MUSIC: Choice albums

They tell us….. Disc 1. WBAI-FM Radio Unnameable w/ Bob Fass – 20th October 1970 1. 4:21 No Deal 2. 5:10 Hello Central (Lightnin’ Hopkins) 3. 3:23 Nothing 4. 3:23 I’ll Be Here in the Morning 5. 3:03 Rake 6. 4:25 Farther Along (J.R.Baxter and W.B.Stevens) 7. 4:40 You Are Not Needed Now 8. 2:59 […]

allmusic.com / Fred Thomas: The long stretches between albums that had become standard for indie pop heroes Belle and Sebastian made their 11th studio LP, Late Developers, even more of a surprise, as it was released without much lead-up just eight months after 2022’s A Bit of Previous. Recorded during the same self-produced sessions, Late […]

allmusic.com / MARK DEMMING A lot can happen in a year and a half. In February 2019, Bob Mould released Sunshine Rock, which in addition to reminding us that in the 2010s he was in the midst of an unexpected renaissance and making some of the strongest rock music of his life, saw him embracing […]

STEPHEN THOMAS ERLEWINE / allmusic.com Look Long, the title of Indigo Girls’ 15th album, appears to be an imperative to their audience and a creative challenge to themselves — an attempt to look beyond the internal and familiar. Reuniting with producer John Reynolds, who previously produced the duo’s 1999 LP Come On Now Social, Indigo […]

THOM DUREK / allmusic.com Who’s Calling is the 16th solo album by guitarist Harvey “Snake” Mandel, and his second for Tompkins Square. He is widely considered one of the most innovative guitarists to emerge from Chicago in the 1960s, alongside icons Charlie Musselwhite, Barry Goldberg, Steve Miller, Michael Bloomfield, Paul Butterfield, and Corky Siegel. Along […]

MARK DEMMING / ALLMUSIC.COM Safe at Home, Gram Parsons’ first full-length album (and the only LP he would record with the International Submarine Band), today sounds like a dry run for the country-rock he would later perfect with the Byrds and the Flying Burrito Brothers; it’s also a major changeup from the psychedelically shaded pop/rock […]

FRED THOMAS / ALLMUSIC.COM The Cure’s 1989 album Disintegration was the band’s inarguable artistic peak, and surprisingly also their biggest commercial success to date. A rare feat for any group, but especially unexpected when considering how Disintegration abandoned much of the pop excitement the Cure had been working with through the mid-’80s and returned to […]

REVIEW BY THOM DUREK (allmusic.com) Great Britain’s Earth Records has been the steward of Bert Jansch’s recorded solo legacy. The label issued the three-disc Colours Are Fading Fast with Loren Auerbach (2016), Living in the Shadows and Edge of a Dream (both 2017), which packaged his albums from the 1990s and early 21st century. In […]

REVIEW BY STEPHEN THOMAS ERIEWINE (Allmusic.com) All the rules fell by the wayside with Revolver, as the Beatles began exploring new sonic territory, lyrical subjects, and styles of composition. It wasn’t just John Lennon and Paul McCartney, either — George Harrison staked out his own dark territory with the tightly wound, cynical rocker “Taxman”; the […]

This Special Edition 3DVD set brings together three concerts featuring the great Paul Rodgers. Paul Rodgers “Live In Glasgow” was filmed on was filmed on Paul’s solo tour in 2006 and features tracks from across his career. Paul Rodgers & Friends “Live At Montreux1994” was filmed at the famous festival on the tour in support […]