A 2018 Album More People Need to Hear: ‘Ajna’ by The Saw Range
With the end of the calendar year closing in, it’s the time when many music journalists will be writing up their best of 2019 lists. For this writer,...
Brian Greene
Jim Sullivan – ‘If the Evening Were Dawn’ (2019)
With the glut of reissue labels that have emerged over the past few decades, it can be a mess to try and sort through all of the supposed...
Blackwater Holylight: Sonic Sisters
There’s some choice dialogue in response to a rock band performance in Russ Meyer’s 1970 classic of outrageous cinema, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. In the film,...
Notes from the Velvet Underground: The Life of Lou Reed by Howard Sounes (2019)
I have to preface this review by saying that I haven’t read any other biographies of Lou Reed, so can’t comment on how Sounes’s book compares to others....
His Name is Alive – “Black Wings” (2018) review
His Name is Alive - Black Wings (HHBTM Records, 2018) Between the late 1980s and the present, Michigan’s His Name is Alive has unleashed a dizzying number of...
The Complete Monterey Pop Festival
The Complete Monterey Pop Festival (Criterion Collection Blu Ray/DVD 2017) Readers of this website likely don’t need to be told what the Monterey Pop Festival is. The three-day...
Festival: Folk Music at Newport 1963-1966 (2017) review
Festival: Folk Music at Newport 1963-1966 A Film by Murray Lerner Criterion Collection Blu Ray/DVD 2017 Part of what makes D.A. Pennebaker’s Don’t Look Back – his...
Honeybeat: Groovy 60s Girl-Pop
Honeybeat: Groovy 60s Girl-Pop Compiled by Sheila Burgel (Real Gone Music 2017) If you’re a fan of The Supremes, The Shanrgi-Las, The Ronettes, etc. there’s nothing wrong with...
The B-52’s – Live! 8.24.1979 (2016) review
The B-52’s - Live! 8.24.1979 (Real Gone Music, 2016) This is a nine-song live set The B-52’s performed as the opening act playing in front of Talking Heads...
Remembering Bernie Worrell (1944-2016)
So many influential musicians have died this year. It seems like every other week there’s sad news of another cherished artist’s passing. One such death that affected me...