rawk Archive
06 Sep 2024
Preview: Electric Lady Studios – A Jimi Hendrix Vision
A new documentary telling the story of one of music’s most important recording studios is the selection for the next installment in the Music Movie Mondays series at Grail Movie […]
05 Sep 2024
The Music of Big Star Gets What it Deserves (Part 2 of 2)
Continued from Part One… “It was Jody’s instinct,” says Sansone, “for the songs to be played by a band, in the spirit that the records were made.” Sansone describes his […]
04 Sep 2024
The Music of Big Star Gets What it Deserves (Part 1 of 2)
An edited version of this featured appeared in Spin. Rock music’s history is filled with success stories, both of the gradual and so-called “overnight success” varieties. But that history also […]
01 Sep 2024
30 Days Out, September 2024 #1: Buckethead, Ménage, Gong, David Cross, Darkside Experience
A mysterious instrumentalist, a local legend, a double-bill of prog heroes and a tribute of one of rock’s greatest: those are the highlights of the live music scene in Asheville […]
30 Aug 2024
38 Special: Rockin’ Into the Future (Part 2 of 2)
Continued from Part One… The band’s peak began and sustained once you started writing with Jim Peterik. How did that relationship come about? Our label at the time was A&M […]
29 Aug 2024
38 Special: Rockin’ Into the Future (Part 1 of 2)
38 Special started out like many other bands in and around Jacksonville, Florida in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, with a Southern rock sound and attitude to match. But […]
27 Aug 2024
Album Review: The Black Watch – Weird Rooms
Hard as I try, I simply can’t keep up. John Andrew Fredrick isn’t only a fine songwriter and musician; he’s a staggeringly prolific one. Limiting the discussion to only releases […]
24 Aug 2024
Take Five: The Beach Boys’ ‘Endless Summer’
The music of the Beach Boys is a cultural icon. Songs about surfing, cars, girls defined an era. Before the Beatles led the charge of the British Invasion, the group […]
21 Aug 2024
The Family Stone: All in the Family
Roaring out of Vallejo in the mid ‘60s with a look and sound that set them apart from their contemporaries, Sly and the Family Stone quickly became music superstars. The […]
18 Aug 2024
Hundred-word Reviews for August 2024: Rock
Here’s another tidy (metaphorical) stack of hundred-word reviews. Awhile the coverage is brief, all five albums come with my recommendation. The unifying theme is rock, albeit of various substyles. And […]