rawk Archive
16 Sep 2014
Boots by George Harrison, Hair by Robert Smith: The Posies Interview, Part Two
Continued from Part One… Bill Kopp: I thought it was a nice bit of contextualization to include Veronika Kalmar‘s snarky and negative review in the liner notes of the Failure […]
15 Sep 2014
Boots by George Harrison, Hair by Robert Smith: The Posies Interview, Part One
While grunge or alternative might be the first rock genres that spring to mind when one thinks of the 1990s, an unlikely group from the Pacific Northwest had already gained […]
12 Sep 2014
Everything Comes Together: The Paul & John Interview, Part Three
Continued from Part Two… The album that would become Inner Sunset was announced in 2013, but the project’s gestation was a lengthy process, especially when compared to the quick, DIY […]
11 Sep 2014
Everything Comes Together: The Paul & John Interview, Part Two
Continued from Part One… Speaking of the process of songwriting, the songs on The Paul & John‘s Inner Sunset are truly the product of a collaborative approach between Paul Myers […]
10 Sep 2014
Everything Comes Together: The Paul & John Interview, Part One
Music lovers who appreciate highly melodic and memorable rock-based songs – the kind of instantly hummable tunes that stick in your head long after the song is over – should […]
09 Sep 2014
Album Review: Sloan — Commonwealth
Rock fans who fall into a certain age bracket may recall the buzz around the release of Liz Phair‘s major-label debut, 1993’s Exile in Guyville. As the popular story went, […]
05 Sep 2014
Album Review: The Small Faces — There Are But Four Small Faces
History has a way of playing tricks on us. How many of us American fans of Beach Boys music remember that Pet Sounds was – upon its original release – […]
04 Sep 2014
Album Review: The Mojo Gurus — Who Asked Ya?
Once upon a time, rock was rock. In the days before popular music fell prey to market segmentation, the catch-all term of rock conjured – at least to some extent […]
29 Aug 2014
Album Review: Hedersleben — Die Neuen Welten
According to our friends over at Wikipedia, krautrock is defined as “a form of rock and electronic music that originated in Germany in the late 1960s, with a tendency towards […]
28 Aug 2014
Album Review: Rog & Pip — Our Revolution
I’ve just stumbled upon what sounds like the greatest album Sweet ever made. The thing is, most of the tunes on Our Revolution have gone unreleased – or have been […]