rawk Archive
01 Jun 2025
30 Days Out, June 2025 #1: Peter Hook, Beach Boys, Sugar Bomb, Adrian Younge
Wowzers. I have a lot to say about the four spotlight acts that dominate the Asheville music calendar in the coming 30 days. Off we go! Artist: Peter Hook & […]
27 May 2025
Album Review: The Mayflies USA – Kickless Kids
North Carolina boasts a proud power pop tradition. Maybe you call it melodic rock, or jangle rock, or indie rock or college rock; take your pick and don’t throw shade […]
25 May 2025
Album Review: Yahtzee Brown – You Got This
I get lots of music in my mailbox. And I’m not complaining; helpful artists, labels and publicists send me a steady stream of sounds, and it’s not uncommon to discover […]
23 May 2025
Album Review: Murray Attaway – [tense music plays…]
I grew up in the 1970s and ‘80s in metro Atlanta. That meant I had a front row seat to the development and rise of bands like Dixie Dregs, Kansas, […]
20 May 2025
Album Review: The Iveys – How Much is the Sky
Seasoned Badfinger fans know the broad outlines of the story: before they were rechristened by The Beatles, Badfinger were The Iveys. Under that name, the Welsh group even made an […]
19 May 2025
Album Review: Bob Mosley – Bob Mosley
The saga of Moby Grape is one of the saddest in rock history. Possessed of stunning levels of creativity and talent, the San Francisco group fell victim to a poisonous […]
18 May 2025
Album Review: The Mommyheads – Acorn
Cult sensations The Mommyheads have never made a bad album. They’ve also never achieved anything close to the mainstream success they so richly deserve. Clever in the extreme, the NYC-based […]
15 May 2025
30 Days Out, May 2025 #2: After Ours, Takaat, David Lowery, Larkin Poe
A local act that released one of my favorite albums in recent memory, a band consisting of sidemen who play with one of the most fascinating guitarists working today, and […]
14 May 2025
Take Five: Bad Company
Something of a supergroup, Bad Company was a fixture on American FM radio of the 1970s. The blues-based hard rock band was based in the UK but found more commercial […]
06 May 2025
Killer Queen: Guaranteed to Blow Your Mind (Part 2 of 2)
Continued from Part One… How did that lead to the band getting going? The idea of tribute bands was really only just starting then. At the time there was this […]