Shawn Benfield The Shorter It Gets, The Harder It Hits... Shotgunn Records There must be something in the drinking water in The Appalachians, as here we have yet another artist from that region making his debut with the EP The Shorter It [...]
George Thorogood And The Destroyers Live In Boston, 1982: The Complete Concert Craft Recordings George Thorogood has been making music since the early 1970s, with his roots firmly grounded in the Delta Blues. However, when he formed The Delaware [...]
Paul McCartney McCartney III MPL/Capitol Paul McCartney has always used music to get through difficult times. In 1970, when the Beatles split, he came out with the classic McCartney in 1980. As Wings were falling apart, McCartney gave us [...]
The Kinks Lola Versus Powerman And The Moneygoround, Part One: 50th Anniversary Edition Box-Set BMG Originally released in the winter of 1970, Lola Versus Powerman And The Moneygoround gave The Kinks their biggest hit single in five years, [...]
Splinter Never Went Back Gonzo Multimedia British duo Splinter’s first three albums were released on George Harrison’s Dark Horse Records label between 1974 and 1977. Although they were never able to match the success of their debut, they [...]
Mary Hopkin A Christmas Chorale Mary Hopkin Music Mary Hopkin made a welcome and surprising return to the music world in 2020 with Another Road. Now, she is back with A Christmas Chorale. Here, Hopkin works with her two children, Morgan [...]
Edward McCormack Rest In Place Independent Rest In Place is McCormack’s follow-up to Astral/Aphotic, released in June 2020. With McCormack quantity does not affect quality, quite the reverse actually. He presents a collection of 15 moving [...]
DAVID BEDFORD – THE COUNTRY OF LIVERPOOL: NASHVILLE OF THE NORTH DAVID BEDFORD PUBLICATIONS BOOK REVIEW BY AARON BADGLEY In 1965, The Beatles recorded “Act Naturally”, with Ringo Starr on lead vocals, for the Help! album. The song was even [...]
JUST A MOMENT. I LIKE IT HERE. A CONVERSATION WITH TREVOR BELD JIMENEZ Trevor Beld Jimenez is not a familiar name…yet. However, he has just released his debut album, I Like It Here. Although I Like It Here is his debut as a solo artist, [...]
Terry Draper Lost Magentalane Music This seemed to come out of the blue, a second album from Terry Draper in 2020. Lost follows on the heels of Sunset On Mars, released by the former drummer and songwriter of Klaatu earlier in 2020. It seemed [...]
Brian Eno Film Music: 1976-2020 Universal Music This compilation has been long awaited by Eno fans. Film Music: 1976 – 2020 is a fairly comprehensive package of Brian Eno’s soundtrack work for the past four decades. For fans, such as I, [...]
Church Of Trees Progression Independent It is hard to believe that Church Of Trees is only four years old, given the quantity (and high quality) of music that has been produced under that banner. Church Of Trees is more of a project than a band. [...]
IT’S ABOUT THE MUSIC – EVERYTHING ELSE IS SECONDARY A CONVERSATION WITH KENNETH WOMACK – AUTHOR OF JOHN LENNON, 1980: THE LAST DAYS IN THE LIFE October 9, 2020 would have been John Lennon’s 80th birthday. To celebrate this [...]
Joey Molland Be True To Yourself Omnivore Recordings Joey Molland is the sole surviving member of Badfinger, and he tends to tour as Joey Molland’s Badfinger. Fair enough, given his incredible solo albums never took off and achieved the success [...]
…AND THE COUNTRY STIRRED A CONVERSATION WITH ALEX SOUTHEY “I am always a little wary of making something super catchy. When I came up with this song, I thought, I don’t know if I want to include this. I didn’t think it suited the weirdness [...]
John Lennon Gimme Some Truth. The Ultimate Mixes Apple/Universal Music Today, October 9, 2020, John Lennon would have turned 80, and perhaps the best way to celebrate his birthday is to release a retrospective of his music. Gimme Some Truth. The [...]
Eric C. Powell and Andrea Powell Fly Away Independent Fly Away is Eric C. Powell and Andrea Powell’s fifth album and their second for 2020 (Mute was released earlier this year). The sheer quantity of music would be cause for concern, in that, [...]
SATURDAY NIGHT ROCK AND ROLL PARTY A CONVERSATION WITH ICONIC RADIO PERSONALITY COUSIN BRUCIE (BRUCE MORROW) Cousin Brucie is a living legend who continues to shake things up and pave his own way in the world of radio. Bruce Morrow, known as [...]
ALL HAIL TO THE DUSTMAN A CONVERSATION WITH STEPHEN EVENS “He’s me. I am him. An exaggeration perhaps or mostly the part of me that is the show off. I picked the name because I thought it was clever. Even Stephens, Stephen EvEns, the other name [...]
Sufjan Stevens The Ascension Asthmatic Kitty It is hard to believe, but it has been five years since Sufjan Stevens released a ‘conventional’ studio album. That doesn’t mean he has not been busy, because he has. The Ascension is a return to [...]
A GENESIS IN MY BED A CONVERSATION WITH STEVE HACKETT From 1970 until 1977, Steve Hackett provided some of the most melodic and inventive guitar work in rock as a member of Genesis. You can hear his artistry on such classic albums as Foxtrot, [...]
Vision Eternel For Farewell Of Nostalgia Somewhere Cold Records For Farewell Of Nostalgia is the latest release by Montréal’s Vision Eternel. A concept EP about, as he says, the emotional ”devastation of falling in love too quickly” and the [...]
Blue Öyster Cult The Symbol Remains Frontiers Music Blue Öyster Cult is back–and in a big way! The Symbol Remains is their first studio album since 2001’s Curse Of The Hidden Mirror. Since then, the band have toured consistently, and have [...]
Soundwalk Collective With Patti Smith Peradam Bella Union Peradam is the fourth release from Soundwalk Collective with Patti Smith. In 2019, this collaboration explored the works of poets Antonin Artaud on The Peyote Dance, and Arthur Rimbaud [...]
