Reviews
Friday, August 28 2009
Bushman's Revenge: You Lost Me at Hello
Not for the weak of heart, but open-minded fans of guitar music will find a lot to admire in Even Helte Hermansen's passionate playing.
Wednesday, August 19 2009
Rob Mazurek Quintet: Sound Is
Mazurek's latest Delmark release is a complete and well-sequenced work that's as simultaneously beautiful and challenging as anything in the cornetist's discography.
Monday, August 17 2009
Drive-By Truckers: Live from Austin TX
Live from Austin TX is still an excellent document of a great rock 'n roll band doing what it does best.
Wednesday, August 12 2009
Cracker: Sunrise in the Land of Milk and Honey
Sixteen years past its moment in the sun and in the face of critical indifference, Cracker builds sardonic wit and musical in-jokes into what is possibly the best album of its career.
Tuesday, August 11 2009
The Fully Celebrated: Drunk on the Blood of the Holy Ones
A potent concoction that will hopefully raise the "fully celebrated" of the band's name from irony to reality.
Ian Gillan: One Eye to Morocco [24.Jul.09]
Japandroids: Post-Nothing [3.Jun.09]
Meat Puppets: Sewn Together [26.May.09]
Booker T.: Potato Hole [7.May.09]
Superdrag: Industry Giants [7.May.09]
Roswell Rudd: Trombone Tribe [28.Apr.09]
Bob Mould: Life and Times [13.Apr.09]
Lotus Plaza: The Floodlight Collective [1.Apr.09]
Dead Man: Euphoria [30.Mar.09]
Wicked Witch: Chaos: 1978-86 [25.Mar.09]
Diagonal: Diagonal [17.Mar.09]
Ume: Sunshower [24.Feb.09]
Beans: Only [9.Jun.06]
Prince: 3121 [30.Mar.06]
Chihei Hatakeyama: Minima Moralia [9.Mar.06]
Dwele: Some Kinda... [20.Jan.06]
Breakestra: Hit the Floor [27.Oct.05]
The Makers: Everybody Rise! [5.Oct.05]
Badi Assad: Verde [26.Sep.05]
Giant Drag: Hearts and Unicorns [15.Sep.05]
SFJazz Collective: SFJazz Collective [16.Aug.05]
The Mobius Band: The Loving Sounds of Static [3.Aug.05]
Various Artists: The Sexual Life of the Savages: Underground Post-Punk from São Paulo, Brazil [14.Jun.05]
Branford Marsalis: Romare Bearden Revealed [13.Jan.04]
Pat Martino: Think Tank [12.Dec.03]
Jimi Hendrix: Jimi Plays Berkeley [DVD] [9.Dec.03]
The Temptations: Psychedelic Soul [11.Nov.03]
Eugene McDaniels: Outlaw [9.Oct.03]
Jason Moran: The Bandwagon [22.Sep.03]
Kings of Leon: Youth and Young Manhood [16.Sep.03]
Neil Young: Greendale [29.Aug.03]
Marilyn Manson: The Golden Age of Grotesque [27.Aug.03]
Dr. Lonnie Smith: Boogaloo to Beck [12.Aug.03]
Mott the Hoople: Greatest Hits [1.Aug.03]
Mötley Crüe: Too Fast for Love [11.Jul.03]
Radiohead: Hail to the Thief [20.Jun.03]
The Isley Brothers: 3 + 3 [remastered] [30.May.03]
John Coltrane: A Love Supreme [Deluxe Edition] [16.May.03]
Large Professor: 1st Class [25.Apr.03]
MURS: The End of the Beginning [31.Mar.03]
Jerry Cantrell: Degradation Trip Volumes 1 & 2 [28.Feb.03]
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Nocturama [26.Feb.03]
Jesse Davis: The Setup [19.Feb.03]
