reissue Archive
18 Sep 2014
Boots by George Harrison, Hair by Robert Smith: The Posies Interview, Part Four
Continued from Part Three… Bill Kopp: There’s a track of yours on Yellow Pills Volume 2, “Saying Sorry to Myself.” To my ears it has all the hallmarks of the […]
17 Sep 2014
Boots by George Harrison, Hair by Robert Smith: The Posies Interview, Part Three
Continued from Part Two… Ken Stringfellow: Listening to Failure, it would be hard to tell what we were listening to. Because the album has a very sixties vibe to it, […]
16 Sep 2014
Boots by George Harrison, Hair by Robert Smith: The Posies Interview, Part Two
Continued from Part One… Bill Kopp: I thought it was a nice bit of contextualization to include Veronika Kalmar‘s snarky and negative review in the liner notes of the Failure […]
15 Sep 2014
Boots by George Harrison, Hair by Robert Smith: The Posies Interview, Part One
While grunge or alternative might be the first rock genres that spring to mind when one thinks of the 1990s, an unlikely group from the Pacific Northwest had already gained […]
05 Sep 2014
Album Review: The Small Faces — There Are But Four Small Faces
History has a way of playing tricks on us. How many of us American fans of Beach Boys music remember that Pet Sounds was – upon its original release – […]
03 Sep 2014
Album Review: Wendy Carlos (and Journey) — TRON Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
The soundtrack of the 1982 motion picture TRON showcased the work of synthesist-composer Wendy Carlos in a more commercial context than was normally the case for her work. A new […]
02 Sep 2014
Album Review: Sade — Love is Stronger Than Pride
Love is Stronger Than Pride, the third album from Sade (the band named after lead vocalist Sade Adu) was a commercial juggernaut on its original 1988 release, yielding four hit […]
21 Aug 2014
“How did we get where we are right now?” A Conversation with Todd Cochran (Part 3)
Continued from Part Two… Bill Kopp: We’ve touched on this a bit already: there’s absolutely no guitar on the album. Was that a conscious decision on your part, to arrange […]
20 Aug 2014
“How did we get where we are right now?” A Conversation with Todd Cochran (Part 2)
Continued from Part One… Todd Cochran: And I worked with John Handy, who was on Columbia. To digress a bit back to your earlier question, which is still going around […]
19 Aug 2014
“How did we get where we are right now?” A Conversation with Todd Cochran (Part 1)
Earlier this year, I spent a delightful and fascinating afternoon in conversation with Todd Cochran, aka Bayeté. His 1972 album Worlds Around the Sun has just gotten the deluxe reissue […]