rawk Archive
31 Mar 2025
Book Review: Times and Seasons: The Rise and Fall and Rise of The Zombies
It’s impossible to provide even a rough estimate of how many rock bios have been published. Let’s agree: a lot. Some artists – you know the ones – have been […]
01 Mar 2025
30 Days Out, March 2025 #1: Jimmy Vivino, Orions Belte, They Might Be Giants, Jackie Venson
Lively blues, trippy instro, sophisticated progressive pop, genre-spanning guitar fireworks… those are among the highlights of a very creatively fertile March 2025 in Asheville. Artist: Jimmy Vivino Venue: The Grey […]
28 Feb 2025
Album Review: XTC – Skylarking (2024 edition)
A widely acknowledged peak in the work of XTC – a group that never made a bad album, and rarely made one less than great – Skylarking has nonetheless long […]
25 Feb 2025
Album Review: Mile Marker Zero – Coming of Age
Listeners who luxuriate in the heartbreakingly fragile, melancholy moments within Steven Wilson’s catalog – songs like “The Raven Refused to Sing” – have something new they should hear. Even though […]
18 Feb 2025
Album Review: The Saints – (I’m) Stranded Box Set
Accepted wisdom holds that punk rock came about circa 1976-’77, primarily in London and New York City. The truth is that the seeds of the style were sown much earlier, […]
14 Feb 2025
Larkin Poe Go Their Own Way
This feature first appeared in SPIN. The success of Larkin Poe’s 2024 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album could have been a double-edged sword, painting the rootsy duo of […]
13 Feb 2025
Album Review: Ed Rawlings – A Foolish Inconsistency
Way back in 1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” The line is from his essay “Self-Reliance,” itself an ironic title, seeing as […]
12 Feb 2025
Dirty Logic: Reelin’ in the Classics
The recent interest in so-called “yacht rock” – brought about thanks to a new HBO documentary on the subject – has brought the names of several bands from the ‘70s […]
07 Feb 2025
Hamish Anderson is All About the Live Experience
Not so many years ago, the only path to success for a recording and performing artist was to land a record deal. The marketing and administrative muscle of the major […]
17 Jan 2025
A Chat with Mitch Woods
With his deep immersion into 20th century American musical styles, Mitch Woods is adept at channeling the sound and spirit of that music into his own winning original material. Woods’ […]