Sunday, January 1 1995
Liberty 37: The Greatest Gift
Liberty 37’s new album, The Greatest Gift is as uninteresting as it is inconsistent. You won’t find yourself singing any of these songs in the…
Kerry Livgren: Collector’s Sedition (Volume 1)
This latest effort for the former songwriter and multi-instrumentalist of Kansas could have been subtitled “Kerry’s Casserole.” Livgren serves up an astonishing smorgasbord of work,…
Jimmy LaFave: Texoma
There are music scenes, and then there’s Texas, a musical world unto itself in many ways. Where else could under appreciated troubadours like Joe Ely,…
LA Guns: Man in the Moon
Tracii Guns is perhaps the Pete Best of the LA music scene. After starting the primeval line-up of Guns N’ Roses in 1985, he left…
The Ladybug Transistor, The Albemarle Sound
If it wasn’t already apparent from the wealth of great pop albums in 1998, the early output in 1999 makes the case that we are…
The Lesser Birds of Paradise: A Suitable Frame
The Lesser Birds of Paradise require too much patience. With Mark Janka’s sleepy voice and the relaxed guitars, A Suitable Frame is pleasant, but lulling.…
Frank London’s Klezmer Brass Allstars: Di Shikere Kapelye
We are smack dab in the middle of a klezmer revival. The revival did not spring up overnight. Rather this renewed interest has been building…
Les Nubians: Princesses Nubiennes
Les Nubians are a couple of French-African sisters who bust out in Lauren Hill style R&B and soul. The catch is that much of their…
Laura Love: Fourteen Days
Laura Love, the funky-folk princess releases her new 11-song collection Fourteen Days, on Zoe Records. Love kicks the album off with a deep funky beat,…
Patty Loveless, Classics
Loveless has recorded a mountain of great music over the course of her career.
Tom LoMacchio: Five Years Later
Calming. Very calming. That’s the path nearly every song takes on Tom LoMacchio’s acoustic guitar-based full-length album, Five Years Later. There’s a nice little feeling…
Lard: ‘70s Tock Must Die
There’s always room for Jello. Biafra that is. It may be up to debate, but I think its pretty fair to say that the Dead…
Lilys, The 3-Way
Kurt Heasley has a ‘60s obsession to be sure, specifically the Small Faces and the Zombies, but he’s one of the few able to co-op…
Lil’ Kim: The Notorious Kim
Ms. Kimberly “Lil’ Kim” Jones, here’s your most telling lyric: “You can never be me. You can only resemble.” Apparently, though, resemblance is a good…
The Love Dogs, Heavy Petting
Not just another band of hepcat posers, Boston’s Love Dogs is the real swinging deal. Their brand of frenetic, head shaking, toe tapping, jump blues…
Annbjørg Lien: Baba Yaga
Listening to Annbjørg Lien’s latest modern folk effort, Baba Yaga, is much like giving over your autonomy and partaking of a rich musical journey. There’s…
Low: Christmas
I admit it. I am a holiday music fanatic. Each year, I roam the stores in search of the perfect Christmas record. But this year…
Love As Laughter: Destination 2000
First the Backstreet Boys released Millenium. Then Will Smith had a hit with “Will2K.” Even Queensryche attempted to revive their bloated carcass of a career…
Laika & the Cosmonauts: Laika Sex Machine
Laika & the Cosmonauts are, in simplest terms, a Finnish surf band. “A Finnish surf band?” you ask. Well, it may seem odd, but consider…
Linus of Hollywood: Your Favorite Record
This recording burst out of nowhere to tremendous underground acclaim on the Internet among various persons who understand the beauty of a hook and high…
