Lightning Dust Returns With New Album, Spectre
When the Canadian duo, Lightning Dust, released their last album (Fantasy – 2013), the world was a different place. Then, I was a long-time resident of Southern California. Now, I…
Album Review: Bruised Sky by We Are Kin
With Bruised Sky, We Are Kin inhabit this third meaning, taking progressive rock far beyond mere "prog" or even "rock" into neo soul and deliberate soundscapes grounded in compelling synth…
The Replacements Augment Don’t Tell A Soul With 4CD/1LP Collection Of Rare and Live Tracks With Dead Man’s Pop
Throughout The Replacements‘ brief career, which professionally lasted from 1981 through 1990, Westerberg and crew issued a short supply of excellent albums, seven in all. One of those, Don’t Tell…
Review: 18th & Addison – “Leeches”
New Jersey gets a bad wrap, though sometimes it’s for good reason. I was born and raised in the Garden State, and, having spent the better part of 25 or…
40th Anniversary Limited Edition 4CD/2LP Book Set Prepared For Ramones Classic, It’s Alive
Since their eponymous and historic 1976 debut, The Ramones had livened up music with an intended punk flavor indicative of their NYC locale. From that great album and through the…
Review: The Flaming Lips, “King’s Mouth – Music and Songs”
Arriving in 1983, the band The Flaming Lips was already an anachronism, unapologetically psychedelic, and prone to agitating against the mainstream even as it longingly gave it some side-eye. That…
Profile: Scott Morgan’s Loscil gets abstract
Scott Morgan doesn’t listen to his work as Loscil after it’s been released. The Canadian avant-ambient sound-sculptor has little concrete sense of his discography. But, before the recordings are available…
RE:Visit – John Fred and His Playboys, “Judy In Disguise (With Glasses)” (1967)
How one misheard song title led to a hit that sounded nothing like the mistaken song.
Review: MELK – “Listen”
There’s not very much that’s astounding about “Listen,” the one-song debut from Reno soul quartet MELK, released Tuesday on streaming services. That is, there’s not very much that’s astounding about…
Jethro Tull Celebrate 40th Anniversary of Stormwatch With 6-Disc Force 10 Edition
Jethro Tull is representative of classic ProgRock as much as Yes or even ELP. In their own delivery, Jethro Tull performed well throughout a richly changing musical landscape, never compromising…
Iggy Pop To Release New Album, Free
For me, Iggy Pop helps to define the magic and power, the illusion and fable, and the merge of Rock and Roll. Any of his performances are more powerful than…
Black Sabbath – The Vinyl Collection 1970-1978 9LP Box To Be Re-Released
Black Sabbath certainly – and heavily – contributed to the metal style that was taken to innumerable styles and levels after them. Using society, politics (and their numerous wars), and…