Classic Album Review: Bon Jovi | Bounce
This came out in 2002 – or at least that's when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
Some people just don’t...
Classic Album Review: Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers | The Last DJ
This came out in 2002 – or at least that's when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
Conventional wisdom says that...
Now Hear This: Churchwood | 6: The Boule Oui
THE EDITED PRESS PRESS RELEASE / BIO: “6: The Boule Oui is (spoiler alert!) the sixth full-length album by Austin-based avant-garde blues band Churchwood. Like their previous outings, it's...
Now Hear This: The Rocky Valentines | The Rocky Valentines EP
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “When Charlie Martin sings, ‘Saw my dad with friends, played in bands; never thought this would be the plan,’ it feels like he was fighting...
Now Hear This: Cheba Wahida | Jrouli
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Pure raï fire from Algeria on the ever-searching Nashazphone label — an absolute must for anyone snagged on contemporary, Arabic North African music.
Sending a plume...
Now Hear This: Maha | Orkos
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Orkos is a completely unknown album by Salah Ragab’s Cairo Jazz Band vocalist Maha, recorded in Cairo in 1979. It features productions by Hany Shenoda...
Next Week in Music | Oct. 10-16 • The Short List: 10 Titles You...
Compared to the past couple of weeks, things are actually kind of slow this time around — at least when it comes to big-name releases. Still, when your short list...
Next Week in Music | Oct. 10-16 • The Long List: 370 Releases On...
John Lennon would have turned 82 years old today, and Who bassist John Entwistle would have been 78. On happier notes, Jackson Browne turns 74, PJ Harvey will be...
Next Week in Music | Oct. 10-16 • New Books
Leonard, Linda and Led Zep. Bob, The Beatles and Bergmann. Along with Charlie, Sly, King Curtis and Human League, they're some of the bigger names hitting the bookshelves next...
Next Week in Music | Oct. 10-16 • On TV
A little of this, a little of that — and a lot of everything else. That's what you'll be seeing on your favourite small screen next week, thanks to...
Stylus Counsel | Area Resident’s Records
Recently I managed to find a 2021 reissue of the marvellous 1990 World Party album Goodbye Jumbo. I wore out my CD copy from high school and haven't had...
Thunder Pie | The Dash-Fire Days of Private Deviney (Part I)
“There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.” — Helen Keller
In the woods...
Albums Of The Week: Chico Romano | Vol. 5
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Chico Romano is the newly established umbrella moniker for the bedroom recordings, full-band live performances, and songwriting project of New Jersey-based artist Rob Romano. His...
Albums Of The Week: Caustic Casanova | Glass Enclosed Nerve Center
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “On their fifth album, the brain-frying Glass Enclosed Nerve Center, D.C. riffonauts Caustic Casanova pull an expansive range of sounds into their tight, hyperkinetic core...
Albums Of The Week: Blind Illusion | Wrath Of The Gods
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Thrash as a primitive, earthy genre has given us many greats: Metallica, Slayer, Exodus, Death Angel, Heathen and the like. But the more calculated, technical,...
