rawk Archive
09 Mar 2017
Album Review: Field Trip — Horror Vacui
File next to: Flaming Lips, Beach House, Roxy Music Lush aural textures and inviting melodies are the hallmarks of the digital-only debut album from this NYC five-piece band. Gauzy production […]
03 Mar 2017
Coffey Talk: A Chat with Guitar Legend Dennis Coffey (Part 2)
Continued from Part One … Dennis Coffey was part of a new venture, the Producer’s Workshop, led by legendary Motown bassist James Jamerson. As he recalls in Guitars, Bars and […]
02 Mar 2017
Coffey Talk: A Chat with Guitar Legend Dennis Coffey (Part 1)
The 2002 film Standing in the Shadows of Motown introduced viewers to The Funk Brothers. That name – originally coined by session drummer William “Benny” Benjamin – was retroactively applied […]
24 Feb 2017
Andrew Scotchie’s Birthday Bash: Party and Tribute
Andrew Scotchie‘s Birthday Bash began three years ago, celebrating the Asheville singer-guitarist’s 21st birthday. The event has additional significance to Scotchie, but he’s kept that part of the story largely […]
13 Feb 2017
New Albums from Larry, Tracey and Murali Coryell
There was a time in the late 1960s and early ’70s when it looked as if Larry Coryell would break out as the Next Big Thing. A fiendishly gifted guitarist […]
02 Feb 2017
Album Mini-review: Mike Watt — “Ring Spiel” Tour ’95
File next to: Meat Puppets, Mission of Burma, Sugar Gravelly-voiced bassist Watt first made his name as the bassist in The Minutemen, and after that group’s end in the wake […]
01 Feb 2017
Album Review: Seven Simons — Post
Athens, Georgia was fertile musical ground in the 1980s. Looking beyond the biggest names – R.E.M., the B-52s, Pylon and (briefly) Matthew Sweet – one could discover a vibrant music […]
26 Jan 2017
Album Mini-review: TimLee3 — Tin, Man
File next to: The Blasters, X, Long Ryders TimLee3 is the band started by former Windbreakers guitarist and his bass-playing wife, Susan Bauer Lee. Last year’s 33-1/3 was another excellent […]
26 Jan 2017
Album Mini-review: Pink Floyd — The Early Years, 1967-1972, Cre/ation
File next to: Genesis, Led Zeppelin, Yes Unless one is both the hardest of hardcore Pink Floyd fan and wealthy, The Early Years Box Set probably isn’t under consideration (it […]
25 Jan 2017
North Carolina’s Little Drummer Girl
There’s some hidden rock’n’roll history in Western North Carolina. Back in the 1960s, diminutive teenager Theresa Crouch was that rarest of creatures: a girl drummer in a rock band. As […]