Now Hear This: Strange Attractor | Good Boy Bad Boy
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “You can file this new one from Sudbury garage-punks Jeff Houle and Strange Attractor in your mental record bin next to VOM, The Angry Samoans,...
Classic Album Review: Various Artists | Rise Above
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):
Henry Rollins does not...
Albums Of The Week: Ann Wilson | Fierce Bliss
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “There is a calm, serene spirituality about Ann Wilson in 2022 which instantly draws you to her. She feels like a warm, wise someone who...
Classic Album Review: Pixies | Pixies (aka The Purple Tape)
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):
On the list of...
Rewinding 2019 | The Primo Punk Releases
One man's punk is another man's rock. And one man's rock is another man's pop. So some of these albums could probably fit into multiple categories. But they all...
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...
Classic Album Review: Quincy Jones | Q: The Musical Biography
This came out in 2001 – or at least that's when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
Plenty of famous people...
Classic Album Review: Howard Zinn | Stories Hollywood Never Tells
This came out in 2001 – or at least that's when I got it. Here’s what I wrote back then (with some minor editing):
Progressive lecturer and people’s historian Howard...
Albums Of The Week: Joe Grushecky | American Babylon 25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Long a fixture on the Pittsburgh music scene, originally fronting the Iron City Houserockers, Joe Grushecky is the son of a coal miner. His “day...
Now Hear This: George Thorogood and The Destroyers | Live in Boston, 1982: The...
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “George Thorogood and The Destroyers were hometown heroes when they played to a packed audience at Boston’s Bradford Ballroom (now the Royale Nightclub) on Nov....
Classic Album Review: Bruce Springsteen | The Rising
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):
A city devastated by...
Albums Of The Week: Swedish Magazines | I Wish Life Could Be: Best of...
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Existing originally in the first half of the first decade of this century, Melbourne’s Swedish Magazines were formed by Taswegian singer-songwriter guitarist Van Walker together...
Now Hear This: El Universo | Live Bootleg
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “El Universo is the personal project of Mexico City's Eder Ademar. Their eponymous debut album was released in September 2021. Ademar played every instrument on...
Chris Shiflett | Hard Lessons
WHO IS HE? The longtime Foo Fighters guitar slinger, former member of punk rock upstarts No Use For a Name and Me First and The Gimme Gimmes, and sometime...
Classic Album Review: DJ Shadow | The Private Press
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):
With his groundbreaking 1996...
