review Archive
23 May 2009
Album Reviews: The Replacements Reissues (2008)
The Replacements – Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash (Rhino/Rykodisc) The Replacements – Stink EP (Rhino/Rykodisc) The Replacements – Hootenanny (Rhino/Rykodisc) The Replacements – Let it Be (Rhino/Rykodisc) […]
22 May 2009
DVD Review: Otis Redding — Respect Live 1967
This brief DVD is an effort to collect all extant performance footage of Otis Redding in the months before his untimely death. On that level, it succeeds, more or less. […]
21 May 2009
Album Reviews: Rascals / Young Rascals Reissues (2007)
Young Rascals: The Young Rascals (Collectors’ Choice) Collections (Collectors’ Choice) Groovin’ (Collectors’ Choice) Rascals: Once Upon a Dream (Collectors’ Choice) Freedom Suite (Collectors’ Choice) See (Collectors’ Choice) Search and Nearness […]
20 May 2009
Album Review: The Pretty Things — S.F. Sorrow
The 1968 album S.F. Sorrow by The Pretty Things is an exemplar of a band, pushed to the wall, rising to the occasion and producing a classic. Prior to this, […]
19 May 2009
Album Review: Porcupine Tree — Lightbulb Sun
The 2008 reissue of Lightbulb Sun makes one of the rarest parts of the Porcupine Tree catalog readily available again. The group’s seventh album of studio material, Lightbulb Sun was […]
18 May 2009
Album Review: R. Stevie Moore — Meet The
R Stevie Moore is one odd dude. I can’t say whether he’s the sort that listeners would wish to “have a beer with”, but his music is worthwhile for the […]
17 May 2009
Album Review: Moby Grape – The Place and the Time
Moby Grape was (and remains) one of those unlucky star-crossed acts that never, ever seemed able to catch a break. From the beginning, things seemed to go wrong for them. […]
16 May 2009
Album Review: Nick Lowe – Jesus of Cool: 30th Anniversary Edition
Nick Lowe had a growing (if still somewhat underground) reputation in 1979. As a producer — mostly for Stiff Records — he had worked the boards on stunning a number […]
15 May 2009
Album Review: BB King and His Orchestra — Live
The opening sonic salvo of B.B. King Orchestra and His Orchestra Live might be jarring for longtime B.B. King listeners. A Vegasy revue number, “B.B.’s Theme” really has little to […]
14 May 2009
Album Review: Jackdawg — s/t
Jackdawg is a heretofore unreleased one-off project from 1990. The group features Stu Cook from Creedence Clearwater Revival, plus John McFee and Keith Knudsen from the Doobie Brothers. The fifteen […]