vinyl Archive
20 Dec 2012
Album Review: Bert Jansch – Heartbreak
While American folk music has never had an especially deep resonance with me, the British Isles variant has long spoken to me somehow. There’s something about the European traditional flavor […]
19 Dec 2012
EP Review: Wanda Jackson – Capitol Rarities
Though her recording career began in the mid 1950s, I only discovered Wanda Jackson sometime around 1993. Sometime that year I was in a Wal-Mart (I rarely if ever set […]
18 Dec 2012
Album Review: Honky – 421
If you will, imagine for a moment an unholy cross of Metallica and ZZ Top. If you can’t wrap your mind around how exactly that might sound, a spin of […]
17 Dec 2012
Reviews: 7″ Records from The Fire Tapes and Concrete Blonde
Concrete Blonde – “Rosalee” b/w “I Know the Ghost” There are countless bands whose most well-known songs end up creating an identity for the act that is (at best) an […]
07 Dec 2012
The Record Collector Interview (of me!)
Tables have turned: today I humbly present an interview that appears in the current issue (December 2012) of Record Collector (UK). It’s a Q&A hosted by celebrated (as in, way […]
31 Oct 2012
45rpm Roundup
The 45rpm vinyl format isn’t dead. In fact, I see more of those little seven-inchers in my mailbox these days than I did even a couple of years ago. Here […]
08 Oct 2012
Album Review: 45 Grave – Pick Your Poison
Way back in 1981, a bunch of L.A. scenesters put together a compilation album called Hell Comes to Your House. The now-rare (I have a copy!) punk/proto-goth/death-rock LP featured tracks […]
06 Sep 2012
Album Review: Ernie Kovacs Presents Percy Dovetonsils…thpeaks
Critics and other observers of pop culture have a number of labels to which they (and by “they” I mean “we”) turn when attempting to classify works of entertainment. One […]
16 Aug 2012
Album Review: Yes – Open Your Eyes (vinyl reissue)
For some bands, personnel changes are the mile markers by which we chart their history. Members come and go, and (usually) each time, the character of the group changes in […]
06 Aug 2012
Album Review: Grateful Dead – History Vol. 1 (Bear’s Choice)
With a title like History of the Grateful Dead, Vol. 1 (Bear’s Choice), newcomers could be forgiven for thinking that this album is a wide-ranging compilation of Grateful Dead tracks. […]