review Archive
12 Jan 2022
Album Review: Memphissippi Sounds — Welcome to the Land
The blues featured guitar-and-drum duos long before that lean and mean lineup became a popular approach in other musical idioms. So there’s a long and proud tradition for what Memphissippi […]
10 Jan 2022
Album Review: Kasim Sulton – Kasim 2021
Though his list of musical credits is long and impressive – work with Cherry Vanilla, Meat Loaf, Joan Jett, Blue Öyster Cult and many others – if you know the […]
09 Jan 2022
Album Review: Low Level Clouds — s/t
There was a time, a half century ago, when the concept of one-man (one-person, really) “bands” was quite novel. Working in the studio and taking advantage of an impressive dexterity […]
08 Jan 2022
Album Review: Sneezy — Open Doors
A funk/jam band based in Chicago, Sneezy has released Open Doors as its third album. Don’t be put off by the jam label; while elements of that noodlesome, unfocused style […]
07 Jan 2022
Album Review: Robby Steinhardt — Not in Kansas Anymore
Robby Steinhardt is best known as violinist for Kansas. He passed away recently, but not before completing an ambitious project. Titled in a perhaps too on-the-nose manner, Not in Kansas […]
04 Jan 2022
Album Review: Nick Frater — Earworms
There’s an ineffable character that connects bands like Cheap Trick, Material Issue, The Raspberries, Matthew Sweet, Ben Folds and a select few others. Their various approaches to music may not […]
26 Dec 2021
Album Review: Billy Bragg — The Million Things That Never Happened
Let nearly 40 years pass, and some things are almost certain to change. If your exposure to Billy Bragg commenced with his 1983 debut Life’s a Riot with Spy vs […]
24 Dec 2021
Musoscribe’s Best of 2021: Reissues and Archival Releases
An impressive batch of reissue, archival and otherwise historic releases has characterized 2021. Even with so many choices, I was able to narrow my own Musoscribe’s Best of 2021 down […]
23 Dec 2021
Book Review: Brian Atkinson — True Love Cast Out All Evil
Though he left this dimension a few years ago, Roky Erickson continues to fascinate and inspire. I was fortunate enough to see him more than a decade ago onstage at […]
22 Dec 2021
Book Review: ‘Beyond the Printed Page’ by Alan Niester
Niester has had a long career, writing for mainstream papers about music; that proud tradition is, sadly, one that no longer exists. Good luck finding a daily that covers live […]