review Archive
07 Oct 2025
Album Review: The Gregg Allman Band – One Night in DC: May 15, 1984
The Allman Brothers Band always stood far above its so-called peers in the Southern rock movement. Calling the ABB Southern rock does their legacy a disservice; the band was always […]
30 Sep 2025
Hundred Word Reviews, September 2025: Prog
It’s Hundred-worder time again here at Musoscribe World HQ. What’s on? Prog! Lotsa, lotsa prog. Mostly new, but one very noteworthy reissue. Markus Reuter – Truce <3 Markus Reuter is […]
24 Sep 2025
Album Review: The Brigadier — Sailing the Seven Neuroses
I reviewed The Brigadier’s Wash Away the Day back in 2017, and named it one of the year’s best. Here we are eight years later, and the Brigadier (Matt Williams […]
23 Sep 2025
Album Review: D.K. Harrell – Talkin’ Heavy
In this era of “blues lawyers” – dilettante guitarists who can afford pricey gear and private lessons, but who possess no true feel for the blues – the emergence of […]
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 […]
05 Sep 2025
Album Review: Dave Specter – Live at Space
SPACE is a popular club in the Chicago area; its calendar includes top local, regional and national acts. Being a hotbed of electric blues, the venue has its share of […]
04 Sep 2025
Album Review: The Haas Company – Thirteen
I’ve written before of my belief that fusion gave birth to smooth jazz. The latter being an unforgivable sin, I look askance at any new release presenting itself as fusion. […]
27 Aug 2025
Album Review: All Things Swamp – Dressed
So-called “swamp rock” and similar music substyles reflect the sound and culture of Louisiana’s bayou country. But music informed by the traditions of New Orleans and its environs has never […]
26 Aug 2025
Film Review: Deep Roots: The Art and Music of Bill Steber and Friends
Documentarian Robert Mugge started making films in the early 1970s. Focusing primarily on music, Mugge’s subjects have included everything from reggae (1983’s Cool Runnings: The Reggae Movie) and zydeco (2015’s […]