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14 May 2013
Album Review: Donovan’s Brain – Turned Up Later
There’s a kind of powerpop that steers well clear of the candy-ass end of the spectrum, yet manages to avoid macho, posturing cockrock-iness. That sweet spot is where Donovan’s Brain […]
13 May 2013
Album Review: Oscar Pettiford — Baden-Baden 1958/1959
Not for the first time, Music Hound: Jazz has let me down. Jazz novitiate that I am, I was unfamiliar with the name Oscar Pettiford. So to that weighty […]
10 May 2013
Album Review: Greg Lake — Songs of a Lifetime
It’s been about a year since I made the trip to Durham NC to see Greg Lake in concert. In the run-up to that performance, I interviewed Greg, and while […]
09 May 2013
EP Review: Tin Cup Serenade — Tragic Songs of Hope
As I’ve chronicled elsewhere, my awakening to the charms of jazz is a relatively recent phenomenon. And as I wade into the deep waters of that genre, I find that […]
08 May 2013
The Orange Peels’ Adventures in Modern Recording (and Marketing, and Manufacturing, and…) Part Two
Continued from Part One… “And,” Clapp summarizes, “That’s what we’ve done ever since. We’re not going to become indebted to a label. If they want to help us out, and […]
07 May 2013
The Orange Peels’ Adventures in Modern Recording (and Marketing, and Manufacturing, and…) Part One
The Orange Peels have been releasing albums for sixteen years; Sun Moon is their fifth album. On all of their earlier albums, the cover art incorporated the color orange. Yet […]
02 May 2013
Album Review: Hymn for Her Presents Lucy and Wayne’s Smokin’ Flames
Rock’n’roll doesn’t have a long list of successful male-female duets; at least not ones that, y’know, rock. Other traditions have done well with the duet format: Porter Wagoner and Dolly […]
01 May 2013
Album Review: Various Artists — Drink a Toast to Innocence
As far back as the 1980s, the great philosopher Huey Lewis proclaimed that it’s “hip to be square.” Good thing, that, because like many of my rock’n’roll fan contemporaries, I […]
12 Apr 2013
Album Review: The Edgar Broughton Band — Live in Hamburg: The Fabrik Concert 1973
Greetings, gentle reader. If you’ve found your way here, I offer you my most heartfelt welcome. The odds were against you stumbling across this particular review by happenstance. What’s on […]
11 Apr 2013
Album Review: Conspiracy – Conspiracy Live
As the sole member of Yes to appear on every single album, Chris Squire has stayed quite busy these last several decades. Though he released but one solo album (1975’s […]