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25 Mar 2019

Hundred-word Reviews, March 2019 Part One

Americana, funk, indie, new release, pop, powerpop, prog, rawk, review, rockabilly

I can’t point to specific reasons as to why this is the case, but in recent months there has been more than the typical amount of really good music finding […]

31 Mar 2018

Hundred-word Reviews: Reissues, Archival Releases, Compilations

By Bill Kopp

alt-country, Americana, avant-garde, blues, classical, incredibly strange, powerpop, prog, psych, pub rock, r&b, rawk, reissue, review, soul

My shelf full of albums to be reviewed has run out of space. So once again it’s time for a raft of hundred-word reviews. All sixteen titles in this roundup […]

29 Nov 2016

Hundred-word Reviews for Nov./Dec. 2016, Part 7 of 10

By Bill Kopp

new release, pop, powerpop, prog, rawk

Farewell Milwaukee – FM Style: heartland jangle-rock Jangling guitars, good-timin’ harmonica, well-worn chord changes … those are the key ingredients in the musical recipe for this album. Familar echoes of […]

13 Aug 2014

Hundred Word Reviews for August 2014, Part 3

By Bill Kopp

funk, new release, pop, prog, rawk, review

Five new releases are the focus of this clutch of hundred-word reviews. Analog Son – Analog Son The name might conjure mental visions of a synthesizer outfit, but the sounds […]

01 Feb 2013

A Conversation with Thijs Van Leer of Focus

By Bill Kopp

interview, new release, prog

American audiences know Focus – if they know the Dutch progressive group at all – for their left-field 1971 hit single “Hocus Pocus.” Yeah, the one with the yodeling, whistling, […]

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