The Reverend Horton Heat Spend A Night In The Box Real Gone Music It is really hard to believe that Spend A Night In The Box by The Reverend Horton Heat is making its debut on vinyl in 2023. Here is a well-crafted album taking its lead from the [...]
The Donnas Early Singles 1995-1999 Real Gone Music The Donnas burst onto the punk scene like a force of nature in the late 1990s. Far from being an overnight success, this quartet (vocalist Brett Anderson, guitarist Allison Robertson, bassist [...]
Laura Reznek Leap Year Birthday Cake Records These days, the interpretation of what consists of an EP has become quite an elastic thing. It can run from a single (albeit long) song to something that lasts as a full-fledged album for some other [...]
Maximillian Maximillian RidingEasy Records In 1969, Maximillian, a short-lived New York City-based band made up of African American and Latino musicians, released its self-titled album. Consisting of singer Buzzy Bowzer (aka Maximillian), lead [...]
Mary Hopkin & Jessica Lee Morgan Two Hearts Mary Hopkin Music Jessica Lee Morgan comes from a very talented family. Her father is famed producer and musician Tony Visconti and her mother is Welsh singer Mary Hopkin. She has performed with [...]
Dex Wolfe Vestiges Independent Back in 2020, we had this to say about Dex Wolfe’s music: “Brief musical notes conjuring all the better sides of David Byrne, Sparklehorse, and Sufjan Stevens work some real polymath magic.” Ok, [...]
Teenage Bottlerocket So Dumb/So Stoked Pirates Press Records Teenage Bottlerocket’s new EP, So Dumb, isn’t exactly my personal favorite. The tracks lack a bit of structural complexity, and the overall delivery could be described as [...]
Great Lake Swimmers Uncertain Country Fontana North/Cadence Music Years ago, a friend described the experience of her toddler’s first show. It was Great Lake Swimmers, a band I hadn’t heard of until then. Yet the image of the [...]
