new release Archive
14 Sep 2020
For Orgatroid, The ‘Future’ is Now
Electronic music is sometimes unfairly characterized as cold, sterile and lacking in emotion. But the music of Orgatroid – an Asheville duo of Jason Daniello and Jeffrey Richards – is […]
13 Sep 2020
Album Review: Staring Into Nothing – Love
The album opens with an understated track (“Winter”) that’s not especially indicative of where things will go musically. It’s part of a four-song suite, and “Spring” is (perhaps as expected) […]
12 Sep 2020
Album Review: Bonnie Whitmore – Last Will & Testament
Bonnie Whitmore earned her stripes as a bassist for a number of acclaimed Americana artists including Hayes Carll and Eliza Gilkyson. But if you know me and my writing to […]
11 Sep 2020
Album Review: Louis Armstrong – Live in France
One of the most important and influential figures in the music of the 20th century, Louis Armstrong had a recording career that spanned from the early 1920s through 1970, the […]
10 Sep 2020
Album Review: The Brothers Steve – #1
Following a proud rock ‘n’ roll tradition of misleading band names, The Brothers Steve aren’t brothers, and none is named Steve. The L.A.-based band plays its own brand of powerpop, […]
08 Sep 2020
Album Review: Tyler Keith – The Last Drag
Do you like rock ‘n’ roll? I mean the sweaty, greasy, sloppy, noisy stuff, the kind of music that gets your heart pumping and makes you want to get involved […]
04 Sep 2020
Second Verse, Better Than the First: The Choir Reunites (Part 3 of 3)
Continued from Part Two … Jim Bonfanti explains that it was the reunion of The Raspberries that would eventually lead to The Choir getting back together. “We were working on […]
03 Sep 2020
Second Verse, Better Than the First: The Choir Reunites (Part 2 of 3)
Continued from Part One … The Choir certainly knew how to rock hard; the group’s cover of The Kinks’ “David Watts” made that plain. But the musicians were at their […]
02 Sep 2020
Second Verse, Better Than the First: The Choir Reunites (Part 1 of 3)
Omnivore Recordings presents a live reunion of Cleveland late-’60s proto-progressive band Ask a casual rock fan if he or she has heard of The Choir, and you’re likely to get […]
31 Aug 2020
Album Review: The Hollywood Stars – Live on the Sunset Strip
In the mid 1970s, The Hollywood Stars were charting a musical path not wholly unlike Sweet: super-catchy bubblegum-meets-glam rock. But they didn’t earn success commensurate with the quality of their […]