The Black Sand – ‘Into Forever’ (2018)
Black Sand has delivered perhaps their most contextual, evolving and softly haunting album to date, one filled with intoxicatingly delicious music that sits like jars of honey warming...
Jenell Kesler
Chatham Rise – “Meadowsweet” (2018) review
Chatham Rise - Meadowsweet (Picture in My Ear, 2018) https://pictureinmyearrecords.bandcamp.com/album/meadowsweet-2 Once again we find Chatham Rise breathlessly breezing into our subconscious with an ever present sense of longing...
The War on Drugs – ‘Rough Drafts (2014)
Released in November of 2014, 'Rough Drafts' epitomizes all that’s wrong with the those who ‘collect’ and don’t play the music. Consisting of two differing versions of previously...
Bennett Wilson Poole – “Bennett Wilson Poole” (2018) review
Bennett Wilson Poole - Bennett Wilson Poole (2018) Robin Bennett, Danny Wilson and Tony Poole make up a super group of sorts, reaching back into the early 1970’s...
Ultimate Painting – “Not Gonna Burn Myself Anymore” (2018) review
Ultimate Painting - Not Gonna Burn Myself Anymore (Bella Union, 2018) This is a sonically infectious drifting neo-psychedelic blues laden single, one laced with understated hooks, sidewalk swagger, and...
Kontiki Suite – “The Greatest Show on Earth” (2015) review
Kontiki Suite - The Greatest Show on Earth (2015) https://kontikisuite.bandcamp.com/album/the-greatest-show-on-earth The Greatest Show On Earth is Kontiki Suite’s second formal album, with some of the material being available in...
JAZZ CORNER Presents: The Dave Brubeck Quartet – “Time Out” (1959)
Without a doubt Time Out, with one of the most beautiful album covers of all time, is among the most subtle and signature releases by Dave Brubeck, where...
The Auras – “The Auras” (2012) review
The Auras - The Auras (2012) In consideration of the band’s catalog in general ... Many years ago, one of the first things that drove me to cassettes...
The Beatles – “The Beatles in Stereo” (2009) review
The Beatles - The Beatles in Stereo (Parlophone, 2009) To my way of thinking, one can’t say enough about the most influential band of my life, and for...
From The South / The Newsletters interview
I discovered Conor Hutchinson’s band From The South completely by accident, when a green vinyl copy of “Cool, Cool Memories” showed up at my door with an unsigned...