rawk Archive
06 Nov 2013
Album Review: The Paley Brothers — The Complete Recordings
File these guys under Music You Probably Missed. Chalk it up to record execs not knowing exactly what to do with The Paley Brothers, or perhaps assign some of the […]
05 Nov 2013
Photoblogging: Mountain Oasis 2013, Part Two
Some images from the second night of Mountain Oasis Electronic Music Summit in Asheville NC. All photos © Bill Kopp. Photos from the first night are here. More Mountain Oasis […]
04 Nov 2013
DVD Review: Deep Purple — Perfect Strangers Live
Deep Purple are one of those bands with a tortured history of lineup changes, stylistic detours, and changing fortunes. While their real-life saga doesn’t rival that of the just-this-side-of-fictional Spinal […]
01 Nov 2013
Mountain Oasis Electronic Summit: Recap Part 2
On Saturday — the second of the festival’s three nights — I took in two shows of note. I had tentative plans to check out some other sets, but these […]
31 Oct 2013
It’s a Mondo Zombie Boogaloo!
It’s one thing to make good music. A challenging thing, not to be taken for granted, but as far as live performance goes, ultimately it’s only one part of the […]
29 Oct 2013
Album Review: Humble Pie — Rockin’ the Fillmore: The Complete Recordings
Ruminating on chronicles of excess, I recall that it was just about two years ago that Rhino Handmade released The Grateful Dead‘s Europe ’72: The Complete Recordings. Some 22 complete […]
28 Oct 2013
Mountain Oasis Electronic Summit: Recap Part 1
My sweetheart and I enjoyed the first night of 2013 Mountain Oasis together; while I’d cover nights two and three on my own, this night we managed together to take […]
07 Oct 2013
Album Review: Sly and the Family Stone — Higher!
The work of Sly Stone has long called for a collection like this one. A set bringing together 77 tracks across four discs, it includes not only the obvious hits […]
04 Oct 2013
X Marks the Spot: The 2013 Richard X Heyman Interview, Part Two
Continued from Part One Bill Kopp: You’ve long been one of those artists who can handle everything in the studio; other than Nancy engineering, most of your albums have featured […]
03 Oct 2013
X Marks the Spot: The 2013 Richard X Heyman Interview, Part One
Richard X Heyman is nominally a powerpop artist, but ever since his first solo album in 1988, there has been a lot more going on in his music than a […]