popular music, but that Memphis label was not the be-all and end-all for quality Southern soul music […]
15 Jul 2013
A Quick Jazz Vinyl Update
Three titles released on the Jazzhaus label last fall are now available on vinyl as well: Legends Live: Dizzy Gillespie Quintet – Liederhalle Stuttgart November 29, 1961 Legends Live: Albert […]