My Bloody Valentine – m b v (2013) review
It’s been 22 years, that’s more than a generation since My Bloody Valentine dropped their last release [Loveless] on us, and I tell you true, over the years,...
Reviews
Exploring, interviewing and reviewing “The Mendition of the Quay” and their debut album
In modern age of rock `n roll, there are two types of uprising bands: those who wait for the chance, and those who are creating chances. Young but...
Traveling Circle – Escape From Black Cloud (2012) review & interview
Traveling Circle was formed around 2006. Trio of musicians from Brooklyn New York combine many different genres. From soft hypnotic melodies to heavier songs. Their influences come from...
Paper Garden – The Paper Garden (1968) review
The Paper Garden “The Paper Garden Presents” (Relics Records, 2012) You can’t always judge an album by its cover, but in this case you can. Housed in a...
The Growlers – Hung at Heart (2013) review
Once upon a time there was a party-band called The Grateful Dead, and while most Growlers' fans don’t have the foggiest idea who The Dead are, The Growlers...
Chuck Prophet – ‘Temple Beautiful’ (2012)
For my way of thinking, there are only three records that are about cities, the life in those cities, the culture, the times, the excesses, the joy, the...
Secret Saucer – Four On The Floor (2011) review
The band Secret Saucer was formed in 2001, during a weekend jam session in the studio in Ohio. The subject of the jam was pretty simple: play space...
Manic Street Preachers – The Holy Bible (1994) review
Rock & Roll has been riddled with odd, peculiar, and disturbing stories in its 60 year lifespan. I can think of a few that deserve mentioning, especially the...
Hell Preachers Inc. – Supreme Psychedelic Underground (1969) & Ugly Custard -Psicosis (1971) review
Hell Preachers Inc. "Supreme Psychedelic Underground"/Ugly Custard "Psicosis" (Gear Fab Records 2013) Long ago and far away, in a world that existed before digital domination, fly by night...
CAN – The Lost Tapes (2012) review
CAN - The Lost Tapes (Spoon Records, 2012) CAN has given us a very rare sort of treat that, as the years stack on, is less and less likely...