vinyl Archive
02 Oct 2020
Album Review: Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets — Live at the Roundhouse
In the 21st century, it’s not a bit unusual for well-known and celebrated music artists to tour on the strength of material they recorded and released a half century ago. […]
28 Sep 2020
Album Review: Parish Hall — s/t
One of the longest lists that exists is the one noting recordings that were overlooked because there was simply too much good music already happening. It’s a delight – especially […]
25 Sep 2020
Album Review: The Greyboy Allstars with Fred Wesley — West Coast Boogaloo
The Greyboy Allstars have a rich history. Founded more than 25 years ago, the soul jazz group came together originally to work as a backing band for DJ Greyboy, a […]
24 Sep 2020
Album Review: Blaine Campbell and the California Sound – Under the Tidal Wave
It’s no small feat to create a body of work that is simultaneously (a) chiefly inspired by the work of one particular artist and (b) distinctive and artistically significant on […]
11 Sep 2020
Album Review: Louis Armstrong – Live in France
One of the most important and influential figures in the music of the 20th century, Louis Armstrong had a recording career that spanned from the early 1920s through 1970, the […]
10 Sep 2020
Album Review: The Brothers Steve – #1
Following a proud rock ‘n’ roll tradition of misleading band names, The Brothers Steve aren’t brothers, and none is named Steve. The L.A.-based band plays its own brand of powerpop, […]
09 Sep 2020
Album Review: Wipers – Is This Real?
Often held up as the first punk band of consequence from the Pacific Northwest, Wipers (no article; just Wipers) played against type and – unlike so many others of the […]
08 Sep 2020
Album Review: Tyler Keith – The Last Drag
Do you like rock ‘n’ roll? I mean the sweaty, greasy, sloppy, noisy stuff, the kind of music that gets your heart pumping and makes you want to get involved […]
07 Sep 2020
Album Review: Wolfgang Lackerschmid and Chet Baker – Ballads for Two
In an odd way, it’s entirely fitting that nowhere on the sleeve or label does Ballads for Two indicate when the album was recorded or originally released. It’s fitting because […]
20 Aug 2020
Album Review: Martin Denny — Exotic Moog
Introduced in the middle 1960s, Dr. Robert A. Moog’s invention – the Moog Modular synthesizer – changed the musical landscape. Groundbreaking releases like Switched on Bach made it plain that […]