reissue Archive
08 May 2020
Album Review: Nancy Priddy — You’ve Come This Way Before
In 1967, a young singer named Nancy Lee Priddy was part of a group of musicians assembled to assist in the making of Songs of Leonard Cohen, the debut release […]
04 May 2020
Album Review: Phast Phreddie and Thee Precisions — Limbo
As the seemingly endless parade of retrospective compilations – Nuggets, Pebbles, Green Crystal Ties, Picadilly Sunshine and on and on – has made plain, the mid to late ‘60s were […]
28 Apr 2020
Album Review: The Grip Weeds — Giant on the Beach (Deluxe Anniversary Edition)
Without delving too deeply into the semantics of the phrase, defining power pop can be a daunting proposition. There are some fine if a tad lightweight acts whose music gets […]
24 Apr 2020
Album Review: Seiche — Demo Press
By the dawn of the 1980s, progressive rock was decidedly out of fashion. Neither mainstream radio – which never really embraced the genre, save for free-form FM stations – nor […]
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 […]
31 Jan 2020
Album Review: The Velvert Turner Group
Jimi Hendrix’s influence on music is incalculable. He affected the course of music not only as a fiery, innovative guitarist but also in his groundbreaking use of the recording studio-as-instrument. […]
24 Jan 2020
Album Review: Marshall Crenshaw — Miracle of Science
Marshall Crenshaw’s experience in the world of major labels had come and gone by the time he made his sixth studio album, Miracle of Science. After the brilliant one-two punch […]
23 Dec 2019
Musoscribe’s Best of 2019: Reissue/archival Releases
2019 was another great year for reissue and archival releases. A few stood out as especially noteworthy; those are listed and briefly described) below. More details (my reviews, interviews … […]
15 Dec 2019
Hundred-word Reviews for December 2019, #3
Here’s the final installment of the year (and the decade!) of my quick, condensed album reviews. Ten titles, 100 words each. Seven are new releases; the remaining three are archival […]
22 Oct 2019
Album Review: Roger C. Reale and Rue Morgue — The Collection
An obscure and overlooked bit of music history is revived with a reissue/archival release by Roger C. Reale and Rue Morgue. Reale led a band that was together for a […]