new release Archive
05 Jun 2013
Album Review: The Del-Lords – Elvis Club
Sometimes, when you hear a band’s music, you get a sense of their worldview within the first few seconds. There’s the sort of artist whose work makes it clear that […]
04 Jun 2013
Album Review: The Vibrators – On the Guest List
One argument that’s endlessly trotted out is that 70s punk rock – especially the UK version of it – was a musical reaction to the self-important, overblown pomposity of much […]
31 May 2013
Album Review: Redtenbacher’s Funkestra – The Cooker
A very good friend of mine – a drummer and a serious student of music – has, in the last several years, become quite wary – cynical, almost – about […]
30 May 2013
Album Review: Man or Astro-Man? – Defcon 5…4…3…2…1
I often enjoy what one might call “high concept bands.” Our friends at open-source Wikipedia define the term this way: “…a term used to refer to an artistic work that […]
29 May 2013
Album Review: Days Between Stations – In Extremis
I truly mean no disrespect to the man, but experience has taught me not to get too excited about any musical project that involves Billy Sherwood. He’s clearly a talented […]
23 May 2013
Album Review: Tea Leaf Green — In the Wake
I count In the Wake as the latest entry in my Not What I Expected file. Tea Leaf Green are known in many quarters as a jam band; that in […]
22 May 2013
Hundred Word Reviews: Vinyl Roundup for May 2013
Here’s another installment in my occasional series of capsule reviews; this time ’round I’m focusing on vinyl releases. My self-imposed limit for this particular exercise is 100 words on each […]
21 May 2013
Album Review: Blue Cheer – Rocks Europe
They didn’t call it garage when ? And the Mysterians were playing “96 Tears.” They didn’t label it punk when The Stooges sang about “No Fun.” And they didn’t use […]
20 May 2013
Album Review: Various Artists — The Birth of Soul Jazz
Early on into my jazz odyssey* of discovery, I found that although I very much enjoyed bop, swing, free and fusion, the style of jazz that resonated most for me […]
15 May 2013
DVD Review: Last Shop Standing
Here’s a fun little film. While it has no narrator, Last Shop Standing most certainly has a narrative. Stringing together interviews of record shop owners from around the UK, the […]