rawk Archive
03 Dec 2014
Book Review: Led Zeppelin on Led Zeppelin
It’s often unfortunate when a writer with an axe to grind pens the history of one of music’s great historical figures. It borders on tragic when such a work – […]
02 Dec 2014
Album Review: Various Artists — Right Now
I’ve observed before that Fantastic Voyage makes full advantage of the unique copyright/licensing laws as they exist in the UK; in the United States, putting together a package such as […]
28 Nov 2014
Album Review: A Kool Kat Kristmas, Vol. 2
It’s that time of year again. In the USA, at least, the days after Thanksgiving is the unofficial kickoff of the Christmas season. And every year about this time, I […]
27 Nov 2014
A Thanksgiving Feast of Mini-reviews
Customarily, I take Thanksgiving Day off from posting to the blog (it’s one of very few days in which I do that). In fact I generally write the pieces days […]
26 Nov 2014
Album Review: The Movements — Like Elephants II
Less than a year after releasing Like Elephants I (reviewed separately), The Movements came back with 2014’s Like Elephants II. And the two discs truly are of a piece: sonically […]
25 Nov 2014
Album Review: The Movements — Like Elephants I
Every so often an album comes along that really pushes all of the right buttons with me. And as with most listeners, for me, what exactly those buttons are constitutes […]
20 Nov 2014
Album Review: Casual Strangers — Casual Strangers
A fellow music lover and good friend of mine is quite wary of what one might call deceptive packaging in music. You know, that thing where a band says that […]
18 Nov 2014
Album Review: Midge Ure — Fragile
In my last review, I took a look at a new release from Colin Hay, an artist who came to prominence in the early 1980s with his group Men at […]
14 Nov 2014
November Hundred-word Reviews, Part 5
Once again, it’s time for a run of hundred-word reviews. My inbox has been overflowing of late, and even after removing the material that I deem not worth my time […]
11 Nov 2014
November Hundred-word Reviews, Part 2
Once again, it’s time for a run of hundred-word reviews. My inbox has been overflowing of late, and even after removing the material that I deem not worth my time […]