rawk Archive
24 Feb 2014
A Conversation with The Tubes’ Founder Bill Spooner, Part One
“No titties in the Twin Cities.” Customarily, I try to keep up with the interviews I do. Unfortunately, one fascinating interview has gone un-transcribed for more than a year and […]
21 Feb 2014
Here Come the Small Faces, Part Three
Continued from Part Two… Ian McLagan relates an amusing story, one that illustrates his old band’s far-reaching influence. “When working on The Small Faces DVD a few years ago, I […]
20 Feb 2014
Here Come the Small Faces, Part Two
Continued from Part One… Kenney Jones believes that The Small Faces‘ four-way collaborative process affected the songs to a large degree. “A lot of ideas…if I was saying something, it […]
19 Feb 2014
Here Come the Small Faces, Part One
The 1960s were a staggeringly fertile period for pop music. And – thanks in no small part to the success of The Beatles – a disproportionate (though completely deserved) share […]
12 Feb 2014
Album Reviews: Camper Van Beethoven — Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart and Key Lime Pie
You know that marketing term “early adopter?” Those are the people who bought CD players in 1984. They bought Blu-Ray players before there were any Blu-Ray discs available. And they […]
11 Feb 2014
Yuck’s “Glow & Behold” — Shoegaze Meets Melody (Part Two)
Continued from Part One… The first record was self-produced; for Glow & Behold, the band chose to work with Chris Coady, who’s worked with other indie-styled artists like Smith Westerns, […]
10 Feb 2014
Yuck’s “Glow & Behold” — Shoegaze Meets Melody (Part One)
In October 2013, London/New York-based Yuck released Glow & Behold, their second album. And while a “cold” listen to it – as in, using ears that had never heard their […]
07 Feb 2014
Hundred Word Reviews: February 2014, Part Three
I’m making progress in bringing my the contents of my in-box down to a manageable size, but there are still so many albums deserving of coverage that I’ll be doing […]
06 Feb 2014
Hundred Word Reviews: February 2014, Part Two
As part of my continuing effort to thin the pile of to-be-reviewed CDs on my desk – and that’s after culling all the ones I’ve decided not to cover – […]
04 Feb 2014
The Brotherhood / Phil Volk Interview, Part Seven
Continued from Part Six… Bill Kopp: For me, from a musical standpoint, there’s a paradox where the two Brotherhood albums are concerned. Of course it goes without saying that I […]