rawk Archive
26 Aug 2014
Never Had It Better: A Chat with James Lowe of The Electric Prunes (Part Two)
Continued from Part One… Bill Kopp: In 2012 I wrote a blog entry in which I suggested that Syd Barrett may have – consciously or otherwise – nicked the intro […]
25 Aug 2014
Never Had It Better: A Chat with James Lowe of The Electric Prunes (Part One)
In that heady summer of 1967, one of the songs that captured and embodied the zeitgeist was “I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night),” a fuzzed-out psychedelic miniature masterpiece […]
14 Aug 2014
Hundred Word Reviews for August 2014, Part 4
This set of five 100-word reviews focuses on new music, some of which is from familiar names; others might be new to you. All are worthwhile and enthusiastically recommended. Murali […]
13 Aug 2014
Hundred Word Reviews for August 2014, Part 3
Five new releases are the focus of this clutch of hundred-word reviews. Analog Son – Analog Son The name might conjure mental visions of a synthesizer outfit, but the sounds […]
11 Aug 2014
Hundred Word Reviews for August 2014, Part 1
Some familiar names and some true obscurities are highlighted in this, the first of five sets of five capsule reviews. This week I’ll review 25 albums, arbitrarily limiting myself to […]
07 Aug 2014
Album Review: The Move — Live at the Fillmore 1969
Here’s another case of a long-circulating bootleg finding official release (see also: yesterday’s review of an Iron Butterfly live set). The Move were big in the UK, but went largely […]
06 Aug 2014
Album Review: Iron Butterfly — Live at the Galaxy 1967
There’s been a spate of previously-unreleased live albums released of late; this week I’m focusing on five of them. The first, a 1975 set by Magma, offered way-out music and […]
01 Aug 2014
EP Review: The Fauntleroys — Below the Pink Pony
I can’t find the specific quote I’m looking for at the moment, but there’s an entry in Lillian Roxon’s Rock Encyclopedia (the original 1969 edition, not the lousy and lifeless […]
29 Jul 2014
Album Review: NRBQ — Brass Tacks
NRBQ are one of America’s great musical treasures. Though they’ve never enjoyed the sort of commercial success of, say, a Creedence Clearwater Revival or The Band, the catalog of this […]
25 Jul 2014
Hundred-word Reviews July 2014, Part Five
All this week, I’ve been working to reduce the contents of my in-box to manageable levels; these are the last five of 25 albums in that effort, each review adhering […]