new release Archive
15 Jul 2013
July Capsule Reviews, #1 of 3
Once again, it’s time here at Musoscribe World Headquarters for a batch of capsule reviews. The inbox keeps growing, and some worthy titles have begun to gather dust. So to […]
12 Jul 2013
Album Review: Bill Frisell — Big Sur
Avant-jazz. Atonal no-wave. Country. Noise rock. Americana. Those are just a few of the musical idioms within which guitarist Bill Frisell has worked in his thirty-plus years as a recording […]
11 Jul 2013
Album Review: Various Artists — Los Nuggetz: ’60s Garage & Psych from Latin America
During the first four or five years of this new century, there existed online a thriving collector/trading community, dedicated to sharing and disseminating obscure, forgotten and occasionally never-known-about-in-the-first place music […]
10 Jul 2013
EP Review: Drivin’ n’ Cryin’ — Songs from the Psychedelic Time Clock
In terms of delivering new music, Drivin’ n’ Cryin’ is employing a strategy not unlike that of Marshall Crenshaw. Instead of releasing an album after a couple years’ wait, both […]
05 Jul 2013
Pygmies, Green Bullets, and Shitty Amps: Getting Loopy with Randall Bramblett
Randall Bramblett began his professional musical career in the 1970s. Working solo and then as a member of Sea Level, Bramblett crafted songs that synthesized a long list of American […]
03 Jul 2013
Album Review: Live Kraut: Live Rock Explosions from the Heyday of Krautrock!
I discovered this internet thing about nineteen years ago. Ever since then – more so once I became Editor in Chief for a now-defunct print magazine, and even more so […]
02 Jul 2013
Album Review: Duke Ellington — Rare Live Recordings 1952-53
If your tastes include the work of Duke Ellington – one of the most important composers and bandleaders of the 20th century – then you might want to check […]
01 Jul 2013
Book Review: 400 Saturdays, An Anthology of Vinyl Folklore
It’s actually a great idea for a book. 400 Saturdays: An Anthology of Vinyl Folklore is described on its (exceedingly well-designed) cover thusly: “In the spirit of Studs Terkel‘s Working…an […]
28 Jun 2013
Hundred Word Reviews: June 2013
Here’s another installment in my occasional series of capsule reviews; this time ’round I’m focusing on new releases from long-established artists who nonetheless aren’t quite household names. My self-imposed limit […]
27 Jun 2013
Album Review: Nicholas Tremulis Orchestra – For the Baby Doll
In and of itself, eclecticism is neither a good nor bad characteristic. Consistency may in fact be (as Ralph Waldo Emerson sorta-said) the hobgoblin of a little mind, but it […]