review Archive
15 Oct 2012
Concert Review: Yep Roc 15, Night #1
Note: many more photos from this night are in my previous post. The first night of Yep Roc 15 was superby stage-managed: with the program slated to start at 8pm, […]
11 Oct 2012
Album Review: The Fusion Syndicate
Progressive rock musicians are — by their very nature and out of necessity – an ambitious, adventurous lot. So it’s not an insurmountable conceptual leap to get a bunch of […]
08 Oct 2012
Album Review: 45 Grave – Pick Your Poison
Way back in 1981, a bunch of L.A. scenesters put together a compilation album called Hell Comes to Your House. The now-rare (I have a copy!) punk/proto-goth/death-rock LP featured tracks […]
05 Oct 2012
Album Review: Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here (Experience Edition)
When I reviewed Pink Floyd‘s The Dark Side of the Moon: Experience Edition, I began by explaining that I wouldn’t bother reviewing the original album, the first disc of the […]
03 Oct 2012
Album Review: The Brotherhood of Lizards – Lizardland
Martin Newell is one of the British Isles’ legendary unheralded treasures. Yes, those in the know understand and appreciate Newell’s particular brand of genius: working with a nonexistent budget and […]
02 Oct 2012
Album Review: Bonnie Bishop – Free
Wikipedia tells me that Bonnie Bishop is a country rock singer/songwriter. That may well be, but her musical vocabulary as presented on her debut Free suggests that “country rock” is […]
01 Oct 2012
Album Review: Various Artists – It’s Saturday Night!
Leave it once again to the people at UK-based Fantastic Voyage to put together an interesting compilation of in-danger-of-being-lost American music. Their latest entry is a 3CD set called It’s […]
28 Sep 2012
Two Obscure Albums You Need to Hear
The illustrious (and print-only) London-based Shindig! Magazine ought to be as famous as Mojo and Uncut. It’s not; not yet. As it happens, I write occasionally for Shindig! Several years […]
27 Sep 2012
Album Review: Vince Guaraldi – The Very Best of Vince Guaraldi
The music of Vince Guaraldi could well be described as “jazz for people who don’t like jazz.” And even knowing what little I do about Guaraldi the man, I strongly […]
26 Sep 2012
Album Review: Booker T & the MG’s – Green Onions
Author Rob Bowman knows his stuff. More specifically, he knows his Stax. As one of a very short list of scholars on the subject of the legendary influential (and troubled) […]