A personal sample of the recently recorded finest albums that was released in 2018. Selected with the same procedure as previous screenings of 2017, 2016 and 2015. 01. Harlan T Bobo – A History of […]
Lindsey Buckingham got kicked out of Fleetwood Mac (again), The Monkees made their first-ever Christmas album (!), and I am still waiting for that big Turtles Battle of the Bands Commemorative Special Anniversary Collectors Edition. […]
Whilst 2018 is about to go into history for good, now is a time as good as any for an announcement regarding compilations released this year. I would like to direct special spotlight on three […]
Welcome to the second lesson in the Garage Rock School series! During this lesson we will spend some time digging even deeper into our beloved topic. We will extrapolate the, hopefully useful, conclusions and experiences […]
If rough edged road movies with cameo appearances of excellent musicians is your cup of tea, this film seems tailor made for you. Wayne County Ramblin’ is a looong labor of love by Dan(iel) Rose […]
Peter Blecha gives in his book Sonic Boom – The History of Northwest Rock [2009] an unusually well-founded and detailed account of the formation of the Pacific Northwest’s music scene in the 50s and its […]
Robert Gordon has built an impressive CV over the past decades that has a wide, but interconnected, spectrum of activities – from production of films and music videos to articles and books. Most of his […]
Stuck with the Memphis Book Again Blues, I guess (see previous reviews of Peter Guralnick’s Sam Phillips – The Man who invented Rock’n’Roll and Robert Gordon’s Memphis Rent Party – The Blues, Rock & Soul […]
Whenever a new Elvis-book shows up (they frequently still do), I can’t help thinking of these lines in Broken Whiskey Glass by Jason & the Scorchers’s Jason Ringenberg: You went to Memphis to find yourself […]
Will Birch is an English music writer and record producer. He has also worked hands on with music as songwriter and drummer (Kursaal Flyers: 1973–1977, 1985, 1988 and in present century; The Records: 1978–1982). In […]
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