Sunday, January 1 1995
The Hollisters: Sweet Inspiration
I grew up more than a bit around C&W, and I watched everybody from Spade Cooley to the Collins Kids perform live on local television.…
Chris Hillman, Like a Hurricane
Though he may not be a household name, Chris Hillman has cut a wide swath across the rock and roll landscape. As a founding member…
Penelope Houston: Once in a Blue Moon
Once in a Blue Moon is Penelope Houston’s 11th album. It’s a folkie sounding album by the former lead singer of the revolutionary 1970’s punk…
Her Space Holiday: Home Is Where You Hang Yourself
The title of Her Space Holiday’s latest album, Home Is Where You Hang Yourself, sets listeners up to expect depressing music about reaching the lowest…
Freddie Hubbard: New Colors
Although rather more firmly in the mainstream than some would wish, this album marks a triumphant return to form for a man whose recording career…
The Hope Blister, ...smile’s ok
Dreamy, ethereal female vocals underpinned by haunting melodies and atmospheric textures have been the trademark of 4AD since This Mortal Coil first sprung from the…
HIM: Our Point of Departure
By design, the fourth full length release by HIM does really amazing structural and temporal work, with its six tracks that are at once discrete…
The Hoods: Time . . . The Destroyer
Sacramento, California based band, The Hoods, have been making waves in the metal-based hardcore scene for six years now, and it appears that all the…
Wayne Horvitz: American Bandstand
Cool, evocative and full of wonderful understated playing, most notably by guitarist Timothy Young, Wayne Horvitz’s American Bandstand is outstanding. The line-up for this album…
The Huntingtons, File Under Ramones
Herein are 20 near-greats done up in the Huntingtons’ inimitable style. Which also happens to be the Ramones’ inimitable style. If Mikey Huntington’s vocals do…
The Harvest Ministers: The Embezzling Kisses EP
Throughout the history of pop music, songs about a desire for love have often been worded in terms that could apply as easily to a…
Horace Pinker: Pop Culture Failure
Although their press release claims Horace Pinker to be one of contemporary punk’s most underrated bands, I feel that the amount of attention directed towards…
Hayseed Dixie: A Hillbilly Tribute to AC/DC
Who knew AC/DC was so inspiring? Oft criticized for essentially making the same album over and over again since its inception, the Aussie rockers are…
Nigel Hayes: But Is It Art?
What is going on in Europe? First Germany with the likes of Jazzanova and the Rainer Truby Trio, then Scandinavia (the excellent Bugge Wesseltoft) and…
Aubrey Haynie: A Man Must Carry On
This is bluegrass. Straight up bluegrass. Well, with a little country thrown in here and there, but not much. Aubrey Haynie is probably the most…
The Hurricane Lamps: Tales From the Sink
Take one listen to The Hurricane Lamps’ Tales From the Sink, and it’s no real big secret that it was mostly recorded on an 8-track…
Heaven 17: Absolutely the Best Live
There was a time and place, in a galaxy not so very different from our own, that life on a planet called Pop looked rather…
Kristin Hersh: Sunny Border Blue
Kristin Hersh has built a career on fascinating and compelling lyrics that are, to put it mildly, somewhat obscure. They have always been just gut-wrenching…
Hue & Cry: Next Move
Working with musicians including reeds player Tommy Smith (whose last album, Bluesmith I reviewed for PopMatters), Hue & Cry have attempted to make a Sinatra…
Hemi Cuda: Classics for Lovers
As a resident of the Mile High City, it always excites me to see a Denver band do fairly well in the music biz. With…
