Sufjan Stevens/Timo Andres The Decalogue Asthmatic Kitty On the surface, this may seem to be an out-of-character release for Sufjan Stevens. Classical music written for a ballet? it is not. The Decalogue is not his first venture into ballets, [...]
Mary Fahl Winter Songs And Carols Rimar Records Winter Songs And Carols is Mary Fahl’s fourth studio album since leaving October Project in 1996, and on the surface looks and sounds like a Christmas album, but it is more, much more. As well as [...]
Small Planets Small Planets Independent Small Planets is a new band hailing from Los Angeles, and their self-titled album is one hell of a debut. Small Planets is a beautiful album which reminds me of how albums used to be made. There is a [...]
Patrick Watson Wave Secret City Records Wave is Patrick Watson’s eighth studio album. Since 2001’s debut (Waterproof9) Watson has been using the studio to paint audio landscapes. Wave is no exception. This is an album of textures, silence, and [...]
David J Missive To An Angel From The Halls Of Infamy And Allure Glass Modern Records David J is a very busy musician and over the years this multi-talented bassist has played with several bands, including Bauhaus, Love and Rockets, and Jazz [...]
THE DARKEST PART OF THE NIGHT, THE SUN ALWAYS RISES A CONVERSATION WITH BRENT RADEMAKER OF GOSPELBEACH GospelbeacH has been around since 2014, when Brent Rademaker rounded up some like-minded friends to produce music that reflected the times, [...]
KENNETH WOMACK – SOLID STATE: THE STORY OF ABBEY ROAD AND THE END OF THE BEATLES CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS BOOK REVIEW BY AARON BADGLEY Having written several books on The Beatles as well as a two-volume set about George Martin, Kenneth [...]
LET’S GET FRIENDSHIP RIGHT A CONVERSATION WITH ANDY MAIZE OF THE SKYDIGGERS “We are putting this out because we are proud of it and we achieved what we wanted to achieve in the making of the recording,” says Andy Maize about the new Skydiggers [...]
Skydiggers Let’s Get Friendship Right Independent Let’s Get Friendship Right , the 15th album by The Skydiggers, is a magnificent album that deals with loss and love. Although dealing with deep and heavy subjects, the end result is an [...]
Medicine Scarred For Life Drawing Room Records Scarred For Life is an album of covers of 1970’s songs by American noise pop band, Medicine . One look at the front sleeve and the K-Tel-like logo gives you an idea of the origins of the album. No [...]
GospelbeacH Let It Burn Alive Naturalsound Let It Burn, GospelbeacH’s highly-anticipated third album, marks the return of original member Neal Casal. Tragically, on August 26, 2019, Casal tragically left us. Besides the world losing a remarkably [...]
WIVES So Removed City Slang Records So Removed is the first album for WIVES, the four-piece band based in Queens, New York, and it is an impressive debut. Here, they are trying to be gritty and to evoke the spirit of New York City in the 1980s, [...]
John Lodge B Yond – The Very Best Of BMG I have to say, this is an odd one. John Lodge joined The Moody Blues in 1966 and has remained a member since. During the years, he has released two studio and one live album. He also released a few [...]
Midge Ure Soundtrack 1978-2019 Chrysalis Records Soundtrack 1978-2019 is not the first compilation to attempt to cover Midge Ure’s incredible career. But what it does do, besides having the hit singles, is provide an insight into his career via [...]
Herb Alpert Over The Rainbow Herb Alpert Presents With his 41st studio recording, Herb Alpert returns to what he does best and with apparent ease: interpreting others’ songs and making them his own. The 84-year-old musician has never stood [...]
Robbie Robertson Sinematic Macrobiotic/Universal Robbie Robertson returns with his first album since 2011’s brilliant How To Be Clairvoyant. That is a tough album to top, but he has managed to do so with his sixth solo album, Sinematic. In the [...]
Noctorum The Afterdeath Schoolkids Records Noctorum consists of the duo Marty Willson-Piper (The Church, All About Eve, The Saints) and producer Dare Mason. In 2019, they released their fourth album, The Afterlife. To fund the album the band [...]
Gary Daly Gone From Here Remixed Independent In the 1980’s, many ‘new wave’ bands released both 45’s and 12-inch singles featuring remixes of the same song. Among those who did were China Crisis, and some of their remixes are some of the best of [...]
JOHN & YOKO – ABOVE US ONLY SKY NETFLIX SEPTEMBER 13, 2019 When John Lennon and Yoko Ono set out to record the Imagine and Fly albums, in 1971, they made a decision to document the entire proceedings, from beginning to end. This [...]
LIVING IN AN INFERNO, LIVING IN AN OVEN A CONVERSATION WITH ROBERT FORSTER In 1976, while attending the University of Queensland, Robert Forster meets Grant McLennan in a drama class. Within two years they have formed a band, The Go-Betweens, [...]
COME ON, LEAVE YOUR WORLD BEHIND A CONVERSATION WITH MIKE McCARTNEY (MIKE McGEAR) Peter Michael McCartney was born on January 7, 1944. He was the second of two sons born to Jim and Mary McCartney. As with his older brother, he would go by his [...]
SUGAR, SUGAR: A FINE EXAMPLE OF 1960’S POP A CONVERSATION WITH SONGWRITER ANDY KIM The 1960’s came to a crashing end with all the events of 1969. The Moon Landing, the Stonewall Riots, Richard Nixon’s presidency, the Vietnam War, Woodstock, and [...]
EMBRACING THE LIGHT A CONVERSATION WITH DANIEL DARROW OF THE PULL OF AUTUMN The Pull Of Autumn is a collective of artists, pulled together by Daniel Darrow and Luke ‘Skyscraper’ James. In 2018, they released their self-titled debut album, an [...]
Linda McCartney Wide Prairie (Reissue) MPL/Universal Music Wide Prairie, Linda McCartney’s only solo album, was originally released in October 1998, roughly five months after her passing. It was an album that she had been working on for many [...]
