PAT TRAVERS HIGHWAY 61 REVISITED – LIVE IN HOUSTON, TX – MARCH 20, 2004 CLEOPATRA RECORDS Pat Travers continues to mine his live archive for never-before-released concerts for fans to enjoy. And it’s great that he does it too. This [...]
CATE KENNAN SHADOWS KRANKY Working in that not so defined musical ground between ethereal and dream pop can be a tricky affair, as it is currently populated by quite a few artists, and any relative newcomer is bound to be compared to somebody [...]
KNITTING SOUVENIR MINT RECORDS Montreal’s knitting does love the sound of their guitars (quite evident on their debut Some Kind of Heaven from 2024), but simply labelling them as a slacker band, particularly listening to Souvenir, their [...]
PROUN MAYBE LUCK GOOD ENGLISH RECORDS We can keep guessing (or not) at what Austin, TX trio proun had in mind when they named its debut album Maybe Luck, but it is hard to hear that the luck is involved in its music, as it can go from a whisper [...]
MISSOULA DEATH DOULA ORG MUSIC Missoula is an instrumental superstar project from drummer Brooks Wackerman (Avenged Sevenfold, Bad Religion) and guitarist John Konesky (Tenacious D). This is not surf or ambient or meditative instrumental music. [...]
VARIOUS ARTISTS DIGGING YOUR SCENE – NEW POP & ALL THAT JAZZ 1982-1987 CHERRY RED RECORDS Hot on the heels of 2024’s Heaven Sent: The Rise Of New Pop 1979-1983, Cherry Red offers a rather lengthy but never boring four-CD set, Digging Your [...]
VARIOUS ARTISTS REMIX/REMODEL – THE VINCE CLARKE REMIXES CHERRY RED RECORDS Vince Clarke is well known as a solo artist, musician, and one-time member of Depeche Mode, Yazoo, and The Assembly, and as a current member of Doublespeak and Erasure. [...]
MINYO CRUSADERS FROM JAPAN WITH LOVE BLUE NOTE RECORDS Tokyo’s folk-fusion collective Minyo Crusaders have released their fifth record, From Japan With Love, which is rooted in traditional Japanese folk music, fusing Latin, African, and [...]
