rawk Archive
23 Sep 2020
Album Review: Various Artists — Double Whammy!
Nuggets did it first, and Nuggets did it best: the early ‘70s 2LP compilation curated by Lenny Kaye brought together a widely disparate collection of underappreciated songs from the ‘60s, […]
22 Sep 2020
Hello Hello: A Look Back at Caravan’s Second Album (at Fifty)
Rock fans who bought LPs in the late ‘60s and early 1970s may recall that some labels made use of the records’ inner sleeves as means to hype their other […]
21 Sep 2020
Album Review: Professor and the Madman – Séance
Don’t let the goofy name dissuade you from checking this one out: they may call themselves Professor and the Madman, but this group features some heavyweights. Led by Alfie Agnew […]
17 Sep 2020
Album Review: Venus Furs — s/t
If you’re going to launch a musical project that evokes memories of a Velvet Underground song (“Venus in Furs” from 1967’s The Velvet Underground & Nico) you had better deliver […]
13 Sep 2020
Album Review: Staring Into Nothing – Love
The album opens with an understated track (“Winter”) that’s not especially indicative of where things will go musically. It’s part of a four-song suite, and “Spring” is (perhaps as expected) […]
10 Sep 2020
Album Review: The Brothers Steve – #1
Following a proud rock ‘n’ roll tradition of misleading band names, The Brothers Steve aren’t brothers, and none is named Steve. The L.A.-based band plays its own brand of powerpop, […]
08 Sep 2020
Album Review: Tyler Keith – The Last Drag
Do you like rock ‘n’ roll? I mean the sweaty, greasy, sloppy, noisy stuff, the kind of music that gets your heart pumping and makes you want to get involved […]
04 Sep 2020
Second Verse, Better Than the First: The Choir Reunites (Part 3 of 3)
Continued from Part Two … Jim Bonfanti explains that it was the reunion of The Raspberries that would eventually lead to The Choir getting back together. “We were working on […]
03 Sep 2020
Second Verse, Better Than the First: The Choir Reunites (Part 2 of 3)
Continued from Part One … The Choir certainly knew how to rock hard; the group’s cover of The Kinks’ “David Watts” made that plain. But the musicians were at their […]
02 Sep 2020
Second Verse, Better Than the First: The Choir Reunites (Part 1 of 3)
Omnivore Recordings presents a live reunion of Cleveland late-’60s proto-progressive band Ask a casual rock fan if he or she has heard of The Choir, and you’re likely to get […]