reissue Archive
05 Feb 2021
The Making of Wilco’s ‘Summerteeth’ (Part 2 of 2)
Continued from Part One… Jay Bennett had bought a classic Mellotron, Stirratt remembers. The band first came into direct contact with the Chamberlin – a close mechanical relative of the […]
04 Feb 2021
The Making of Wilco’s ‘Summerteeth’ (Part 1 of 2)
An edited version of this feature was published previously in Goldmine. Looking to the past pointed the way to the future Released in 1999, Wilco’s third album Summerteeth represented a […]
03 Feb 2021
Album Review: The Ed Palermo Big Band — The Adventures of Zodd Zundgren
Frank Zappa’s body of work is massive. Even if one limits oneself to the music released during his lifetime, it’s a lot. Me, I have his first 45 or so […]
26 Jan 2021
Album Review: The Gun Club — Miami
I recall sometime in 1982 when a friend attempted to turn me on to The Gun Club’s Miami. I wasn’t having it: I got most of the way through “Carry […]
03 Jan 2021
Album Review: Little Richard — The Rill Thing
By the end of the 1960s, it was reasonable to assume that Little Richard’s rock ‘n’ roll career was moribund. Though he was one of music’s most important figures, by […]
02 Jan 2021
Album Review: Little Richard — King of Rock and Roll
Just slightly more than a year after releasing a well-received (if non-charting) comeback album in The Rill Thing, Little Richard returned with the audaciously-titled King of Rock and Roll in […]
27 Dec 2020
Album Reviews: Three from Little Richard
Quite recently, Omnivore Recordings reissued a pair of long out-of-print Little Richard albums, The Rill Thing and King of Rock and Roll. The first was an impressive updating of Little […]
20 Dec 2020
Album Review: Two Pound Planet — Songs from the Hydrogen Jukebox
The story of Two Pound Planet is the story of countless bands: they write and played some great music, got the chance to work with a great producer who understood […]
15 Dec 2020
Book Review: Barrett: The Definitive Visual Companion
There have been quite a few books written about Syd Barrett. Some have emphasized the more lurid and sensational aspects of his story, including his drug use, mental illness, dismissal […]
30 Nov 2020
Album Reviews: Redd Kross — Phaseshifter and Show World
Over the span of a decade-plus, Hawthorne, California band Redd Kross navigated the tricky path from punky indie band to one that sounded like the epitome of arena rock. And […]