rawk Archive
03 Apr 2020
Album Review: Pop Co-op — Factory Settings
It was more than a decade ago when the Spongetones released what would turn out to be their final album, Scrambled Eggs. The group went out (recording-wise) on a high […]
01 Apr 2020
30 Days Out, April 2020 #1: Zoe & Cloyd, The Claudettes, Sparrow Pants, Dr. Bacon
We’re living in unprecedented times, aren’t we? No fooling. “30 Days Out” was launched nearly six years ago as a means of letting people in and around my adopted home […]
31 Mar 2020
One (More) Time: King Crimson’s ‘THRAK’ at 25
As guitarist and founder Robert Fripp likes to say, King Crimson is less a band and more “a way of doing things.” Throughout its long and storied history, that has […]
20 Mar 2020
Album Review: Early Day Miners — Placer Found
When I think of shoegaze, I tend to conjure up thoughts of gauzy, heavily layered music with a somnabulant, faraway vibe. But of course the subgenre has more variety than […]
19 Mar 2020
Album Review: The Bye Bye Blackbirds — Boxer at Rest
It’s been nearly three years since the release of The Bye Bye Blackbirds’ previous album, Take Out the Poison (see below for a link to my review of that record). […]
18 Mar 2020
Album Review: Smoke Fairies — Darkness Brings the Wonders Home
The influence of American blues forms upon the music of Led Zeppelin is widely acknowledged; though they took it in a heavier direction that sometimes tended to exaggerate its more, […]
17 Mar 2020
Album Review: Norman — Buzz and Fade
Had it not been for Don Valentine personally contacting me to inquire if I was familiar with it, the existence of Norman’s Buzz and Fade might have slipped completely by […]
16 Mar 2020
Album Review: Eamon Ra — Meat Bones Chemicals Electricity
The album title telegraphs that Eamon Ra is something of an eccentric artist. That the LP comes packed with a magazine-sized lyric/comic book only serves to reinforce that impression. And […]
15 Mar 2020
30 Days Out, March 2020 #2: Sister Ivy, Graham Nash, Wham Bam Bowie Band, Eilen Jewell
UPDATE March 17: It looks as if all live shows are canceled for the foreseeable future. Please support these and other artists by buying their music online, viewing (and paying […]
13 Mar 2020
Marinho’s Emotional Openness is on Display on ’tilde’ (Part Two)
Continued from Part One … Even with herds of creative artists endeavoring to make music, those cities have at least some sort of infrastructure for all of it. “Whereas in […]