rawk Archive
22 Jun 2017
The Allah-Las: Record Store Days
The Allah-Las make original music that evokes the shimmering, melodic end of mid-to-late 1960s psychedelic scene. But because the members of the Los Angeles-based group write and perform their own […]
21 Jun 2017
Album Mini-review: Siena Root — A Dream of Lasting Peace
File next to: Deep Purple, Uriah Heep, Iron Butterfly When Siena Root debuted with 2004’s A New Day Dawning, their music displayed a solid fixation with heavy, 1970s-style rock. The […]
21 Jun 2017
Album Mini-review: Peter Hook & the Light — Unknown Pleasures Tour 2012
Peter Hook was the bassist, multi-instrumentalist and (occasional) singer in two of the more influential bands of the last several decades. These days he’s capitalizing on the enduring popularity of […]
14 Jun 2017
Album Mini-review: Slowdive — Slowdive
File next to: Pink Floyd, Cocteau Twins, My Bloody Valentine How much difference does 22 years make? That will be most listeners’ first question upon learning that shoegaze heroes Slowdive […]
14 Jun 2017
Album Mini-review: Derrick Anderson — A World of My Own
File next to: Redd Kross, Chris von Sneidern From a largely heretofore unknown quarter comes a winner of an album in a genre that doesn’t get enough appreciation. Up to […]
12 Jun 2017
For Ian Anderson, It’s Not Just Another Day at the Office
Jethro Tull started out as a blues band; the group’s 1968 debut album This Was drew to a large degree upon jazz and blues styles. But under the leadership of […]
11 Jun 2017
Album Review: The Best of Big Star
As fate would have it, here’s a special (and exceedingly rare) Sunday blog post. — bk File under famine-then-feast. On their original release, the three albums by Memphis’ Big Star […]
10 Jun 2017
Book Reviews: Two by Rev. Keith A. Gordon
Today I present a special Saturday blog post. — bk And I thought I was prolific! One of the leading lights among my music journo brethren has released yet another […]
09 Jun 2017
Album Review: Evolfo — Last of the Acid Cowboys
File next to: Black Keys, King Khan & the Shrines The album’s title might conjure images of – depending on one’s musical frame of reference – the Flying Burrito Brothers […]
02 Jun 2017
Dengue Fever: Holidays in Cambodia
Music historians often observe that the Beatles-led, so-called British Invasion was an example of British musicians absorbing American influences, and then serving that music back to Americans. In a sense, […]