review Archive
07 Aug 2014
Album Review: The Move — Live at the Fillmore 1969
Here’s another case of a long-circulating bootleg finding official release (see also: yesterday’s review of an Iron Butterfly live set). The Move were big in the UK, but went largely […]
06 Aug 2014
Album Review: Iron Butterfly — Live at the Galaxy 1967
There’s been a spate of previously-unreleased live albums released of late; this week I’m focusing on five of them. The first, a 1975 set by Magma, offered way-out music and […]
05 Aug 2014
Album Review: Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band — Live From Harpo’s 1980
The late Captain Beefheart is one of those rare creatures. The casual music fan is unfamiliar with his name; a subset of those who know of him have actually heard […]
04 Aug 2014
Album Review: Magma — Zühn Wöhl Ünsaï / Live 1974
To some – okay, to most – the idea of a progressive jazz-rock group performing music in an obscure language of their own making might seem, laughable, pretentious, or…laughably pretentious. […]
01 Aug 2014
EP Review: The Fauntleroys — Below the Pink Pony
I can’t find the specific quote I’m looking for at the moment, but there’s an entry in Lillian Roxon’s Rock Encyclopedia (the original 1969 edition, not the lousy and lifeless […]
31 Jul 2014
Concert Review: The Musical Box, 22 July 2014, The Orange Peel, Asheville NC
When most modern-day listeners think of Genesis, their thoughts turn to the Phil Collins-fronted trio that released a string of pop albums and singles in the late 1970s and early […]
29 Jul 2014
Album Review: NRBQ — Brass Tacks
NRBQ are one of America’s great musical treasures. Though they’ve never enjoyed the sort of commercial success of, say, a Creedence Clearwater Revival or The Band, the catalog of this […]
28 Jul 2014
Album Review: Bobby Patterson – I Got More Soul!
If you happened upon a spin of I Got More Soul!, the new album from Bobby Patterson, you could be forgiven for thinking he’s the latest in young new recording […]
25 Jul 2014
Hundred-word Reviews July 2014, Part Five
All this week, I’ve been working to reduce the contents of my in-box to manageable levels; these are the last five of 25 albums in that effort, each review adhering […]
24 Jul 2014
Hundred-word Reviews July 2014, Part Four
I’m bound and determined to reduce the contents of my in-box to manageable levels, so this week I’ll be covering 25 albums, each adhering to a 100-word limit. Don’t mistake […]