rawk Archive
14 Jul 2015
Some Long-lost Artist Biographies
Way back in the depths of the Great Recession (2007-2009), one of my former writers (from my time as Editor in Chief of a now-defunct magazine I won’t dignify by […]
10 Jul 2015
Album Review: The Standells — Live on Tour 1966!
The Standells – considered a quintessential protopunk band of the 1960s – got their start as a matching-suited, club band playing frat-rock and covers of the day. The pride of […]
09 Jul 2015
Album Review: The Shadows of Knight — Live 1966
In their heyday – a period that began in 1966 and ended, well, in 1966 – Chicago’s Shadows of Knight embodied what we now look back upon as the garage […]
08 Jul 2015
Album Mini-review: Rhett Miller — The Traveler
File Next to: Old 97s, Pete Yorn In his role as guitarist and lead vocalist of Old 97s, Rhett Miller has been at the modern-day vanguard of successful rock/country cross-fertilization. […]
03 Jul 2015
World Party’s Karl Wallinger: He’s the One (Part 2)
Continued from Part One… Bill Kopp: I’ve been a fan and follower of World Party ever since the 1986 release of Private Revolution, but the album I return to the […]
02 Jul 2015
World Party’s Karl Wallinger: He’s the One (Part 1)
For all intents and purposes, World Party is Karl Wallinger. Across five studio albums, a spiral-bound 4CD closet-clearing set, and a few best-of collections, the Welsh-born Wallinger has delivered a […]
30 Jun 2015
Album Review: Todd Rundgren — Global
In one sense, the best artists are those who confound their fans. There’s certainly a place for the reliable musical act that releases pretty much the same album over and […]
23 Jun 2015
Album Review: Little Richard — Directly From My Heart
For music lovers of a certain age range, the work of Richard Penniman is the sort of music that one might only rarely make an effort to hear. The name […]
16 Jun 2015
Album Review: Bassekou Kouyaté & Ngoni Ba — Ba Power
Ask most informed music enthusiasts to cite an example of “world music” from Africa, and one of the first names offered up will likely be Malian guitarist/vocalist Ali Farka Touré. […]
03 Jun 2015
Video Review: Genesis — Sum of the Parts
One could say that The Beatles did it first, and thus set the tone and standard for future official biographies. Their Anthology documentary series afforded them the opportunity to tell […]