rawk Archive
22 Apr 2018
Album Review: Ghostly Beard — Inward
Making the decision to maintain anonymity is a risky proposition for an artist. While doing so can create buzz, there’s the very real possibility of accusations of hype, potentially followed […]
20 Apr 2018
Album Review: Anywhere — Anywhere II
Anywhere is an aggregation of indie/underground artists who collectively make a psychedelic folk sound. But Anywhere doesn’t sound like acid-folk, though: there’s a solid rock foundation to the group’s music. […]
20 Apr 2018
Album Review: Richard Lloyd — Lodestones
Richard Lloyd is known to aficionados of cutting-edge 1970s music as one of two guitarists in Television, a band that combined the immediacy of punk with the virtuosity and musical […]
19 Apr 2018
Album Review: The Lurkers — Fulham Fallout
It’s been pointed out by numerous chroniclers of rock history that British punk of the late 1970s grew in large part (though not exclusively) out of the so-called “pub rock” […]
08 Apr 2018
EP Review: Ferentz and the Felons – Hudson County
Back in my day, EP was the designation for an extended play 45rpm record. In this context” extended” meant that the record had more than the standard two songs. Usually […]
07 Apr 2018
Album Review: Stax Singles Vol. 4: Rarities & the Best of the Rest
Beginning in the early 1990s, the labels owning the Stax/Volt catalog set about releasing impressive box sets of classic material from the venerated yet ultimately troubled Memphis record label. 1991 […]
06 Apr 2018
Album Review: More of the Monkees (Super Deluxe Edition)
Too often the Monkees have been dismissed, and called names like the Prefab Four. While it’s undeniable that the group was assembled by music and television executives looking to capitalize […]
04 Apr 2018
EP Review: Paul Maged — The Glass River
Alterna-rocker Paul Maged has been making albums for more than a decade now; his latest is a six-song EP called The Glass River. The songs vary widely: opening track “Gunz […]
03 Apr 2018
A Look Back at ‘Eric Clapton’s Rainbow Concert’
This feature originally appeared on BestClassicBands. As 1972 came to a close, guitarist Eric Clapton had been musically inactive for nearly two years. He enjoyed a burst of activity in […]
02 Apr 2018
A Look Back at Bob Dylan’s “Blood on the Tracks”
This feature originally appeared on BestClassicBands. By the time of 1975’s Blood on the Tracks, Bob Dylan had moved through a succession of distinct musical personae. Beginning his career as […]