rawk Archive
12 Sep 2016
Album Mini-review: Waiting for Henry — Town Called Patience
File next to: Jayhawks, Wilco, Gin Blossoms Inside the college rock movement of the 1980s, there was a kind of proto-alt-country vibe that informed later groups like Wilco and Old […]
06 Sep 2016
Album Review: David Brookings and the Average Lookings – s/t
Power pop is a musical genre for true believers, artists and listeners alike. Relentlessly upbeat – even when the subject matter is melancholy – power pop charges ahead, determinedly uninterested […]
05 Sep 2016
Album Mini-review: The Arcs — Yours, Dreamily
File Next to: Dennis Coffey, Tame Impala, Ty Segall Though I’m not hostile to their music in any way, I’ve remained largely immune to the charms of the Black Keys. […]
02 Sep 2016
The Get Right Band: Taking Charge
Having good songs isn’t enough; to make it in the post-label world of the music industry today, artists have to supplement their musical prowess with an understanding of how to […]
01 Sep 2016
Album Mini-review: Bun E. Carlos — Greetings from Bunezuela!
File next to: Guided by Voices, Cheap Trick, Paul Revere and the Raiders In the wake of a confusing and bitter divorce from his band of many decades, former Cheap […]
01 Sep 2016
Album Mini-review: Bubblegum Lemonade — Beard on a Bike
File next to: Television Personalities, Jonathan Richman, The La’s With a simple, straightforward DIY approach, this Glasgow group named after a Cass Elliot album makes winsome, unaffected pop. Their gentle […]
31 Aug 2016
Peter Frampton: Somethin’s (Still) Happening
Peter Frampton has decades of experience dealing with misconceptions. The rock star responsible for the massively popular 1976 double LP Frampton Comes Alive has long since come to terms with […]
30 Aug 2016
Album Review: The Scientists — A Place Called Bad
For American music consumers in the late 1970s and early ’80s, Australia may as well have been in another galaxy as on the other side of the globe; in those […]
26 Aug 2016
The Edgar (W)interview, Part 2
Continued from Part One … Dan Hartman was also an original member of The Edgar Winter Group; he was with the band 1972-75. Winter says that “Dan was the first […]
25 Aug 2016
The Edgar (W)interview, Part 1
Edgar Winter was one of the most popular rock artists of the 1970s. From his solo debut – 1970’s Entrance – through his first album of the next decade (Standing […]