rawk Archive
01 Jan 2016
Album Mini-review: Alan Vega / Alex Chilton / Ben Vaughn – Cubist Blues
File next to: Tav Falco and Panther Burns, Suicide, Jesus and Mary Chain One of the more unlikely musical summits in recorded history, this one-off album was made in two […]
01 Jan 2016
Album Mini-review: DM3 — West of Anywhere
File Next to: Shoes, Cheap Trick, Raspberries If you were American and into power pop, the 1990s was a decade filled with riches. You could blissfully ignore all that dreadful […]
01 Jan 2016
Album Mini-review: Motobunny — Motobunny
File next to: The Bangles, Amboy Dukes, Joan Jett It’s quite a tightrope walk to create music that rocks hard – really hard – yet maintains a strong, hooky, singalong […]
24 Dec 2015
Album Reviews: Five from Fantastic Voyage
The hits just keep on coming. Fantastic Voyage is a London-based label that specializes in thematically-oriented archival reissue collections. In the last few months, they seem to have significantly stepped […]
22 Dec 2015
Video Review: Frank Zappa — Roxy: The Movie
There’s no consensus among Frank Zappa fans as to which album is his “best.” But most will agree that the 1974 double-live LP Roxy & Elsewhere is a high point. […]
21 Dec 2015
DVD Review: Drop In 1963-1965
It’s a well-established part of 20th century pop culture history: the world – or at the very least North America – changed irrevocably in February 1964 when The Beatles appeared […]
18 Dec 2015
Album Review: William Duke — The Dark Beautiful Sun
There’s always room for an album of fine music in a Tom Petty-meets-Brian Wilson vein. What, you say? Well, William Duke‘s latest, The Dark Beautiful Sun – even the title […]
17 Dec 2015
Album Review: Ancient River — Keeper of the Dawn
With its transgressive album cover – photos arranged in an upside-down crucifix style, featuring spooky overlays of grinning skulls – you’d be forgive for guessing that Ancient River‘s Keeper of […]
16 Dec 2015
Album Review: Tall Dwarfs — Weeville
As I discussed in yesterday’s review of Chris Knox‘s Seizure, famed New Zealand independent label Flying Nun has released that title and Tall Dwarfs‘ Weeville on vinyl LP. Some might […]
15 Dec 2015
Album Review: Chris Knox – Seizure
I have a lot for which to thank Richie Unterberger. Reading the renowned music journalist’s 1998 book – the first of several – Unknown Legends of Rock’n’Roll introduced me to […]