This is a portrait in negative. None of the Replacements are interviewed or make an appearance (until the “where are they now” ending and into the credits, where still pictures of the original band members […]
Pastiche: “A literary, musical, or artistic piece consisting wholly or chiefly of motifs or techniques borrowed from one or more sources.” There’s no getting past it, the Explorers Club are still in that phase. It’s […]
Here is what I’ve learned: The Golden Bears are a duo, with a fair amount of help, out of Portland, Oregon: Julianna Bright (vocals and drums) and Seth Lorinczi (a whole bunch the other stuff). […]
From Minneapolis via Madison, Wisconsin comes another band to disrupt my ignorance. This is their fourth album, not a stitch of the previous three had I heard before this, and still haven’t. Nor any of […]
The Wrong Words – The Wrong Words [Trouble In Mind/2011] As always I’m a bit out of the loop, though being 3000 miles away might be considered a mitigating factor, even in this “wired” aged. […]
The Ugly Beats – Motor! [Get Hip/2010] This Austin, Texas’ combo is back for a third go-round. They’ve gone whole hog this time with the Univox-sounding organ (think “Telstar”). The variegation of ‘60s pop-rock sub-genres […]
Your Really Got Me: The Story of the Kinks [ABC/Voiceprint] Unfortunately this is another poorly cobbled together package. Contrary to the PR blurb “This DVD contains some of the Kinks finest moments and is full […]
Bobby Emmett – Learning Love [D.I.Y/2010] Bobby Emmett spent a few years in the earlier part of this decade playing his Hammond organ, and for a while, bass, via a Fender Rhodes piano bass, or […]
The Sights – Most Of What Follows Is True [Alive/2010] It’s been five years – that’s over a generation in rock and roll years — and now Eddie Baranek is back with a new batch […]
Gavin Guss – Mercury Mine [Obsolete Media/2010] It’s been a baker’s dozen of years since Tube Top’s one and only album, Three Minute Hercules, came out. While one of the two singer-songwriters of that band, […]
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