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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
ALBUM REVIEW: THE GOLD NEEDLES, “Through A Window”
Another new signing from Marty Scott’s legendary Jem Records, The Gold Needles, who hail from Hull, U.K., are arbiters of…
The MusicTAP Interview: Amy Petty
After two profound records, Mystery Keeps You (2008) and House of Doors (2010), musician Amy Petty seemed to fall off…