reissue Archive
27 Nov 2025
McLuhan: An Amazing Musical ‘Anomaly’ in 1971 and Today (Part Two of Two)
Continued from Part One… The following is the second part of an edited and expanded version of a feature that was originally published in The Tonearm. How much of the […]
26 Nov 2025
McLuhan: An Amazing Musical ‘Anomaly” in 1971 and Today (Part One of Two)
The following is an edited and expanded version of a feature that was originally published in The Tonearm. One of the strangest albums of the early 1970s is also one […]
27 Oct 2025
Album Review: John Lee Hooker – Boom Boom
John Lee Hooker’s recording career began in 1948 with the release of his landmark (and r&b #1) single “Boogie Chillen.” Though intended as a demo recording, the side was wildly […]
24 Oct 2025
Album Reviews: Two from Velvet Opera
Elmer Gantry’s Velvet Opera (later simply Velvet Opera) is one of countless British acts that didn’t break through in the U.S. Based on their debut, they deserved much better. Two […]
09 Sep 2025
Album Review: Soft Machine – Floating World Live
In my recent look at Soft Works’ Abracadabra, I laid out a very rough sketch of the convoluted timeline that is the Soft Machine story. One of the mileposts in […]
08 Sep 2025
Album Review: Soft Works – Abracadabra
From its beginnings, pioneering Canterbury group Soft Machine was an anomaly: a “rock” group that leaned decidedly toward jazz, yet worked within the rock idiom, as part of the rock […]
11 Aug 2025
Album Review: The Bablers — Like the First Time
The luxurious pop rock of The Bablers is held in great esteem here at Musoscribe World HQ. The chiming guitars, tasty and supremely catchy guitar licks, the creamy vocal harmonies […]
25 Jul 2025
The Cranberries’ ‘No Need to Argue’ Endures (Part 2 of 2)
Continued from Part One… Street says that no importance was placed on begin able to replicate the album’s string parts in an eventual live setting. “That was great for the […]
24 Jul 2025
The Cranberries’ ‘No Need to Argue’ Endures (Part 1 of 2)
This featured appeared previously in SPIN Magazine. Thirty years after its release, the second album from Irish alternative rockers The Cranberries has lost none of its power. Fronted by the […]
18 Jul 2025
Album Review: Robin Trower – For Earth Below 50th Anniversary Edition
Listeners who thrilled to Procol Harum’s “A Whiter Shade of Pale” may have fallen in love with the tune and its J.S. Bach-inspired melody. But that song represented the creatively […]