review Archive
19 Aug 2012
Bootleg Bin: Kirsty MacColl – 06-28-92 Glastonbury
Kirsty MacColl was famous for a few things. One, her dad was famed folksinger Ewan MacColl. Two, she wrote and recorded the original version of the girl-group pastiche “They Don’t […]
19 Aug 2012
Bootleg Bin: Love – 10-24-93 North Hampton MA
Having paid his debt to society, convicted felon Arthur Lee surprised all interested parties by returning to the music scene in the 90s more musically focused than he’d ever been. […]
18 Aug 2012
Bootleg Bin: New Cars — Road Rage Tour, June 6 2006 – Wolf Trap, Vienna VA
By 2006, everything seemed to get recorded. From every single date of David Gilmour‘s solo tour, to a Peter Tork set with his blues group in a Dallas bar, tapers […]
18 Aug 2012
Bootleg Bin: Procol Harum — April 1969: Los Angeles and San Francisco CA
The most soulful of the so-called “progressive” groups, Procol Harum is best known for the mega-hit “A Whiter Shade of Pale.” Yet fans know that the group produced many songs […]
17 Aug 2012
Hundred-word Reviews: August 2012
Here’s another installment in my occasional series of capsule reviews, generally covering indie releases. My self-imposed limit for this particular exercise is 100 words on each album. Niels Nielsen – […]
16 Aug 2012
Album Review: Yes – Open Your Eyes (vinyl reissue)
For some bands, personnel changes are the mile markers by which we chart their history. Members come and go, and (usually) each time, the character of the group changes in […]
15 Aug 2012
Album Review: Various Artists – The Red Bird Girls
You say you like Phil Spector‘s production? You like those girl-group sounds of the era that were so imbued with the stylistic flourishes of the producer, arrangers and composers that […]
14 Aug 2012
DVD Review: Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – The Lost Broadcasts
My music-loving friends (a redundant phrase, that) and I occasionally indulge in an old joke: whenever the subject of certain musical acts come up, one of us will mention how […]
13 Aug 2012
Album Review: Stevie Jackson – (I Can’t Get No) Stevie Jackson
Belle & Sebastian have long been critics’ darlings, and for good reason. Never the most prolific of groups, the Scottish pop outfit has focused instead on creating works of merit […]
06 Aug 2012
Album Review: Grateful Dead – History Vol. 1 (Bear’s Choice)
With a title like History of the Grateful Dead, Vol. 1 (Bear’s Choice), newcomers could be forgiven for thinking that this album is a wide-ranging compilation of Grateful Dead tracks. […]