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CrowsVsRavens and Justin Webb & The Noise Reviewed
October 9, 2024
CrowsVsRavens – Revised Reality
Progressive rockers are a breed apart. Part hopeless romantics and part monks with endless supplies of patience and discipline, they are the equivalent of the novelists who write 1000-page tomes dedicated to imagined worlds when they…
Your Westies and Folklore Society Reviewed
October 3, 2024
Your Westies – Cherries
We all wait anxiously for the “New Sound,” that thing that will make us music listeners and record collectors find something wholly novel and exciting to ping our collective hopes on. But although new sounds and techniques do spring up…
The Marley Woods and Bang Bang Jet Away Reviewed
October 3, 2024
The Marley Woods – Good Times
There wasn’t a lot of for negativity back at the dawn of pop music. This was, after all, music set to appeal primarily to teenagers who had inherited a brave new world after the war. A couple of decades later, pop music had embraced…
Tennessee Frisky and Idaho Green Reviewed
September 25, 2024
Tennessee Frisky – Monsanto
I’m not sure if you’ve been reading any other reviews lately, buying glossy magazines or checking out the evening news. If you are part of that shrinking demographic, you may have been lost in the sway of it all. It’s likely you…
Zulitas and LIL DUSTY G Reviewed
September 25, 2024
Zulitas – The Trilogy
Nobody wants to work too hard unless they have some kind of chemical imbalance, making them toil their life away. Musicians aren’t any different, and especially not the people in the pop world. Why there’s all that business about dressing…
St. Jimi Sebastian Cricket Club and Sunbuzz Reviewed
September 23, 2024
St. Jimi Sebastian Cricket Club – Stockholm Central Station
It’s not a coincidence that all of the videos of The Beatles smiling, laughing and playing around are from their earliest days of touring and making records. Those are famous images that even your grandma…
The Versions and Tom DiCillo Reviewed
September 21, 2024
The Versions – Wake Up
The magic of strange worlds is always just a dream away. If tock music can still teach us anything in the age of the ultra-real, it is that. In fact, maybe it’s vital that we learn. In a time when every piece of news gets instantly filtered…
When Ritchie Blackmore Finally Got His Way: Top 11 Rainbow Songs
September 21, 2024
Rainbow was the brainchild of guitar magus Ritchie Blackmore and unapologetically an attempt to gatecrash the charts. With the side project active for more than two decades, Rainbow did manage to secure hits and, what’s more, to incorporate trends that varied wildly…
David Bowie - “Hunky Dory” Reviewed & Revisited
September 10, 2024
David Bowie, among his numerous and considerable talents, was a great archivist. Chiefly, he documented his life and interests. All major moments are represented. There is a haunting music video, “Lazarus,” shot just before his death. There are recordings and pictures of…