Steve Gunn – ‘Way Out Weather’ (2014)
The music of Steve Gunn’s newest release 'Way Out Weather', is ebbing from my speakers like some hypnotic high tide, inching across my floor, enveloping the space in...
Jenell Kesler
Papercuts – ‘You Can Have What You Want’ (2009)
Let’s face it, the Papercuts are/is Jason Quever, an artist who hands out lyrics that are occasionally decipherable, nearly always dealing with an internal depression of self-worth and...
Kurt Vile – ‘God Is Saying This to You…’ (2009)
If anything, Kurt Vile’s 'God Is Saying This To You …' will instantly spark memories of the godfather of low-fi, John Fahey, and though more than half of...
Bob Dylan and The Band – The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes – Raw (2014) review
Bob Dylan and The Band - The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes - Raw (Legacy, 2014) I've been toying with the Basement Tapes since I first...
Pink Floyd – The Endless River (2014) review
Pink Floyd "The Endless River" (Parlophone, 2014) Pink Floyd never made it to the 50 year mark, but they got close, and “close” is more than I can...
Richard Hawley – Standing at the Sky’s Edge (2012) review
Richard Hawley "Standing at the Sky's Edge" (Parlophone, 2012) Without dropping his romantic persona, Hawley takes a step both sideways and back, harking visions of his neo-psychedelic, neo-hippy...
The Lemon Drops – Sunshower Flower Power (2009) review
The Lemon Drops "Sunshower Flower Power" (Cicadelic Records, 2009) This little gem winged onto my stereo like a half forgotten dream, turning the calendar pages backwards to 1967...
The Sand Pebbles – Dark Magic (2011) review
The Sand Pebbles "Dark Magic" (2011) In another time and another place, say the latter half of the 1960’s, fueled by Sandoz Blue, and other substances heretofore lost...
Soft Speaker – ‘Øvrevoll Racecourse’ (2014)
So there I was in the middle of the wasteland, barreling down the empty highway headed west on Inner State 60, the sun’s just slipped behind the mountains,...
The Orange Drop – Drone Pop (2014) reviews
The Orange Drop "Drone Pop" (2014) Shimmering in an indigo blue sky, between the heavy velvet drapes of my bedroom window, drapes that are gently riding on a...