reissue Archive
18 Oct 2019
Album Review: Big Star — In Space
To those who followed Alex Chilton’s musical activities in the 1980s and beyond, the thought that he would ever revisit his Big Star-era music – much less put the band […]
03 Oct 2019
Unmarked Exit: Led Zeppelin’s ‘In Through the Out Door’ at 40 (Part Two)
Continued from Side One… Nothing heard on the first side of In Though the Out Door prepares listeners for what they hear after they flip the record over and drop […]
27 Aug 2019
Televisionary: Josh Mills discusses TV Comedy Pioneer Ernie Kovacs (Part Two)
Continued from Part One … My first exposure to Kovacs was the PBS retrospective series, which I guess was in the late ’70s. Yeah. This record came out in ’76. […]
26 Aug 2019
Televisionary: Josh Mills discusses TV Comedy Pioneer Ernie Kovacs (Part One)
There was no precedent for the comedy of Ernie Kovacs. A pioneering figure in the early days of television, Kovacs brought a bizarre kind of comedy – mostly verbal, but […]
17 Aug 2019
Album Review: Phil Alvin – Un “Sung Stories”
With the departure of Dave Alvin in 1986, it looked the Blasters were finished. So it was no surprise that guitarist Phil Alvin took the opportunity to record and release […]
02 Aug 2019
Album Review: Eddie Senay — Step by Step
Clarence Avant was a Detroit entrepreneur, a figure who wanted to bring to the world Detroit music beyond that which Berry Gordy was doing. In the early ’70s his Sussex […]
25 Jul 2019
Album Review: Miles Davis — Complete Birth of the Cool
I’m not afraid to say it: I know my rock. Especially if it’s prog, psych or powerpop, I feel quite confident sharing my informed opinions on the music. To a […]
23 Jul 2019
Confusion: A Look Back at ‘Identity’ by Zee (Richard Wright and Dave Harris)
Pink Floyd keyboardist Richard Wright was not what one would call a prolific artist. While he composed some superb songs for the Floyd – The Dark Side of the Moon‘s […]
22 Jul 2019
You Are Cordially Invited: John and Yoko’s ‘Wedding Album’ at 40
As the Beatles launched their punningly-named Apple Corps in 1967, the group also started a number of offshoot/subsidiary business lines. Apple Records would be the most well-known (and truly the […]
23 Jun 2019
Album Review: Howlin’ Wolf — Moanin’ in the Moonlight
Though he had already been a performing musician for some two decades, Chester “Howlin’ Wolf” Burnett began his recording career in 1951, cutting sides for Sam Phillips in Memphis. By […]