review Archive
20 Nov 2019
Your Favorite Thing: Sugar’s ‘File Under: Easy Listening’ at 25
By the time Bob Mould debuted his rock trio Sugar in 1992, he was a well-known figure in music. With his previous group, Hüsker Dü, Mould had been a key […]
16 Nov 2019
Album Review: Negativland — True False
Note: According to Wikipedia (one of very few even potentially reliable sources of information about Negativland), current and founding member Mark Hosler “may currently reside in or near Asheville, North […]
10 Nov 2019
Album Review: Abraham Jam — White Moon
Customarily, when multiple artists each having his or her own successful career come together, it’s for one of two reasons. They might collaborate simply because it’s fun, because it gives […]
03 Nov 2019
Album Review: Creedence Clearwater Revival — Live at Woodstock
Nobody’s quite sure who coined the adage, “history is written by the victors.” But the inescapable fact remains that nearly every version of history is the product of a subjective […]
02 Nov 2019
Album Review: Zoe & Cloyd — I Am Your Neighbor
The student and feminism movements that came to prominence in the late 20th century both made use of the slogan, “the personal is political.” And whatever side of an issue […]
01 Nov 2019
Before the (so-called) Beginning: Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Then Play On’ at 40
In 1969, eight years before a later lineup of the band began its reign as kings and queens of slick, corporate-approved FM radio soft rock, Fleetwood Mac was still a […]
29 Oct 2019
Gonna Raise Hell: Cheap Trick’s ‘Dream Police’ at 40
Though they had released three excellent albums to date, in 1978 Cheap Trick was still laboring in relative obscurity. The Rockford, Illinois band’s releases – 1977’s self-titled debut, In Color […]
28 Oct 2019
Blu-ray Review: Echo in the Canyon
The creatively fertile and incalculably influential Laurel Canyon scene if the middle 1960s is explored in Echo In the Canyon. It’s not quite a documentary in the sense that it […]
23 Oct 2019
For Example: A Look Back at ‘The Nice’ at 50
It’s unfortunate that when the Nice come up in conversation today, they’re too quickly summed up as “the band that Keith Emerson was in before ELP.” That’s a true enough […]
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 […]