review Archive
08 Dec 2009
Album Review: IZZ – The Darkened Room
How accurate would it be to categorize New York-based IZZ as a progressive rock group? To paraphrase a former U.S. president, it depends what your definition of IZZ is. The […]
07 Dec 2009
Album Review: The Dukes of Stratosphear – The Complete and Utter Dukes
There’s a proud — if not properly appreciated — tradition in rock and pop music: recording under a pseudonym. As far back as 1965 the Four Seasons released a cover […]
03 Dec 2009
Album Review: The Chesterfield Kings – Live Onstage…If You Want It
Graham Gouldman — yeah, the guy who wrote “For Your Love,” “Heart Full of Soul” and other hits for the Yardbirds, and was one of the original members of 10cc […]
01 Dec 2009
Holiday Music: Christmas in Memphis
Way back in ancient history (well, late 2002) a bunch of friends and musicians dubbed themselves Husky Team and got together for a quick, one-off project: recording a bunch of […]
30 Nov 2009
Album Review: The Twilight Hours – Stereo Night
Things could have gone so differently. In the early 90s, rock music found itself at the latest in a long series of crossroads. There wasn’t much of lasting value happening […]
27 Nov 2009
Album Review: Pugwash – Giddy
It’s a bit like being a kid again, coming into the living room on Christmas morning. That’s as apt as any a metaphor for the initial listen to Giddy, a […]
26 Nov 2009
DVD Review: John Lennon & the Plastic Ono Band Live in Toronto ‘69
In 1988 the D.A. Pennebaker-directed Sweet Toronto concert film was released. Its appearance at that late date — the concert had taken place nearly twenty years earlier — was itself […]
25 Nov 2009
Concert Review: thenewno2 at The Fillmore, Charlotte NC 11/03/2009
As the old cliché goes, sometimes the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. In 2007 Dhani Harrison debuted his new band (originally to be called beatson ), thenewno2. While […]
24 Nov 2009
Album Review: Lost & Found: Real R’n’B & Soul
Thank goodness for crate-diggers. Were it not for the efforts of hardcore music fans — and ones possessing some considerable influence — many examples of wonderful and under-the-radar music would […]
23 Nov 2009
Album Review: Putumayo Presents Jazz Around the World
Putumayo’s top-selling India surveyed pop styles of that country. This, their other high-profile release of 2009, is Jazz Around the World. The sleeve describes it as “original songs and standards […]