review Archive
25 Jul 2012
Album Review: Tommy Roe – Devil’s Soul Pile
When you hear Tommy Roe‘s name, you can’t help but remember “Dizzy” and/or “Sheila,” two of his hits from the 1960s. And that was a long time ago. His latest, […]
24 Jul 2012
Album Review: The Zombies – Recorded Live in Concert at Metropolis Studios London
The Zombies are one of those sixties acts who somehow never got their due on the first go-round. Chalk it up to bad timing, a glut of great music; it […]
23 Jul 2012
Album Review: Redd Kross – Researching the Blues
Leave it to the bratty (though now fortyish-plus) McDonald brothers to title an album Researching the Blues. Anyone familiar with their musical approach – perhaps best described as pop-punk yet […]
23 Jul 2012
Album Review: Asia – XXX
Listening to XXX, I can’t help but think two things. One, this is really catchy music. Despite the fact that the group has always been built around seriously ace players […]
19 Jul 2012
Album Review: Various Artists – Buttons: From Champaign to Chicago
Powerpop has always seemed to have its evangelists – the ones who shouted across the rooftops about the transcendent power of their chosen genre. Jordan Oakes was responsible for the […]
18 Jul 2012
Album Review: Lucero – Women & Work
There comes a point at which labels become useless. Early on – in the sixties, I guess, maybe earlier – music critics and other sage souls coined various terms to […]
17 Jul 2012
Album Review: Sonny Landreth – Elemental Journey
When genre labels get applied, guitarist Sonny Landreth is often put into a blues (and sometimes Americana) bag. But a listen to Elemental Journey, his twelfth and latest album makes […]
16 Jul 2012
EP Review: Jimbo Mathus – Blue Light
Musically, the 1990s were an eclectic time. You had all sorts of strains of music showing up on the pop cultural landscape. One of the more outré ones (commercially speaking, […]
13 Jul 2012
CD Review: Buddy Guy – The Definitive Buddy Guy
It’s often dangerous to make generalizations, yet sometimes doing so is an effective method to put things in context. With that caveat, I suggest that among some of the giants […]
12 Jul 2012
DVD Review: Little Richard – Live at the Toronto Peace Festival 1969
In retrospect, one shouldn’t have any right to expect a show-stopping performance from Little Richard in 1969. He was more than a decade past the apex of his career and […]