review Archive
25 Oct 2010
EP Review: Wheels on Fire – Cherry Bomb
First of all, the fact that Wheels on Fire‘s Cherry Bomb EP is issued on 45rpm vinyl pushes its cool-quotient up several notches before I even get the opportunity to […]
22 Oct 2010
EP Review: The Fairwood Singers – Dawn of the Fairwood Singers
Allen Clapp is not British. But you’ll be forgiven for thinking he is when you listen to the new EP Dawn of the Fairwood Singers. The three-song release boasts a […]
21 Oct 2010
CD Review: John Barry – Revisited
John Barry is a rightly revered figure in the world of film soundtracks. Winner of five Oscars for his work on films including Born Free, The Lion in Winter, Out […]
20 Oct 2010
DVD Review: Johnny Winter – Live Through the 80s
It’s all well and good to demand the highest standards in video quality in a concert film. Technology has progressed to the point where viewers pop in a music DVD […]
19 Oct 2010
Album Review: Ravi Shankar and George Harrison – Collaborations
This one’s a rare and unexpected treat. While any number of Beatles-related films remain officially unavailable — there’s still no legitimate DVD release of Let it Be, nor the ’66 […]
18 Oct 2010
Album Review: Phil Manzanera – The Music 1972-2008
Guitarist Phil Manzanera is one of those characters to which one can rightly apply the phrase “musician’s musician.” Never one to crave — much less hog — the spotlight, Manzanera […]
15 Oct 2010
Bootleg Bin: The Tubes – Remote Control Sessions
Paul Myers‘ excellent book about Todd Rundgren‘s production work will hit the shelves soon (it’s reviewed here). here’s a look at the session tapes for one of the projects discussed […]
12 Oct 2010
Album Review: Brute Force – Confections of Love
Do you ever sit around pondering unlikely musical scenarios? Strange, uncharted-waters of stylistic combinations? Well, if that sort of thing interests you, you’ll know about — or want to know […]
11 Oct 2010
Album Review: Esquerita – Wildcat Shakeout
The accepted and/or conventional wisdom holds that Little Richard (Penniman) was mightily influenced by a character known as Esquerita. As quoted in the liner note to Fantastic Voyage’s expanded reissue […]
08 Oct 2010
Bootleg Bin: John Lennon – Dakota Demos
Tomorrow — October 9 2010 — would have been John Lennon’s 70th birthday. He died just after he turned 40. Here’s a look at some recordings he made in the […]