Year: 2003

These days it’s pretty hard to find a band declaring themselves as “mod” and fulfilling the entire genre defining aspects. Mostly, it’s more about the image and the attitude. Not that they followed the concept […]

Also coming into their own with their third album are these boys from New Zealand. While not a staggering work of genius, it is a focused (only one number tops four minutes), finely crafted, highly […]

You know there is only one place a band with this name could be from, New Jersey, though these recordings were done out in Albuquerque and Los Angeles during the Summer of ’66 on break […]

Moving on from all the ’60s Ballroom and Millennium affiliated material that Sundazed and Rev-ola have been dishing out, this record was originally released in 1973 by Elektra. The work primarily of Boettcher (who knows […]

Kimberley Rew’s long awaited second solo album resumes pretty much everything he has done with the Soft Boys or Katrina & The Waves, be it the post-folk-rock Byrdsy jangle of the opening Life Itself, or […]

For the first time the former Cowboy and Spin Girl work with an outside producer, Adam Schmitt. Again they’ve recruited a new drummer, here the rock steady Kirk Jamieson. And whether it’s because of Schmitt […]

I should say that I’ve never been convinced of the genius of Matthew Sweet. I’ve found his records patchy, partly because a lot of his songs go on too long (you know, what might have […]

Long one of the top hard to find records, the brothers McDonald’s better halves have reissued this on their label. You might not want to scrap your original copy, if you have one. Originally produced […]