Albums

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 […]

These guys, five of ’em, from Sacramento (regardless of the English accents) have the rough-hewn edges and melody sense of the Television Personalities and Swell Maps with a thick veneer of Bolanesque Glam (that bit […]

Just as the album title suggests, this is a minor chord heaven, delivered by the master of the genre himself, Mr. Jens Lindberg. The thing is, that the band now sounds twice better than before, […]

Coincidentally, like Sloan, the Waxwings start off the first number, of this their sophomore release, with a clanging noise (in this case a heavily distorted guitar chord). And while not to the level above, there […]

Last issue I put my 2¢ in on the Great Rock Revival. Well it continues, though as a commercial mother lode my guess is it’s almost played out. Which is a shame for this subset, […]

Some days I think Perth is an adjective — or is that a verb — not just a city. Other days I wonder what is in the water out on that edge of the Indian […]