Once again, I lived the year with ears wide open, forever scouting far under the socio-musical radar for sounds that may just have passed you by over the past twelve months and counting. So here […]
Once again a sense of tension and mild unease has been created around guitarist / vocalist Mike Murphy’s dramatic, slightly askew pop concoctions, and (collectively) the group’s oddly-alluring, decidedly left-of-centre melodies. This is perhaps not […]
Lindsey Buckingham, multitude of custom guitars in hands, cannily fleeted from the humongous Mac only to craft one of the greatest folk albums in many an era, whilst that once-and-former misdiagnosed Voice of Someone’s Generation […]
Assuming everyone can manage to pry Big Star’s In Space outta their ears for a moment or two, may I then suggest (in strictly alphabetical order, of course)… COL. KNOWLEDGE & THE LICKITY-SPLITS Fall In […]
If we could all just manage to put Bob Dylan’s Chronicles, Volume One down long enough to load up our audio device of preference with an extra couple’a hundred tunes, here are just a few […]
These are some young ‘uns out of San Francisco, fronted by three singer-songwriters – Ryan Wong, Pat Thomas (not to be confused with Absolute Grey’s Pat Thomas, who I think is still residing in the […]
In that tipsy-turvy year when Triumph the Insult Comic Dog’s Come Poop With Me outsold labelmate REM’s latest Best Of by a margin of twenty-to-one in most key retail markets, and the RIAA’s legal staff […]
(Disclosure) The Surfin’ Lungs and me go back some 25 years. In all that time their focus has remained as tight as an excimer laser on, you can surmise from their name, what’s known colloquially […]
As yet another twelve months bite dust, tis time again to whisk ears back upon what the year past had to offer within the “Rock,” “Pop,” “Pop-Rock” and (my personal favorite pigeonhole) “Otherwise” competitions. Now […]
45 THINGS I BET YOU NEVER KNEW ABOUT THE COWSILLS even after watching Louise Palanker’s absolutely riveting Family Band documentary: • Susan Claire Cowsill is the youngest human being ever to score a genuine Billboard […]
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