One In The Chamber Live From The Rockpile Independent One In The Chamber is anything but conventional. Their debut EP was a collection of demos (The Boston Session – Bootleg Demos) and their debut mini-album is a live set from two [...]
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds Lovely Creatures – The Best Of Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds (1984-2014) Mute Records Compilations are a funny things. When they are done well, they are like a new album in the artist’s catalog. McCartney’s [...]
Pond The Weather Marathon Artists This is Pond, from Australia, led by Nick Allbrook. Not the band from the ‘90’s who recorded for Sub Pop, this is a totally different band. Joining Nick is Jay Watson, Joe Ryan and Jamie Terry. Each member [...]
Various Artists Cover Stories: Brandi Carlile Celebrates 10 Years of the Story (An Album to Benefit War Child) Columbia Records In 2007, Folk Artist Brandi Carlile released an album to initially little fanfare called The Story. But then through [...]
Mothlight Laika Independent This is the second album from this Southern California trio. This album shows a band that continues to mature and a band that knows how to achieve the sound in their collective heads. Laika is a brilliant, lush, [...]
Sufjan Stevens Carrie & Lowell Live Asthmatic Kitty Records I was very fortunate to have seen two concerts of the Carrie & Lowell Tour by Sufjan Stevens. I did not go into the concerts as a fan, in fact I knew precious little of his [...]
Procol Harum Novum Eagle Rock This is Procol Harum’s first studio album since 2003 The Well’s On Fire, and their 12th studio album to date. Since their debut album in 1967 (the brilliant album Procol Harum) the band has been through many [...]
BNQT Volume 1 Last Gang A supergroup of sorts, featuring five vocalists from some very respected and much loved bands. BNQT (pronounced ‘banquet’) features Ben Bridwell of Band of Horses, Alex Kapranos of Franz Ferdinand, Fran Healy of Travis, [...]
Old Crow Medicine Show 50 Years Of Blonde On Blonde Sony Music I love Old Crow Medicine Show, love them. They have put out some of the finest country/roots album over the past decade. And I love Bob Dylan, and like most people, recognize [...]
14 STEPS TO HARLEM A CONVERSATION WITH GARLAND JEFFREYS Garland Jeffreys is a legend. That is a fact. I don’t know that he would agree with me, but let it be said, Mr. Garland Jeffreys is a legend. His first solo album which was self-titled, [...]
THE RETURN OF ANDY McMASTER AN INTERVIEW WITH ANDY McMASTER (THE MOTORS) In March 1980, The Motors released a brilliant album, Tenement Steps. What fans didn’t know was by the time the album was released the band had disbanded. “We split before [...]
Animal Collective Meeting Of The Waters EP Domino Records Animal Collective have been around for over 15 years, and the core members of this band are Avey Tare (David Portner); Panda Bear (Noah Lennox); Deakin’ (Josh Dibb); and Geologist (Brian [...]
David Bowie Cracked Actor (Live In Los Angeles ’74) Parlophone On April 22, 2017, I was up very early to get in line at Dead Dog Records to try and get the new limited edition releases for Record Store Day. Among my purchases, I got my [...]
Ray Davies Americana Sony Music For Kinks fans, 2017 is shaping up to being a pretty good year. First Dave Davies and Russ Davies (his son) released the great album, Open Road on March 31, 2017 and Ray Davies has now released his first album of [...]
Why? w/ O (Formerly Eskimeaux) @ Lee’s Palace, Toronto April 17, 2017 The crowd streamed in in a steady pace, and for an Easter Monday night in Toronto, the club filled up pretty quickly. O (formerly known as Eskimeaux) opened the show [...]
Father John Misty Pure Comedy Sub Pop What can be said about Father John Misty (a.k.a. Josh Tillman) that has not already been said? One thing comes to my mind. During the last two years since the release of his last album, 2015’s I Love You, [...]
THE CASSETTE PLAYED POP TONES AN INTERVIEW WITH DANIEL ASH & KEVIN HASKINS OF POPTONE “Well, this is a first, isn’t it Kevin?” Daniel Ash asks his fellow Poptone member. “The first time we have been interviewed while driving cars in L.A., [...]
EXACTLY? …EXACTLY! A CONVERSATION WITH RICHARD FAIRBRASS OF RIGHT SAID FRED The name, Right Said Fred, comes from a 1962 top ten UK hit by Bernard Cribbins. The song, “Right, Said Fred” was produced by George Martin, who would go on, to [...]
The Strawbs Live In Gettysburg – Rites Of Spring Festival 2016 Witchwood Music The Strawbs have been around a long time, and there have been many member changes, with original member Dave Cousins as the longest standing member. He has [...]
Dave Davies & Russ Davies Open Road Sony Music The Kinks called it a day in 1994, following the release of their much overlooked, but brilliant, album To The Bone. Who would have predicted that Dave Davies, co-founder and the revolutionary [...]
Various Artists Resistance Radio: The Man In The High Castle Album Sony Music A compilation album put together by Danger Mouse and Sam Cohen as an imagined soundtrack from the Amazon series The Man In The High Castle. The title, Resistance [...]
Timber Timbre Sincerely, Future Pollution Arts & Crafts Timber Timbre have been around since 2005, when their debut album, Cedar Shakes was released. A dark, frightening, brooding album, and from there, they have continued on to this, their [...]
The Flatliners Inviting Light Dine Alone Records The Flatliners have been together for over 15 years, and their four man line-up has not changed in all those years. Inviting Light is album number five. Hailing from Brampton and Richmond Hill [...]
Right Said Fred Exactly! Universal Music Album number nine for Brothers Fairbrass (Richard and Fred), better known as Right Said Fred. And their first album since 2011’s Stop The World, which many assumed would be their last. Thankfully it was [...]
