Albums Of The Week: Matt Andersen | The Big Bottle Of Joy
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “The Big Bottle of Joy is about celebration — hard-won, overflowing, exuberant celebration. Matt Andersen’s latest long-player lives up to the grand title from its...
Albums Of The Week: The Nude Party | Rides On
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “For The Nude Party, nearly a decade has flown by in the blink of an eye. In that time, the New York band has released...
Albums Of The Week: Sleaford Mods | UK Grim
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “War, rising energy costs, inflation. A sclerotic political class and a divided country. The post-Brexit malaise, acts of national self-harm and other doomed flights from...
Albums Of The Week: Van Morrison | Moving On Skiffle
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “It should come as no surprise that Van Morrison has made another album inspired by skiffle. Or that it takes a homemade style that exploded...
The Less You Know, The Better | Three Intriguing New Releases Worth Hearing
A little mystery can be a good thing. Especially these days.
Sprinkled amid the hundreds of gushing press releases, oversharing bios and TMI missives that assault my email on a...
Now Hear This: Various Artists | Tapetopia 013: GDR Undergroundtapes 1980-1990
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Tapetopia 013 is a retrospective of the catalogue numbers tt 001 to tt 015.
The East Berlin avantwave band Ornament & Verbrechen (tt 001) emerged from...
Now Hear This: Ulaan Khol | Milk Thistle
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Steven R. Smith has been releasing music as a member of bands (Mirza, Thuja) and as a solo artist under his own name and various...
Now Hear This: Leeches! | Periodical Fits
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Periodical Fits is a six-track 7” by Australian punk luminaries Leeches! The release extends the band's repertoire, pushing a heavier and more melodic delivery than...
Now Hear This: Slander Tongue | Monochrome
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “The ’70s rock stalwarts of Slander Tongue put the pedal to the metal, crank down the windows, crankup the tunes and high-tail it out of...
Now Hear This: Fixtures | Hollywood Dog
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Fixtures are a six-piece Brooklyn band. Their sound combines elements of power pop, post-punk, krautrock, and ’90s indie-rock. One review of their last EP, Weak...
Area Resident’s Classic Album Review: The Rolling Stones | Metamorphosis
The Rolling Stones put out two compilation albums in 1975 — two! It was one of the few years of the ’70s they had no new studio album out....
Classic Album Review: The Juliana Theory | Love
This came out in 2003 – or at least that's when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
Love, huh? Well now,...
Classic Album Review: David Olney | The Wheel
This came out in 2003 – or at least that's when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
After three decades in...
Classic Album Review: Ben Harper | Diamonds On The Inside
This came out in 2003 – or at least that's when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
For a guy who...
Classic Album Review: Hootie & The Blowfish | Hootie & The Blowfish
This came out in 2003 – or at least that's when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
I didn’t read the...
