Review: Days Of Abandon – The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
For the first album by NYC’s fine, The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, the band offered a raucous collection of fast moving songs with a dream-pop vocal sound. Released…
Review: Live At The Avenue B – Iggy Pop (DVD)
Rock ‘n’ Roll is pretty damn primal at its core. The closer to the heart of it you get, the hotter the core boils. I really don’t think that it…
Review: The Rise And Fall Of The Clash (DVD)
This is a sad film. In it, there is a murderous plot, protagonists, a Svengali-like antagonist, and plenty of bad things occurring within a story that should have had a…
The Ambient Series Review: Tree Of Life – Loren Nerell and Mark Seelig
Ambient music is a style that knows few boundaries. It can be as unnerving as a walk in a strange place, as therapeutic as a full body rub, and as…
Review: Get Back – Pink Mountaintops
These days, it’s hard to tell which band of his Stephen McBean favors most. While the more appropriate answer would likely be “none and all”, it is interesting that it…
Review: Love Me Leave Me – Anji Bee
Anji Bee, the honey-voiced chanteuse of Lovespirals, has gone and made what many fans of the band was waiting a long time for, her own solo album. Any fan aware…
Review: Songs From A Movie – Mary Chapin Carpenter
From album to album, there is an anticipation that Mary Chapin Carpenter might not do as good as her last one. Well, it was just too damn good. How does…
Review: Olias Of Sunhillow – Jon Anderson (SACD-Stereo Hybrid)
After the legendary sessions of Relayer, the band elected to take some decompression time to release solo works. Every member produced an album that, in many ways, thrilled the fans…
Review: Love And Gravity – Mary Fahl
Album releases from Mary Fahl are not predicated on a yearly basis. Nor are they expected every other year. If you’re a Mary Fahl fan, then you wait until she…
Review: Billion Dollar Babies – Alice Cooper (SACD)
Fans of ’70s Rock know all too well the classic works of a band by the name of Alice Cooper. And while that name ultimately became the moniker of the…
Review: Small Faces Greatest Hits – The Immediate Years 1967-1969 [Mono Remaster] – Small Faces
The talent level of Small Faces was unusually ahead of its time way back in the ’60s. When everything was mostly centered in pop/rock with an intent to achieve TOP40…
Review: Blue Horizon – Wishbone Ash
Wishbone Ash have a wonderful history that cannot be ignored. And while I’m not one to call every release of theirs from beginning to now, perfect, I’ve generally enjoyed most…