review Archive
02 Dec 2021
Hundred-word Reviews December 2021 #1
Happy December! While I’ve been busy with activities related to the impending publishing of my book Disturbing the Peace: 415 Records and the Rise of New Wave, I’ve found time […]
30 Nov 2021
Hundred-word Reviews, November 2021
This has been an unusual year, and that’s putting it mildly. With life slowly and tentatively inching in the direction of new-normal, it’s time to bring back my Hundred-word Reviews. […]
29 Nov 2021
EP Review: Limina – Hidden Spaces
Tyler Durham is best known for scoring film and games. His latest project is Limina, and Hidden Spaces is a 12-inch vinyl EP. Recorded over the course of May to […]
28 Nov 2021
Album Review: Peter Bilt Group — Do It Up
One set of rhetorical questions that I encountered during my research for my new book was as collection of what-ifs. Of the nearly 30 bands that released music on the […]
27 Nov 2021
Album Review: The Pulsators — Let’s Play!
From Petaluma, California comes the six-piece band The Pulsators. The band is led by drummer-vocalist Johnny Campbell, a musician who came to my attention as a member of late’ 70s […]
26 Nov 2021
Album Review: Gabe Stillman — Just Say the Word
From the roaring slide guitar figure that opens “Give Me Some Time,” on Gabe Stillman’s new Just Say the Word, it’s clear that this youthful musician from Pennsylvania is steeped […]
25 Nov 2021
Album+Blu-Ray Review: Lynyrd Skynyrd – Live at Knebworth ‘76
Released in September 1976, the double LP One More from the Road has stood the test of time as the definitive (and for many years only) recorded document of Lynyrd […]
23 Nov 2021
Album Review: Blue Glass – Jardin des Étoiles
The placid aural landscape that opens Jardin des Étoiles sets the tone for this collection: contemplative, slightly woozy and with a hint of danger. The artist describes the album as […]
22 Nov 2021
Album Review: Jupiter Cyclops – Prophets, Prospectors & Madmen
This swaggering Phoenix metal outfit swings for the fences on its debut release. With guitar pyrotechnics woven into a band aesthetic that focuses on ensemble playing, Jupiter cyclops delivers the […]
21 Nov 2021
Album Review: Chillingsworth Surfingham
Instrumental surf rock is a beloved sub-style in some quarters of the rock universe. And I proudly reside in one of those corners. Especially when it’s done with equal parts […]