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Never out of style: Firetail and Commodore Charlie review
January 29, 2021
Commodore Charlie – Glass Party
Well, rock music and drugs failed to save the hippies or change the world in any meaningful way. Mostly it just left drug-addled casualties waking the world. The more extreme forms of rock promised some form of revolution, but they…
Hum a tune: Vince Tampio and Alexis Perry release new singles
December 9, 2020
Alexis Perry – Rabid Dog
Sisters are doing it for themselves and, in the case of Ms Alexis Perry, they’re starting on their musical journey early, and they know pretty well where they want to go. In the case of the single Rabid Dog, the destination is clearly…
Michael Ward with Dogs and Fishes – Monkey Stew
J.J. Cale once said that he truly got into songwriting the moment he figured out that he wasn’t going to be able to pay the bills on his guitar playing alone. I’m not certain that Michael Ward has similar…
Tessa Violet & Chloe Moriondo – Words Ain’t Enough
It takes someone extremely confident of one’s own talent to toss away good songs with the full-hearted belief that more material of similar quality will become available to them in the not too…
Pamplona Grup – Otto Ries
Oh, the joys of globalization and thorough musical education. Back in olden times, down in the Balkans, the only instruments Serbians were legally able to own were brass and drums. The reason for that was that the party-starting instruments…