rawk Archive
06 Feb 2018
The Wombats Make Lemonade Out of Lemons
Since releasing 2007’s A Guide to Love, Loss & Desperation, rock trio the Wombats have been building a dedicated following. The Liverpool, England group scored in the U.K. and Europe […]
03 Feb 2018
Album Review: Oddnote — Oddnote
Heavy, riff-laden power rock arguably first reared its head in the late 1960s, with the likes of Blue Cheer, Iron Butterfly and Led Zeppelin. But the 1970s the formula was […]
03 Feb 2018
Album Review: Eric Anders — Eleven Nine
It’s often said that the 1960s were the Golden Age of protest music. By the end of that decade, times had changed. The thinking goes that after the disillusionment of […]
01 Feb 2018
Gary Numan: Adventures in Dystopia, Part Three
Continued from Part Two… [Numan continues his his response to Bill Kopp’s question about soundtrack projects] What I’m trying to do as I get older is to try to make […]
31 Jan 2018
Gary Numan: Adventures in Dystopia, Part Two
Continued from Part One… Are you ultimately optimistic or pessimistic about humanity’s future? I’m optimistic, actually. Again, to go back to the Paris Accords, I think that is a remarkable […]
30 Jan 2018
Gary Numan: Adventures in Dystopia, Part One
When Gary Numan worked his way into the collective public consciousness in 1979 with his worldwide smash single “Cars,” he presented an icy, detached, robotic and ever dour persona. The […]
25 Jan 2018
The Blasters: Still Making American Music
At a time when rock music was taking a turn away from bloated arena rock toward stripped-down punk (and its commercial successor, new wave), the Blasters came onto the national […]
24 Jan 2018
Gin Blossoms: ‘New Miserable Experience’ at 25, Part Two
Continued from Part One… With a title that wryly referenced the two-part reaction the band was getting from fans, Congratulations … I’m Sorry would reach #10 on Billboard‘s album charts, […]
23 Jan 2018
Gin Blossoms: ‘New Miserable Experience’ at 25, Part One
Guitarist Scott Johnson almost missed out on a career path that saw him taking over for the lead guitarist in a band right as it broke through. Had he not […]
22 Jan 2018
A Look Back at Traffic’s ‘Mr. Fantasy’
This essay first appeared in Best Classic Bands. Singer and multi-instrumentalist Steve Winwood was mere days short of his 19th birthday when he formed Traffic with guitarist Dave Mason, drummer […]