rawk Archive
14 Dec 2015
Album Review: Donovan’s Brain — Heirloom Varieties
At peril of engaging in a mild bit of hyperbole, Donovan’s Brain can rightly be described as a college-rock supergroup. “College rock” – those of you over thirty may recall […]
04 Dec 2015
Concert Review: Martin Barre — Asheville NC, 3 December 2015
Maybe you’ve had this experience yourself: you have tickets to a show. You’re really looking forward to it. You know it’s going to be really good. Then you get there, […]
04 Dec 2015
Album Mini-review: Supersuckers — Holdin’ the Bag
File Next to: Long Ryders, Jason & the Scorchers, Peter Case If Michael Jackson could hubristically anoint himself King of Pop, it stands to reason that Supersuckers should be allowed […]
02 Dec 2015
Album Review: Lee Michaels — The Complete A&M Album Collection (Part Two)
Continued from Part One… Barrel Months later, Lee Michaels returned with 1970’s Barrel. Seemingly determined never to take the same musical approach twice in a row, for Barrel Michaels brought […]
01 Dec 2015
Album Review: Lee Michaels — The Complete A&M Album Collection (Part One)
Even a music consumer who vastly prefers vinyl over compact disc must allow that there have been some very important creative/aesthetic triumphs that have happened only because of compact disc […]
26 Nov 2015
Full-on Fun: Guitarist Martin Barre’s Post-Jethro Tull World
Ask most people who the leader of Jethro Tull was, and they say, “Why, Mr. Tull, of course!” No, that’s Ian Anderson you’re thinking of. But the mainstay of that […]
25 Nov 2015
DVD Review: Taste — What’s Going On: Live at the Isle of Wight
It happens quite rarely: I discover an album or video by a rock artist active decades ago, one who is totally unknown to me. And it’s happened now. Taste was […]
20 Nov 2015
Album Mini-review: of Montreal — Snare Lustrous Doomings
File next to:Soft Boys, Olivia Tremor Control, Television One of the most commercially successful exponents of the Athens GA-based Elephant 6 Collective, of Montreal has a well-deserved reputation for powerful […]
17 Nov 2015
Only in America: The Lloyd Price Interview, Part 2
Continued from Part One… Any biographical sketch of Lloyd Price makes mention that he was one of the organizers of the legendary Rumble in the Jungle, the 1974 prize fight […]
16 Nov 2015
Only in America: The Lloyd Price Interview, Part 1
Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Lloyd Price is a pop music legend. The Kenner, Louisiana native scored an impressive string of major hits, beginning with 1952’s “Lawdy Miss Clawdy” […]