rawk Archive
07 May 2024
Jefferson Starship’s Embryonic Journey Continues
When one looks beyond the many hits – no less than 18 charting singles – the history of Jefferson Starship is admittedly a complicated one. Rising from the ashes of […]
03 May 2024
Roger McGuinn’s Signature Sound
Roger McGuinn is largely responsible for one of the most distinctive sounds in popular music. Though his musical career began in the folk idiom, McGuinn – like countless others in […]
02 May 2024
The Marshall Tucker Band: Together Forever
Combining rock, country and even a bit of jazz, the Marshall Tucker Band earned major success in the 1970s. The group from Spartanburg, South Carolina would score six Gold albums, […]
01 May 2024
30 Days Out, May 2024 #1: Eric Slick, Carpal Tullar, Cypress Hill, Real Estate
What an impressive lineup of touring (and local) acts on the calendar over the next 30 days in Asheville. Even with everything going on in the world, what a great […]
30 Apr 2024
Capsule Reviews for April 2024 #2
There’s a real assortment of great new music that I’d like you know about. So here I present capsule reviews of five new titles in a variety of styles and […]
28 Apr 2024
Reviews: Five New Power Pop (or Power Pop-adjacent) Titles
Emperor Penguin – Gentlemen Thieves The hardest-rocking of these five new releases, Gentlemen Thieves folds in glam and other rock styles to create a memorable set of songs. A strong […]
26 Apr 2024
Jim Messina: Master of Stage and Studio
It’s the rare individual whose work encompasses multiple and clearly-defined sectors of the music business: very few people can claim deep experience as recording engineer, producer, musician, recording artist, singer-songwriter […]
22 Apr 2024
Five Semi-rare Cuts from Deep Purple
Deep Purple released Burn, their eighth studio album a half-century ago in February 1974. Today the band endures: founding member Ian Paice (drums) is joined by Roger Glover and Ian […]
19 Apr 2024
Los Straitjackets: Who Are Those Masked Men?
Surf music is often associated with a specific time and place. The rock subgenre featuring instrumental tunes built around sonorous electric lead guitar enjoyed its heyday in the late 1950s […]
18 Apr 2024
Twilley Don’t Stop (Part 3 of 3)
Continued from Part Two… Now and Always Amidst all the closet-clearing archival sets, the most notable release of new music from Dwight Twilley in the 21st century would be 2014’s […]