rawk Archive
30 Sep 2017
Eric Johnson: A Man and His Guitar
Guitarist Eric Johnson made his name as an electric guitarist; his work on early albums like 1986’s Tones and Ah Via Musicom (from 1990) established him as one of the […]
27 Sep 2017
The Melvins’ Buzz Osborne on Love, Death and Making It
The Melvins don’t like to do the same thing over and over again. Founded in 1983 in tiny Montesano Washington – two hours’ drive southwest from Seattle – the band […]
26 Sep 2017
Airpark Takes Off
Airpark grew out of the ashes of Apache Relay, a Nashville-based folk-rock group that released three well-received albums. Brothers Michael Ford Jr. and Ben Ford left the group to make […]
25 Sep 2017
In Praise of Uriah Heep
Critical consensus has not been overly kind to Uriah Heep. The British heavy progressive rockers released a string of commercially successful albums in the 1970s – and persist in greatly […]
23 Sep 2017
Hundred-word Reviews: September 2017
Time for some more hundred-word reviews; new music from many different genres. Linsey Alexander – Two Cats (Delmark) A lot of modern-day blues has a sterility that makes it the […]
22 Sep 2017
Mike Mills: R.E.M. and Beyond
I grew up just outside of Atlanta, Georgia, so when R.E.M. got together in the nearby college town of Athens and started making noises in 1980, my friends and I […]
20 Sep 2017
Stone Foxes’ Blues Once Removed
The music of San Francisco-based rockers the Stone Foxes has one foot in classic blues, and the other in a modern, individual sound. The band has refined its approach across […]
19 Sep 2017
Steve Katz and His Rock ‘n’ Roll Stories
If one wished to chart a path through the folk, rock and pop landscape of the mid 1960s onward, one could do worse than to use the career of Steve […]
02 Sep 2017
Matthew Sweet on Tomorrow and Thereafter
Nearly six years passed between the release of Modern Art, Matthew Sweet’s 11th album, and 2017’s Tomorrow Forever. In the interim, the songwriter-guitarist released a third album of covers with […]
01 Sep 2017
Matthew Sweet: Tomorrow is Here (Part 2)
Continued from Part One… Crowd funding an album is a new experience for Matthew Sweet, and so far it’s been a very positive experience. The campaign for Tomorrow Forever took […]