King Leg – Meet King Leg LP
The beauty of working in a pop culture-identified medium like pop music is that, while the music does initially have finite appeal as ‘new…
TLC – Ooooooohhh… On The TLC Tip (LP, reissue)
From a historical standpoint, it’s always remarkable to observe how and when a dynasty began. Take TLC, for example: to date, the group comes…
Lilly Hiatt – Trinity Lane LP
I must confess that I slept on Lilly Hiatt and her Trinity Lane LP when the album first arrived in my office. Regrettably, there…
Green Day – Revolution Radio (LP)
Some smart aleck is going to say that this review is a bit late in coming (yes, Revolution Radio was released fourteen months ago)…
Vulture Whale – Aluminium LP
Sometimes there’s just no way to mistake where a band comes from. In any given case, it might be the singer’s accent or tonality…
Looming – Seed
It’s only upon starting to listen to Seed that one realizes a female singer fronting an emo band is such a rarity. Why is that?…
The Texas Gentlemen – TX Jelly (LP)
It might not be so easy for readers to remember now, but TX Jelly – the debut LP by Texas Gentlemen – actually springs…
Flipper – Generic Flipper (vinyl reissue)
In music, as is the case in chemistry, the most important element is the one that ultimately provides the catalyst which sets everything else…
Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards – Viking LP (reissue)
If the idea that a classic album is defined as ‘one which holds personal meaning for a listener’ can be taken as factual, then I can…
Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards – Live and Loud!! LP
In this digital age of perfectly pressed, equalized and mastered music, something truly seems to have been lost – particularly from live albums. These…