review Archive
25 Mar 2021
Album Review: The Tummies — 9:30 Girl
I love beat groups. Cue up anything from early Beatles to obscure ‘60s acts like freakbeat combo the Renegades (you haven’t lived until you’ve heard their cover of Bill Haley […]
21 Mar 2021
Album Review: Reggie Quinerly — New York Nowhere
As a jazz fan, my own particular tastes tend toward music that hits a sweet spot right between old and new. I dig specific jazz forms: bop, post-bop, some fusion […]
20 Mar 2021
Album Review: Jim Basnight — Jokers, Idols & Misfits
What an interesting idea for an album. Yes, a collection of covers presented by an artist who writes his own music isn’t at all without precedent. But on Jokers, Idols […]
14 Mar 2021
Album Review: The Braam Brothers — Landscapes
Have you ever wondered what Cowboy Junkies might’ve sounded like with a male lead singer? Me neither, but here’s the answer anyway: The Braam Brothers on their latest album, Landscapes. […]
12 Mar 2021
Album Review: Pylon — Pylon Box
With great and due respect to R.E.M. – and, to a lesser extent, the B-52’s – there was a lot more significant musical activity going on in and around Athens, […]
11 Mar 2021
Album Review: Matthew Sweet — Catspaw
Matthew Sweet’s mix of hard rock crunch, indelible melodic sense and razor-sharp hooks has served him well over the course of more than a dozen solo albums and collaborative projects. […]
05 Mar 2021
Album Review: Pink Floyd – Delicate Sound of Thunder (2020 expanded reissue)
Twenty-two years after its initial release, it’s worth considering just how remarkable an album Pink Floyd’s Delicate Sound of Thunder was in 1988. Though Pink Floyd had released 13 albums, […]
28 Feb 2021
Album Review — Kimon Kirk — Altitude
There’s always a place for chiming, ear-candy rock with folk and singer-songwriter tendencies. And that’s what’s offer on Altitude, the new album from Boston-based Kimon Kirk. This guitarist and songwriter […]
27 Feb 2021
Album Review: D-Town Brass — Demiurge
Much of what passes for avant garde music tends toward a kind of seriousness, a dour approach that screams, “this is art!” and all but insists that the listeners revel […]
24 Feb 2021
Album Review: Miles Davis’ ‘Jack Johnson’ at 50 (Part Two)
Continued from Part One … Side Two of Miles Davis’ Jack Johnson features the same players plus a different lineup, and in fact the aggregation wasn’t credited on the original […]