Saturday, March 15, 2025

Page & Plant - When the Levee Breaks

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No Quarter is a live album by Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, both formerly of English rock band Led Zeppelin. It was released by Atlantic Reco...

Wolf Alice - Freazy

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In the dozen years since Wolf Alice first formed in London, England, the quartet has become one of the most beloved bands in the alternative...

Buffalo Springfield - Rock And Roll Woman - Live 1967

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1969.  I’m 20 years old, a junior at a large university in the Midwest, living in a loft near campus and having a good time:  avoiding class...

Children of the Sün - Emmy

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I can just about say I was a child of the 70s, having been born 10 days before the decade ended. But since childhood I was always told I had...

The Butthole Surfers - Something

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Formed in Austin, Texas, but of no fixed abode for much of their late-’80s heyday, the Butthole Surfers resembled a cross between Ken Kesey’...

Jon Anderson - Olias of Sunhillow

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"Olias of Sunhillow" is the debut full-length studio album by UK progressive rock artist Jon Anderson. The album was released thro...

Steeleye Span - Twa Corbies

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Ray Fisher sang the bleak Twa Corbies, accompanied by her brother Archie on guitar, in 1962 on their EP Far Over the Forth; this recording w...

The Greek Theatre - Byrd of Prey

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Two and half years have passed since I reviewed the previous The Greek Theater album, Broken Circle, but in truth it’s felt like half that t...

K's Choice - A Sound That Only You Can Hear

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As both a solo artist and the front woman for K’s Choice, Belgian rocker Sarah Bettens has long been a staple in the LGBTQ music community, ...

The Dear Hunter - City Escape

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The Dear Hunter started out as a solo project of songwriter-multi-instrumentalist-vocalist Casey Crescenzo, releasing their first album, Act...

Ebb - Dark Lady

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The picture may look as if this is a standard looking release, but here the CD is at the rear of a 48-page full-colour A5 landscape glossy b...

Edwin Starr - Funky Music Sho Nuff Turns Me On

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Edwin Starr made his name with War, the thumping chorus of which became the chant of protesters against America’s involvement in Vietnam. Th...

Crooked Still - Sometimes in This Country

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Neo-bluegrass group Crooked Still combines four musicians with distinguished backgrounds and connections. Singer Aoife O'Donovan, a grad...

Bad Company - Simple Man

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There’s a particular scene in the award-winning 2000 Cameron Crowe film, Almost Famous. In that playful scene, “band aid,” Estrella Starr (p...
Sunday, February 23, 2025

Covers: Fanny - Special Care (Buffalo Springfield) / Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway - White Rabbit (Jefferson Airplane) / PigPen Theatre Co. - The Only Living Boy in New York (Simon & Garfunkel) / Stonefield - Whole Lotta Love (Led Zeppelin) / The Bangles - Open My Eyes (The Nazz) / The Flaming Lips feat. Miley Cyrus and Moby - Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds (The Beatles) / Two Minutes To Late Night - Walking on Broken Glass (Annie Lennox)

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 Fanny - Special Care    Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway - White Rabbit    PigPen Theatre Co. - The Only Living Boy in New York    Stonefi...

Throwing Muses - Counting Backwards

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Having been a Throwing Muses fan since I first saw them play with Pixies some 37 years ago at the Town and Country Club in Kentish Town, it ...

The Shins - The Rifle's Spiral

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James Mercer talks Craig Howieson through the songs that showed him there are no limits in the quest to write the perfect pop song. There ar...