rawk Archive
14 Aug 2015
Album Mini-review: No Joy — More Faithful
File Next to: My Bloody Valentine, Best Coast There’s a curious quality to some of the best shoegaze: the dual feeling of moving both at breakneck speed and at a […]
14 Aug 2015
Album Mini-review: Rose Windows — Rose Windows
File next to: Black Mountain, Black Angels Talk about promise only partially fulfilled. When Rose Windows released Sun Dogs, their 2013, major-label debut, they displayed great potential. With a strong […]
13 Aug 2015
Shuggie Otis: The Music Keeps Calling Him Back (Part 4)
Continued from Part Three… Bill Kopp: A lot of highly-regarded musicians have named you as an inspiration. David Byrne was instrumental in the first [2001] CD reissue of Inspiration Information. […]
12 Aug 2015
Shuggie Otis: The Music Keeps Calling Him Back (Part 3)
Continued from Part Two… Shuggie Otis: But the songs kept calling me back. A song would be really good, and I’d think about it, and realize that I have to […]
11 Aug 2015
Shuggie Otis: The Music Keeps Calling him Back (Part 2)
Continued from Part One… Bill Kopp: You sent demo tapes to many labels, but nothing happened for years, until the reissue of Inspiration Information with the added Wings of Love […]
10 Aug 2015
Shuggie Otis: The Music Keeps Calling Him Back (Part 1)
“I look back now,” says Shuggie Otis, “and I think, ‘Wow. I must have a lot of patience!’” The multi-instrumentalist is reflecting on the curious arc of his career so […]
03 Aug 2015
Six Years of Musoscribe: The British Invasion
In February 1964, The Beatles landed in America. And everything changed. In the wake of the Beatles’ Stateside success – from the launchpad of The Ed Sullivan Show – the […]
21 Jul 2015
Hundred-word Reviews for July 2015, Part 1
Power pop is a term that can be taken to mean a lot of different things. For me it almost always means fun and appealing music. Here are five examples, […]
17 Jul 2015
Interview: Kevn Kinney of Drivin N Cryin
Yesterday I published my feature based on an interview with Kevn Kinney. Today I present the entire interview. — bk Bill Kopp: The new vinyl album Best of Songs compiles […]
16 Jul 2015
Drivin N Cryin’s Kevn Kinney: Sowing Confusion
Since their debut in the mid 1980s, Atlanta-based Drivin N Cryin have crafted their own take on southern rock. Led by guitarist/songwriter Kevn Kinney, the group has distilled its many […]