review Archive
23 Jul 2014
Hundred-word Reviews July 2014, Part Three
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 […]
22 Jul 2014
Hundred-word Reviews July 2014, Part Two
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 […]
21 Jul 2014
Hundred-word Reviews July 2014, Part One
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 […]
18 Jul 2014
Album Review: Eric Clapton – Unplugged (CD+DVD)
Here’s a slightly unusual candidate for reissue: Eric Clapton‘s 1992 Unplugged album. To my knowledge, this massively commercially successful album has never gone out of print, which begs the question: […]
15 Jul 2014
Short Cuts: July Mini-reviews, Part Two
Here’s another entry in my short-review series; these three are instrumental albums. Vince Guaraldi Trio – A Boy Named Charlie Brown An entire generation grew up with the music of […]
11 Jul 2014
Album Review: The Roaring 420s – What is Psych?
There’s a bubbling-under sort of cottage industry in sixties revivalism. And it’s been around for at least a couple of decades now, occasionally popping into the mainstream consciousness to enjoy […]
10 Jul 2014
Book Review: One Way Out
The members of The Allman Brothers Band – and there have been many – tend to think of themselves as a jazz band. The onstage interplay owes, they argue convincingly, […]
09 Jul 2014
Legends Do Stuff: A Dad-Rock Roundup
From a demographics perspective, I suppose I am the target market for releases such as these. How else to explain compilations that have no thematic or time-period cohesiveness? Legends Get […]
27 Jun 2014
Book Review: Power Pop Prime, Vol. 3
Powerpop fans are in some ways like metal fans. They – or shall I say we – are hardcore fanatics of a narrow slice of the pop music spectrum, and […]
26 Jun 2014
Book Review: Bob Dylan, American Troubadour
Allow me to begin with some relevant disclosure: I’m much more a “music guy” than a “lyrics guy.” I can know the words to a song – sing along with […]