Rant: The Josh Fix Problem
If all we do is insist that they just don't make 'em like they used to, we get what we get.
Robert Vaughn & The Shadows’ “Love And War” In Reissue Crowdfunder
The crowdfunding campaign to bring Robert Vaughn & The Shadows' Love and War to digital is on now.
MYRA HOLDER, “Four Mile Road”
MusicTAP is thrilled to announce the re-issue of Myra Holder’s 1989 Four Mile Road – seen by some as a proto-Americana classic. The real Four Mile Road existed in rural…
A RE-VISIT/RE-APPRECIATION: BINKY PHILIPS, “Binky Philips”
Author, raconteur, guitarist, scene-maven and all-around good guy, Binky Philips has been THE stalwart of New York rock since the early 1970’s. His long-standing friendships with various members of Kiss…
RE: Visit – RTZ, “Return To Zero” (1991)
In an infinite universe where all iterations of events are possible, RTZ was never going to make it in any of them.
MusicTAP Top 4 Albums of 2019
Real talk now, folks. You’re going to read a lot of year-end/decade-end listicles this week. People love these kinds of lists, but there’s a fatal flaw to most of them:…
RE:Visit – Gazpacho, “March of Ghosts” (2012)
As a writer and reviewer, I am constantly confronted by my own limitations. We seek to convey a feeling in words, and not even words expressed in the air, but…
#MetalMonday: “The Battle of Tyr/Odin’s Court/Valhalla” by Black Sabbath
If you’re not gonna write your umpteenth song about the devil, might as well do a suite about Thor & Odin instead, amirite?
ALBUM REVIEW: VAN DUREN, “Waiting – The Van Duren Story” (original documentary soundtrack)
In trying to write this “review”, I have to make some immediate disclosures: this will not be easy nor objective. That’s not meant in a negative fashion. You see, I…
REISSUE REVIEW: THE POSIES, “Amazing Disgrace”
Omnivore Recordings continue with their campaign of Posies reissues and conclude with the last album released by the band on Geffen/DGC, 1996’s Amazing Disgrace. One listen will tell you that…
RE:Visit – Pearl Jam, “Binaural” (2000)
Dw. Dunphy focuses on the often overlooked 2000 album from Pearl Jam which found them leaving their comfort zones.
MusicTAP Interview: Mark Allender, Executive Producer for Charlie Peacock “West Coast Diaries Vol. 2” Reissue
There is a vast history of music out there that few people know of, some of which never made it to compact disc. Others were released so far back in…