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 […]
British post-war migration was foremost concentrated to other parts of the Commonwealth. This export of human capital helped to disseminate the new and exciting music vibes that emanated from London – the epicenter of the […]
Royal Pendletons’ 7” A-side (I’m a) Sore Loser [Sympathy for the Record Industry; 1998] – backed with the intriguing instrumental Boo’s Bash – is in this case a can opener for the 30 song soundtrack […]
Never Get Away is one of the eleven well-kept together tracks on The Waldos’ only album Rent Party [Sympathy for the Record Industry, 1994; Jungle, 2013, enhanced CD] which sounds just like The Heartbreakers of […]
Bubbling under my 20 list – and also stressed by the great Raised on Records’ best of 2017 blog – is one of the finest recent Swedish albums. One-man garage band Råttanson’s Full-Scale Shakeability really […]
With Eastside Bulldog (2016) the, in normal cases, well balanced and folkish oriented Todd Snider comes out, this time without hiding behind his wilder alter ego Elmo Buzz, whose name he used on the Spinal […]
Lemonhead Evan Dando has with Varshons [2009] compiled a cover album with an exceptional spread where, for example, Waiting Around To Die by Townes Van Zandt is followed by the Texan garage band Randy Alvey […]
After an eight year hiatus Desperate Rock’n’Roll is back at last with Volume 22. Eclectic and eccentric as always. Have a listen to one of the 16 obscure tracks, Emy Jackson’s Crying In A Storm […]
The magnificent gig by Chuck Prophet and The Mission Express recently in Malmö, Sweden, reminded me of the seldom heard B-side of his RSD2012 single contemporary with his great album Temple Beautiful.
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