rawk Archive
13 Nov 2015
November 100-word Reviews, Part 5
My current crop of hundred-word reviews wraps up with some odds and ends, all worth a listen. I generally don’t review from MP3 files, but in a few cases I […]
12 Nov 2015
November 100-word Reviews, Part 4
My roundup of worthy albums that deserve coverage continues with five more hundred-word reviews. Each of these deserves deeper coverage, but “so much music, so little time.” Dig ’em all. […]
11 Nov 2015
November 100-word Reviews, Part 3
Today as my regular series of hundred-word reviews continues, I turn my attention toward the sounds of Americana. For my purposes, the term is even more loosey-goosey than the one […]
10 Nov 2015
November 100-word Reviews, Part 2
Aaaand we’re back for another fistful of shortish CD reviews. Today’s five – mostly with odd names, as it happens – are in the rock idiom; maybe a bit of […]
06 Nov 2015
Book Review: Experiencing David Bowie
A few years back, Book publishers Rowman & Littlefield initiated an intriguing series. Each book in that series – each with its own author – would explore a particular slice […]
05 Nov 2015
Album Reviews: Three Reissues from Peter Frampton
In 2015, Omnivore Recordings has reissued three albums from Peter Frampton. They’re each quite different from one another, but since they’ve been put into the market at once, that’s how […]
22 Oct 2015
Album Mini-review: Dungen — Allas Sak
File Next to: Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis, Pink Floyd Leader and songwriter Gustav Estjes describes Dungen‘s music as “fokrockpsych.” While that encompasses a wide swath of musical landscape, it barely […]
21 Oct 2015
Ozric Tentacles: Thirty Years and Still Underground
Ozric Tentacles is that rare group that appeals to fans of trance/rave, techno, jam, psychedelic, and space/progressive rock. Founded in Somerset, England – they currently make their home in Colorado […]
20 Oct 2015
DVD Review: Escala Musical TV 1966-67
I took three years of Spanish in high school – seemingly a thousand years ago, more like thirty – and to this day I can correctly pronounce the items on […]
16 Oct 2015
Album Mini-review: David Gilmour — Rattle That Lock
File Next to: Pink Floyd, The Orb One of the knocks – fair or not – on Pink Floyd‘s pair of post-Roger Waters albums (1987’s A Momentary Lapse of Reason […]