rawk Archive
14 Mar 2021
Album Review: The Braam Brothers — Landscapes
Have you ever wondered what Cowboy Junkies might’ve sounded like with a male lead singer? Me neither, but here’s the answer anyway: The Braam Brothers on their latest album, Landscapes. […]
12 Mar 2021
Album Review: Pylon — Pylon Box
With great and due respect to R.E.M. – and, to a lesser extent, the B-52’s – there was a lot more significant musical activity going on in and around Athens, […]
11 Mar 2021
Album Review: Matthew Sweet — Catspaw
Matthew Sweet’s mix of hard rock crunch, indelible melodic sense and razor-sharp hooks has served him well over the course of more than a dozen solo albums and collaborative projects. […]
05 Mar 2021
Album Review: Pink Floyd – Delicate Sound of Thunder (2020 expanded reissue)
Twenty-two years after its initial release, it’s worth considering just how remarkable an album Pink Floyd’s Delicate Sound of Thunder was in 1988. Though Pink Floyd had released 13 albums, […]
28 Feb 2021
Album Review — Kimon Kirk — Altitude
There’s always a place for chiming, ear-candy rock with folk and singer-songwriter tendencies. And that’s what’s offer on Altitude, the new album from Boston-based Kimon Kirk. This guitarist and songwriter […]
26 Feb 2021
Todd Rundgren’s “Clearly Human” Tour: The Ever Popular Geofenced Artist Effect (Part Two)
Continued from Part One … “We’re doing 25 shows specifically targeted to 25 markets,” Rundgren says. “And everything that we do will be in the pursuit of preserving the experience […]
25 Feb 2021
Todd Rundgren’s “Clearly Human” Tour: The Ever Popular Geofenced Artist Effect (Part One)
An edited version of this feature appeared previously in New City. For his latest concert tour, perennial wunderkid Todd Rundgren is revisiting his 1989 album Nearly Human. With an expanded […]
24 Feb 2021
Album Review: Miles Davis’ ‘Jack Johnson’ at 50 (Part Two)
Continued from Part One … Side Two of Miles Davis’ Jack Johnson features the same players plus a different lineup, and in fact the aggregation wasn’t credited on the original […]
23 Feb 2021
Album Review: Miles Davis’ ‘Jack Johnson’ at 50 (Part One)
Much is made – and rightly so – of Miles Davis’ landmark 1970 release Bitches Brew. The album represented Davis’ adventurous foray into the (previously unoccupied) space in which rock […]
19 Feb 2021
Boxed Set Review: Iggy and the Stooges – From KO to Chaos
In music fan and critical circles, the concept of “blues police” comes up in conversation from time to time. Simply put, blues police is a pejorative term applied to self-anointed […]