review Archive
19 Dec 2012
EP Review: Wanda Jackson – Capitol Rarities
Though her recording career began in the mid 1950s, I only discovered Wanda Jackson sometime around 1993. Sometime that year I was in a Wal-Mart (I rarely if ever set […]
18 Dec 2012
Album Review: Honky – 421
If you will, imagine for a moment an unholy cross of Metallica and ZZ Top. If you can’t wrap your mind around how exactly that might sound, a spin of […]
17 Dec 2012
Reviews: 7″ Records from The Fire Tapes and Concrete Blonde
Concrete Blonde – “Rosalee” b/w “I Know the Ghost” There are countless bands whose most well-known songs end up creating an identity for the act that is (at best) an […]
14 Dec 2012
Album Review: Various Artists – Surf Age Nuggets
Across many traditions, December is the height of the gift-giving season. I’m here to tell you that for the music lover in your life – at least one who appreciates […]
13 Dec 2012
Album Review: Phil Manzanera and Anna Le – Nth Entities
I’m the first to admit it: I generally don’t “get” poetry. I appreciate good lyrics, but as often as not my attention is drawn more to the sound and texture […]
12 Dec 2012
Album Review: Mitch Ryder – Live at Rockpalast 1979 + 2004
Mitch Ryder is a tricky figure to pin down. Though he enjoyed a brief string of hits in the mid 60s (first with the Detroit Wheels and then as an […]
11 Dec 2012
Album Review: Renaissance – Tour 2011 Live in Concert
“Carpe diem,” quoth the poet Horace. Even in a dead language, wiser words have rarely been written. And while F. Scott Fitzgerald limited his observation to Americans when he claimed […]
10 Dec 2012
Album Review: The Moving Sidewalks – The Complete Collection
When The Moving Sidewalks are mentioned at all, it’s general in the context of them being a forerunner of ZZ Top (guitarist Billy Gibbons fronted The Moving Sidewalks). But the […]
06 Dec 2012
Album Review: Creedence Clearwater Revival – Ultimate CCR
Few rock acts have seen their catalog subjected to as much incessant compilation-izing as Creedence Clearwater Revival. Not counting live albums and the Golliwogs juvenilia, the group released seven albums […]
05 Dec 2012
Album Review: Clayton Brothers and Friends – The Gathering
Over the last several years, I’ve been developing a taste for – and appreciation of – jazz. Not the smooth “jazz flavours” stuff of 70s/80s late-night FM radio; my new-found […]