review Archive
29 Mar 2010
Album Review: Ray Charles – Genius + Soul = Jazz
Musical dilettantes sometimes dabble in a wide variety of forms for all the wrong reasons. Sometimes they do it simply because they can: maybe their status or financial wherewithal means […]
26 Mar 2010
Concert Review: Moody Blues – April 21, 2010
Maybe you’ve been lucky. Maybe you’ve had the pleasure of attending a concert where the performer was truly, really, wholly into it. I was lucky the other night. I saw […]
25 Mar 2010
Album Review: Various Artists – Next Stop…Soweto Vol. 2
South Africa in the 60s, 70s and 80s was becoming increasingly isolated. Culturally and politically, the minority-rule apartheid country faced increasing ostracizing. Many countries — in an all-too-rare-example of unified […]
24 Mar 2010
Album Review: Hoodoo Gurus – Purity of Essence
If you’re a fan of the Hoodoo Gurus‘ best work, you tend to expect a fairly high standard in terms of quality songwriting, arrangement and that elusive takes-your-breath-away factor. And […]
23 Mar 2010
DVD Review: Frank Zappa – The Freak Out List
Great artists are always more than the sum of their influences. But understanding the amalgam of influences that inform the sensibility of an artist can be a useful window into […]
22 Mar 2010
Album Review: Jonny Lang – Live at the Ryman
At this late date there’s less point than there used to be in calling Jonny Lang a young blues guitarist. Now in his thirties, Lang is a veteran performer and […]
19 Mar 2010
DVD Review: No-man – Mixtaped
Steven Wilson is one busy dude. In addition to fronting Porcupine Tree (for whom he writes virtually all of the music and lyrics), he’s also involved in a number of […]
16 Mar 2010
Album Review: Ant-Bee – Electronic Church Muzik
[updated February 2011 — ed.] Warning: not for the faint-hearted. Electronic Church Muzik, a new album slated for 2010 release NOW AVAILABLE HERE from Ant-Bee (aka Billy James) is another […]
15 Mar 2010
DVD Review: Mick Taylor – New Morning: The Tokyo Concert
The people who’ve left the Rolling Stones add up to an amazing amount of talent. The late and lamented Brian Jones may well have had a lot more to give […]
11 Mar 2010
DVD Review: Jethro Tull – Live at Avo Session Basel
In his best-selling 2005 book Healthy Aging, Andrew Weil MD sets forth a compelling and ultimately convincing argument concerning the benefits of aging. Using the examples of wine, whiskey, cheese, […]