The Last Assembly
The Fevers – Don’t Tell Me It’s Wrong
SinglesGoingSteady#02: The Fevers – Don’t Tell Me It’s Wrong [Get Hip Recordings, 2005] The Fevers churned out some really good power pop stuff between 1998 and 2006; two albums, two singles and one EP. Their […]
Randells – Seven Inch
SinglesGoingSteady #01: Randells – Seven Inch [Jarama 45RPM Recs.,2022] What could be better than starting this series of highly recommended – but perhaps not so well-known – songs with one that celebrates the 7″ format […]
Bo-Dogs – Bad Bad Dog! [Low Impact Records; 2014]
My music heart has a special place for albums where all the songs are under three minutes. The concept becomes more packed that way, and you thus avoid a lot of wasted time. No detours, […]
Peter’s Twenty Favorite Albums 2023
As tradition calls for, I’m posting my twenty personal favorites among newly recorded albums released in 2023. Each album comes with one or two lines of commentary and a featured track as a taster. Most […]
Eddie and the Hotrods’ pre- and post-Teenage Depression Horseplay – what they tell us
In his most recent book Lightning Striking (review here), Lenny Kaye lists ten pivotal moments in the history of Rock and Roll. One of the transformative occasions mentioned is the emergence of punk rock that […]
Peter’s Twenty Favorite Albums 2022
Here I share my twenty personal favorites among newly recorded albums released in 2022 with some short comments to go along each one of them. Usual suspects mixed with newcomers in one big unholy mess. […]
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Articles (English)
The Fevers – Don’t Tell Me It’s Wrong
SinglesGoingSteady#02: The Fevers – Don’t Tell Me It’s Wrong [Get Hip Recordings, 2005] The Fevers churned out some really good power pop stuff between 1998 and 2006; two albums, two singles and one EP. Their […]
Randells – Seven Inch
SinglesGoingSteady #01: Randells – Seven Inch [Jarama 45RPM Recs.,2022] What could be better than starting this series of highly recommended – but perhaps not so well-known – songs with one that celebrates the 7″ format […]
Bo-Dogs – Bad Bad Dog! [Low Impact Records; 2014]
My music heart has a special place for albums where all the songs are under three minutes. The concept becomes more packed that way, and you thus avoid a lot of wasted time. No detours, […]
Peter’s Twenty Favorite Albums 2023
As tradition calls for, I’m posting my twenty personal favorites among newly recorded albums released in 2023. Each album comes with one or two lines of commentary and a featured track as a taster. Most […]
Eddie and the Hotrods’ pre- and post-Teenage Depression Horseplay – what they tell us
In his most recent book Lightning Striking (review here), Lenny Kaye lists ten pivotal moments in the history of Rock and Roll. One of the transformative occasions mentioned is the emergence of punk rock that […]
Peter’s Twenty Favorite Albums 2022
Here I share my twenty personal favorites among newly recorded albums released in 2022 with some short comments to go along each one of them. Usual suspects mixed with newcomers in one big unholy mess. […]
Set Me Free – New and upcoming releases
Pat Todd & The Rankoutsiders – Tells Us All A Story/Prison Of Love (single)
Even though the album … There’s Pretty Things in Palookaville … from last year, by Pat Todd & The Rankoutsiders, was fully packed, there are even more recordings in the pipeline waiting for release. Pat […]
Jeremy Scott – Bear Grease (album)
Jeremy Scott is best known from his work with Harlan T. Bobo and the Memphis-based bands The Toy Trucks and, maybe foremost, Reigning Sound – currently in the spotlight with the album A Little More […]
Alan Vega – After Dark (album)
This second unearthing in 2021 from the late Alan Vega (1938–2016) archive, the posthumous After Dark (In The Red Recordings), is very reminiscent of Alan Vegas’ two-day improvisation with Alex Chilton, which materialized as Cubist […]
Reigning Sound – A Little More Time with Reigning Sound (album)
As Jeremy Scott, the bassist of Reigning Sound, commented a while ago on PopDiggers’ announcement of Merge Records’ re-issue of Abdication…For Your Love – Plus, Reigning Sound had an album underway – seven years after […]
He’s Bad! 11 Bands Decimate The Beats of Bo Diddley (6×7” box, various artists)
Slovenly Recordings’/Black Gladiator‘s limited edition box set contains six 7” with Bo Diddley-related material – all are covers of Elias McDaniel’s or his co-conspirators originals. Some of them are well known while others are rare. […]
Bad Nerves – Bad Nerves (album, 2020)
Bad Nerves is an East London quintet with three singles in the baggage before this self-titled debut album was released in late 2020. It’s full throttle from start to finish with twelve songs in less […]