rawk Archive
26 Jan 2016
Hundred-word Reviews January 2016: Reissues
Today’s collection of hundred-word reviews focuses on recent reissues of note. Uriah Heep – Totally Driven I’m not going to try to tell you that the turn of the 21st […]
25 Jan 2016
Hundred-word Reviews January 2016: Archival Live Albums
It’s time once again to take a stab at clearing out the massive backlog of worthy CDs clogging my inbox. Today, it’s quick reviews of five archival live albums, all […]
22 Jan 2016
The Handcuffs: A Tale of the Tape (Part 2)
Continued from Part One… “For me,” The Handcuffs guitarist/vocalist Chloe F. Orwell adds, “when we’re in the studio for four twelve-hour days, I think to myself, ‘There is nowhere in […]
21 Jan 2016
The Handcuffs: A Tale of the Tape (Part 1)
Midwestern rockers The Handcuffs are fronted by songwriters Chloe F. Orwell (guitar/vocals) and Brad Elvis (drums); they first came to my attention via their 2011 album. In my capsule review […]
20 Jan 2016
Album Review: Love — Reel to Real
In the community of pop music critics and historians, it’s common to find Love‘s Forever Changes cited as one of the great lost albums of the 1960s. Under-recognized at the […]
14 Jan 2016
Album Review: Peter Case — HWY 62
Peter Case first came to notoriety as one third of The Nerves, a critically acclaimed power pop trio that didn’t hang around long enough to capitalize on the genre’s brief […]
11 Jan 2016
Album Mini-review: Milk Lines — Ceramic
File next to: Skip Spence, 13th Floor Elevators, Black Angels Just when you think the guitar-and-drums-duo format is totally played out, along comes Montréal-based Milk Lines. Rather than slammin’, unsubtle […]
08 Jan 2016
Watch Those Men: Wham Bam Bowie Band
David Bowie cast off his Ziggy Stardust persona decades ago, but a fondness for the look and sound of his 1970s music remains strong among rock fans. Asheville-based touring tribute […]
07 Jan 2016
Album Review: Roger Waters – Amused to Death
In the years immediately following his estrangement from his Pink Floyd band mates, Roger Waters‘ musical career took a strange turn. While asserting (in a song lyric) “This is my […]
06 Jan 2016
Album Mini-review: Dweezil Zappa — Via Zammata’
File next to: Frank Zappa, Primus, Tenacious D Today, Dweezil Zappa might sound like a chip off the old block, but it wasn’t always so. On his first release – […]