review Archive
08 Feb 2012
Album Review: Jazz Noire, Darktown Sleaze from the Mean Streets of L.A.
The folks at Fantastic Voyage (and sister label Future Noise) can be counted on to put together thought-provoking compilations. In the past they’ve collected obscurities from the Ember label, and […]
06 Feb 2012
Album Review: The Chris Alvy Band – Art Noise
Naming an album is no small matter. Choose wisely, and you succeed in distilling the contents of the record into a few words: call it Dark Side of the Moon, […]
03 Feb 2012
DVD Review: From Straight to Bizarre
A new DVD from Sexy Intellectual – the outfit responsible for informative and incisive docu-DVDs on Brian Eno and many other influential figures in music – takes an in-depth look […]
31 Jan 2012
EP Review: Third of Never – Life Saver
Life Saver is a various-artists EP. Then again, it’s not. The five tracks on this disc feature CJ Grogan on two tracks, two cuts from Kurt Reil of The Grip […]
27 Jan 2012
Album Revews: Various Artists – Catbone’s ‘Jukin with de Blues’ Series
Catbone is a blues-centric imprint of MVD Audio, and is headed by one Ken Hatley, a blues aficionado and musician himself. A series of releases under the confusingly- and possibly-misleading […]
26 Jan 2012
Hundred-word Reviews: January 2012
Here’s another installment in my occasional series of capsule reviews. My self-imposed limit for this particular exercise is 100 words on each release. The Valery Trails – Ghosts and […]
25 Jan 2012
Album Review: River Guerguerian – Grooves for Odd Times
If you’ve ever witnessed or experienced it, you’ll remember. You’re in a church of some sort – or maybe it’s a community campfire gathering. Whatever: the musical accompaniment launches into […]
23 Jan 2012
Album Review: Maggie and Terre Roche – Seductive Reasoning
Since my discovery of their music, The Roches have long been a sentimental favorite for me. Having grown up on a steady diet of pop and rock, I didn’t take […]
20 Jan 2012
Album Review: Jethro Tull – Aqualung 40th Anniversary Special Edition
A few weeks ago, Jethro Tull‘s highly regarded 1971 album Aqualung was released in a special 40th Anniversary package. But let’s be honest for a moment: this isn’t 1989 (by […]
19 Jan 2012
Album Review: John Moremen’s Flotation Device
Not being any sort of sport fan, I generally don’t go in for sports metaphors in my writing. But occasionally, there’s no better way to make a point. So here […]