vinyl Archive
16 Jul 2012
EP Review: Jimbo Mathus – Blue Light
Musically, the 1990s were an eclectic time. You had all sorts of strains of music showing up on the pop cultural landscape. One of the more outré ones (commercially speaking, […]
13 Jan 2012
Album Reviews: ? and the Mysterians – Action / 96 Tears
In 2010 Collectors’ Choice Music began an interesting and historically relevant series of reissues and repackages. Through a licensing agreement with a company called ABKCO, CCM gained access to the […]
06 Jan 2012
Album Review: Allen Clapp & His Orchestra – Mixed Greens
You know that old saying: “If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it.” Or something like that. By all available evidence, this axiom holds true in […]
08 Dec 2011
Album Review: Apteka – Gargoyle Days
It’s difficult to know what one’s in for, listening to the opening strains of the first (and title) track on Apteka‘s Gargoyle Days. Washes of heavily treated (reverb, distortion) guitars […]
18 Nov 2011
Seven-inch Vinyl Roundup, Part Two
Continued from my last entry… Dave Rave / Madnuts – Double Single I loved Dave Rave’s Live With What You Know, so I figured I’d dig his side of the […]
17 Nov 2011
Seven-inch Vinyl Roundup, Part One
A delightful trend-in-miniature is the resurgence of vinyl as a medium. I was sadder than most when the music industry migrated over to CDs in the 1980s, and never did […]
14 Sep 2011
Tommy Keene: A Parade of Timeless Albums
Consistency is often thought of as being anathema to creativity. Ralph Waldo Emerson famously asserted that “a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” Yet there are a special […]
11 Apr 2011
Album Review: Candy Golde
It might well be that calling Candy Golde a supergroup is an exercise in hyperbole. The fact is that each of the new group’s four members has a pedigree of […]
07 Apr 2011
Not Awesome.
I am not a film critic. That simple fact is one of two reasons I will not be reviewing Anywhere, U.S.A. a movie now out on DVD. (The other reason […]
22 Mar 2011
Single Review: White Orange
The a-side of White Orange’s single “…And This is Why I Speak to You in Parables” unfolds with insistent sheets of gauzy, hazy, druggy guitar figures. A sludgy Sabbathy rhythm […]