rawk Archive
09 May 2016
Album Mini-review: Suuns – Hold/Still
File Next to: Cocteau Twins, Clan of Xymox, Depeche Mode Though there’s a dark and doomy undercurrent to the songs on Hold/Still, the group adheres to the basic tenets of […]
22 Apr 2016
Five Quick Ones
About once a month I like to visit my “in for review” shelf and pull out some titles that I’ve been meaning to get to for some time. For whatever […]
21 Apr 2016
Daniel Martin Moore and the Art of Poise
For his first few solo albums, Kentucky singer-songwriter Daniel Martin Moore crafted an intimate and often spare soundscape; listeners could feel as if they were in the room with him. […]
20 Apr 2016
Album Mini-review: Quilt — Plaza
File next to: Woods, Fresh & Onlys, Mikal Cronin With Plaza, Boston-based Quilt dials back the more overt psychedelic/garage textures of their first two full-lengths. Keyboardist Anna Fox Rochinski remains […]
15 Apr 2016
Album Review: Eric Ambel — Lakeside
Indie cred: it’s an elusive quality, one that most artists would be pleased to possess. Indie cred connotes a level of achievement that suggests one’s work is more than ephemeral, […]
14 Apr 2016
Single Review: Dirty Sidewalks — “It’s Getting Better” b/w “Hey Girl”
Seattle-based Dirty Sidewalks recently released a 7” single worthy of a listen. The a-side, “It’s Getting Better,” has already gotten some commercial traction in one of the few forms that […]
12 Apr 2016
Album Review: The Deadly Ones — It’s Monster Surfing Time
Two of pop culture’s kitschiest phenomenons collide on this new reissue of an ultra-rare LP from 1964. Not counting revivals and renewed interest, surf rock was popular from about 1962 […]
06 Apr 2016
Album Mini-review: Bill Pritchard — Mother Town Hall
File next to: Ray Davies, Lloyd Cole, Martin Newell Despite having released nine albums since 1987, England-based Bill Pritchard isn’t well-known at home , much less here in the USA: […]
05 Apr 2016
Album Mini-review: The Coral — Distance Inbetween
File Next to: Echo and the Bunnymen, The Doors, The Cult Standing astride two rock subgenres – Britpop and a sort of Paisley Underground revival – The Coral have been […]
05 Apr 2016
Album Mini-review: Coastgaard — Devil on the Balcony
(The following was originally published by the San Diego Reader.) Though Coastgaard build their music on a foundation of surf rock, their approach is quite some distance from that of […]