new release Archive
12 Jan 2022
Album Review: Memphissippi Sounds — Welcome to the Land
The blues featured guitar-and-drum duos long before that lean and mean lineup became a popular approach in other musical idioms. So there’s a long and proud tradition for what Memphissippi […]
10 Jan 2022
Album Review: Kasim Sulton – Kasim 2021
Though his list of musical credits is long and impressive – work with Cherry Vanilla, Meat Loaf, Joan Jett, Blue Öyster Cult and many others – if you know the […]
09 Jan 2022
Album Review: Low Level Clouds — s/t
There was a time, a half century ago, when the concept of one-man (one-person, really) “bands” was quite novel. Working in the studio and taking advantage of an impressive dexterity […]
08 Jan 2022
Album Review: Sneezy — Open Doors
A funk/jam band based in Chicago, Sneezy has released Open Doors as its third album. Don’t be put off by the jam label; while elements of that noodlesome, unfocused style […]
07 Jan 2022
Album Review: Robby Steinhardt — Not in Kansas Anymore
Robby Steinhardt is best known as violinist for Kansas. He passed away recently, but not before completing an ambitious project. Titled in a perhaps too on-the-nose manner, Not in Kansas […]
06 Jan 2022
Album Review: The Beatles and India
Much has been written about The Beatles’ fateful trip to Rishikesh, India, but comparatively little in the way of official documentation of the excursion has surfaced in the ensuing 50-plus […]
05 Jan 2022
Volbeat Continues to Build its Fan Base by Defying Expectations
This feature appeared previously in Rock On magazine. For 20 years and running, Copenhagen, Denmark-based band Volbeat has had it both ways: the popular group has honed its brand of […]
04 Jan 2022
Album Review: Nick Frater — Earworms
There’s an ineffable character that connects bands like Cheap Trick, Material Issue, The Raspberries, Matthew Sweet, Ben Folds and a select few others. Their various approaches to music may not […]
31 Dec 2021
The PFM Bonus Interview, Part 3 of 3
Continued from Part Two… Bill Kopp: Have you given any thought to, once you play outside of Italy, as you do these songs, whether you’ll sing them in Italian or […]
30 Dec 2021
The PFM Bonus Interview, Part 2 of 3
Continued from Part One… Bill Kopp: Tell me about the album’s instrumental opener, “Worlds Beyond.” Are those all real classical instruments, or are there sampled sounds mixed in with it? […]