review Archive
08 Jun 2011
Album Review: Dave Rave – Live With What You Know
Some albums aren’t very immediate. That is, they require the listener to spend some quality time with them, revealing their charms over repeated listening. Other records — and this is […]
07 Jun 2011
Album Review: Frank Sinatra – Ring-A-Ding-Ding
From its assertive opening snare roll — followed quickly by about ten seconds of bombastic, big band brio — Frank Sinatra’s Ring-A-Ding-Ding makes its presence known: it’s here and it’s […]
06 Jun 2011
Album Review: Wobbler – Rites at Dawn
Did you hear the news? Musical archivists recently discovered a completed-yet-unreleased master tape for the album Yes recorded during the long break between Relayer and Going For the One! Well, […]
03 Jun 2011
Album Review: Kool Kat Does Jellyfish
I’ve made my thoughts on the subject clear many times before: I look askance at tribute albums. There are simply too many opportunities to go wrong with such projects. And […]
02 Jun 2011
Book Review: I Slept With Joey Ramone
You know those cool Pete Frame rock family trees? One of those could come in handy when dealing with The Ramones. The group started with Johnny, Dee Dee, Joey and […]
01 Jun 2011
Album Review: Keb Darge & Little Edith Present Legendary Wild Rockers
Keb Darge is someone you can count on to unearth some interesting music. He rifles through dusty stacks of records so you don’t have to. He’s brought his archivist’s sensibility […]
31 May 2011
Album Review: Dirty Water 2 – More Birth of Punk Attitude
It wasn’t very long ago at all that Year Zero released the excellent compilation Dirty Water: The Birth of Punk Attitude. Curated by Kris Needs, the set took a quite […]
30 May 2011
Album Review: The Paperhead
Lots of artists have jumped on the retro-psych bandwagon over the years. And as many have jumped back off again. Still, the list of groups who effectively conjured the vibe […]
27 May 2011
Album Review: Booker T & the MGs – McLemore Avenue
Tribute albums are a common, generally unexciting fixture of the modern music scene. The formula is, well, formulaic: round up an allstar cast of current flashes in the proverbial pan, […]
26 May 2011
Concert Review (sorta): Garage a Trois
First, the bad news. I was scheduled to attend a recent local show featuring Garage a Trois. The hard-to-describe band’s sound is a heady mix of jazz, punk, rock and […]