Review: Meeting With Hans – “Genius Loci”
Multi-instrumentalist Tomas Svoboda is clearly out to toy with listeners’ expectations of recording fidelity. The Czech musician’s third LP as Meeting With Hans – titled Genius Loci, available now on…
The Beatles Celebrate 50 Years of Abbey Road With New Mix
What can be said about The Beatles these days. They were there at the infancy of Rock; they were the first progressive band changing as they moved along. And with…
ALBUM REVIEW: THE ANDERSON COUNCIL, “Worlds Collide”
The Anderson Council, in a just world, would be known all over the country. They should be, by now. And with a little luck and people getting it, with this…
RE:Visit – Robert Plant, “Now And Zen” (1988)
Dw. Dunphy takes a deep dive into Robert Plant's career redefining solo album Now and Zen.
ALBUM REVIEW: THOSE PRETTY WRONGS, “Zed For Zulu”
Let’s start with an instant disclaimer – I love this band. I’m already a committed fan. So it’s not like any great surprise that I would want to sit down,…
Penguin Cafe To Release New Album, Handfuls of Night
Penguin Cafe Orchestra left behind a beautiful library of five avant-garde classic albums (back when avant-garde was used as a term to classify hard to classify art-styled music). From their…
Review: Blood Year – Russian Circles
The music of Russian Circles has always created a refreshing, if not assault-like quality. In fact, it’s surprising to me that they’re not better known than they are. With seven…
Review: Picastro – “Exit”
Liz Hysen’s reliably dissonant acoustic guitar might ground her as Picastro, but her work on six strings, however interesting it might be, is only the sparest introduction to this highly…
Review: Demons – “Uglier Americans”
As protest songs go, this one, yep, is pretty damn angry. “Uglier Americans” – the new MAGA-targeting protest song, out today online, from Virginia noise-rock quartet Demons – is a…
Review: The New Routine by Port Noir
The rhythmic power of Motörhead melded to the heavy groove of Rage Against The Machine then filtered through the pop sensibilities of a Muse or Randy McStine = sophisticated dynamism.
Review: Blue With Lou – Nils Lofgren
Lou Reed has become one of Rock’s most enigmatic stars, equalled by few. His reticence with the press is legendary. But his affiliation with those whom he had great respect…
Review: Rick Altizer, “Bread”
Rick Altizer has returned with a new album called Bread, and it’s been far too long since we last heard from this fine singer/songwriter. Bread is best described as a…