vinyl Archive
11 Apr 2025
EP Review: Little Richard – Try Some of Mine
By 1968, in some quarters, at least, Richard Penniman was considered well past his sell-by date. The man known to the world as Little Richard had already undergone more than […]
10 Apr 2025
Album Review: Various Artists — The Westbound Sound: Foundations
For Record Store Day 2024, Org Music released a superb compilation, The Westbound Sound. That LP drew upon the vaults of Detroit’s venerated Westbound Records, a label at the forefront […]
09 Apr 2025
Album Review: Various Artists – Cavestomp! Volume One
Cavestomp is something of an institution. A largely underground, for those-in-the-know sensation, but an institution nonetheless. Garage rock is a collector’s genre: it’s a style of music that – like […]
08 Apr 2025
Album Review: Lotti Golden — Motor-Cycle
Singer-songwriter Lotti Golden released her debut album in 1969, and a remarkable debut it was. But Motor-Cycle largely disappeared without a trace, failing to make the impact it so richly […]
07 Apr 2025
Album Review: Dennis Coffey – Finger Lickin Pickin Good
Dennis Coffey is one of music’s unsung guitar heroes. A key session player in the Detroit music scene, he played on countless recordings coming out of that city’s most fertile […]
02 Mar 2025
Album Review: The Big Ol’ Nasty Getdown – Repurpose Purpose Vol. 1
One of the many qualities that sets jazz – especially the ‘50s and ‘60s era variants – apart from rock is the loose-aggregation approach. Rather than coalesce around bands in […]
27 Feb 2025
Album Review: Jhelisa – Galactica Rush
One of the more compelling musical undercurrents of the ‘90s and beyond is trip hop. Bands like Massive Attack and Zero 7 crafted a sound that drew from jazz and […]
21 Feb 2025
Album Review: Trees Speak — Mind Maze
As I mentioned in a recent review, Mind Maze, the 2023 album by Arizona-based instrumental band Trees Speak slipped by without my notice. And as I’ve emphasized on many occasions, […]
20 Feb 2025
Album Review: The Elephant 6 Recording Co.
Launched in Louisiana and with connections to Memphis, the Elephant 6 Collective is thought of as a kind of follow-on from the Athens, Georgia musical community that brought forth the […]
06 Jan 2025
Album Review: DB Edmunds — Everybody Knows by Now
DB Edmunds released his debut solo EP, Life’s Wild Ride in 2022. That set was the first new music I had heard from the North Carolina multi-instrumentalist since his days […]