Archival Review: Paul McCartney, “The McCartney Years”
01/11/08 Reviewed by – Matt Rowe What can one say about Paul McCartney that isn’t already known throughout the galaxies? You’re right, very VERY little, if anything. Many people have…
Archival Review: The Black Keys, “Attack & Release”
05/19/08 Reviewed by – Matt Rowe Attack & Release is the fifth album by Ohio duo, The Black Keys. Produced by noted producer and musician, Danger Mouse (one-half of Gnarls…
Archival Review: Panic At The Disco, “Pretty, Odd”
04/16/08 Reviewed by – James Hrivnak Some time after the release of A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out, Panic at the Disco dropped the exclamation mark and found their parents’…
Archival Review: Radiohead, “In Rainbows”
01/14/08 Reviewed by – James Hrivnak If you are one of the many, like myself, who felt alienated by Kid A upon its release (I’ve since grown to appreciate and…
Archival Review: ELO, “Out Of The Blue”
02/14/07 Reviewed by – Matt Rowe Out of the Blue was an ambitious Jeff Lynne project that paid off with a flurry of hits that included the double album opener,…
Archival Review: Led Zeppelin, “Mothership”
11/21/07 Reviewed by – Matt Rowe Little need be said about the juggernaut that is Led Zeppelin. Formed in the late ‘60s – 1968 to be exact – as the…
Archival Reviews: Magazine
08/31/07 Reviewed by – Matt Rowe Magazine Real Life Magazine Secondhand Daylight Magazine The Correct Use of Soap Magazine Magic, Murder and The Weather Howard Devoto, after a very short…
Archival Review: David Bowie
09/17/07 Reviews by – Lindsay Planer This week, let’s hear it for the Bowie … David, that is! We’re spinning a trifecta of recent multi-media arrivals that reassert David Bowie’s…
Archival Review: Marillion, “Somewhere Else”
06/08/07 Reviewed by – John Dunphy Marillion Somewhere Else “Rarer still that a band should still be bettering itself after nearly a quarter of a century.” So concludes the current…
Archival Review: Pink Floyd, “Piper At The Gates Of Dawn”
10/01/07 Reviewed by – Matt Rowe It’s been 40 years since the release of The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, the seminal debut by the band that employed Syd…
Archival Review: ELP, “Brain Salad Surgery”
11/26/07 Reviewed by – Matt Rowe The fans had been anxiously awaiting Brain Salad Surgery when it was released in late 1973. Brain Salad Surgery took significantly longer to produce…
Archival Review: U2, “The Joshua Tree – 20th Anniversary”
11/30/07 Reviewed by – Matt Rowe U2 began life producing 3 strong post-punk albums that were socially conscious on a lyrical level, and musically excellent, before veering off the traveled…