Editor’s Notes: Confronting the Return of “Bohemian Rhapsody” and “Suspiria”
We live in strange times. I don’t have to tell you that. You probably see it all around you, in strained relationships with family, friends, and co-workers. I often joke…
Interview: Andy Tillison of Kalman Filter
Andy Tillison (The Tangent, Kalman Filter) talks electronica, ocean music, and prog for dinner Exo-Oceans by Kalman Filter It’s a pleasure to chat with you, Andy. Thanks man… pleasure is…
Review: Noemienours – “As A Beare Doth Her Whelps”
The German guitar-composer Noemie Dal on Sept. 10 will release her third outing, a Bob Weston-mastered LP and digital release via Bandcamp, under the sobriquet Noemienours, titled As A Beare…
CD Review: Bird Streets, S/T
Bird Streets is the nom du disque of musician John Brodeur on this project with Jason Falkner (The Three O’Clock, Jellyfish, etc. and many fine solo albums). It’s a fresh…
RE:Visit – David Bowie, “Outside” (1995)
To say that David Bowie ever stopped being respected would be a grievous falsehood, but he certainly fell out of fashion, particularly in the 1990s. Point of fact, most “legacy”…
Rolling Stones Curated VA Set Celebrating Original Bluesmen In Confessin’ The Blues
In what is a departure of Rolling Stones delivery, we have an interesting compilation arising from the Rolling Stones camp that is not Rolling Stones music. Rather, it is a…
Review: Exhalants – S/T
To call Austin’s Exhalants a bombastic noise-rock trio is to call Everest a molehill. These guys, who released an epic, self-titled full-length via Self Sabotage Aug. 24, write with acid…
CD Review: Lauren Daigle, Look Up Child
Lauren Daigle sounds like an old soul while singing the classic hymn “Turn Your Eyes” on the album Look Up Child. Daigle’s vocal is at its Billie Holiday-ist, which is…
Friday Night Videos: August 31, 1984
1 GHOSTBUSTERS –•– Ray Parker, Jr. (Arista) 2 WHAT’S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT –•– Tina Turner (Capitol) 3 STUCK ON YOU –•– Lionel Richie (Motown) 4 WHEN DOVES…
This Mortal Coil Trilogy Reissued On CD and LP Sets
For three brilliant albums, Ivo Watts-Russell (founder of the equally brilliant 4AD label) and his The Mortal Coil collective created classics that still playback well today some thirty years later!…
Mike +The Mechanics To Reissue Limited Edition 30th Anniversary 2LP/2CD of Living Years
Whenever the later, hits-laden era of Genesis officially went to sleep, the Mike Rutherford-led Mike + The Mechanics would awake and record, tour, and otherwise make anxious Genesis fans quite…
New 6CD Mott The Hoople Shoebox Set, Mental Train: The Island Years 1969-1971
As the much-loved sixties began to dissipate, the freshness it cultivated with freedom of expression, in music, clothes, politics, and religion had seeped ever so cool into the early ’70s…