rawk Archive
30 Nov 2021
Hundred-word Reviews, November 2021
This has been an unusual year, and that’s putting it mildly. With life slowly and tentatively inching in the direction of new-normal, it’s time to bring back my Hundred-word Reviews. […]
27 Nov 2021
Album Review: The Pulsators — Let’s Play!
From Petaluma, California comes the six-piece band The Pulsators. The band is led by drummer-vocalist Johnny Campbell, a musician who came to my attention as a member of late’ 70s […]
25 Nov 2021
Album+Blu-Ray Review: Lynyrd Skynyrd – Live at Knebworth ‘76
Released in September 1976, the double LP One More from the Road has stood the test of time as the definitive (and for many years only) recorded document of Lynyrd […]
22 Nov 2021
Album Review: Jupiter Cyclops – Prophets, Prospectors & Madmen
This swaggering Phoenix metal outfit swings for the fences on its debut release. With guitar pyrotechnics woven into a band aesthetic that focuses on ensemble playing, Jupiter cyclops delivers the […]
21 Nov 2021
Album Review: Chillingsworth Surfingham
Instrumental surf rock is a beloved sub-style in some quarters of the rock universe. And I proudly reside in one of those corners. Especially when it’s done with equal parts […]
20 Nov 2021
Album Review: The Black Watch — Here & There
If their music wasn’t so good, I’d almost be a bit annoyed by The Black Watch. John Andrew Fredrick barely gives lovers of his fine, evocative, atmospheric and highly tuneful […]
18 Nov 2021
Album Review: Bill Lloyd — Working the Long Game
While it’s true that Bill Lloyd first came to prominence as half of the c&w duo Foster and Lloyd – an outfit that did some fine work in that genre […]
13 Nov 2021
Album Review: The Weeklings — In Their Own Write
Had The Weeklings never done anything beyond the perfect Beatles pastiche of “Little Tease,” they wold be worthy of note and praise. But they have done more, and its all […]
12 Nov 2021
Album Review: Møtrik — Moon: The Cosmic Electrics of Møtrik
Acknowledging that krautrock is in fact little more than a catch-all term for a wide variety of styles that come (primarily) out of very late ‘60s to mid ‘70s West […]
09 Nov 2021
Album Review: Ram On – The 50th Anniversary Tribute to Paul and Linda McCartney’s ‘Ram’
If you read Musoscribe with anything approaching regularity (and sincere thanks if you do), the name Fernando Perdomo will be a familiar one. An in-demand multifarious session player, he also […]