The Explorers Club – Grand Hotel
By • 04/17/2012
Pastiche: “A literary, musical, or artistic piece consisting wholly or chiefly of motifs or techniques borrowed from one or more sources.” There’s no getting …
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The Golden Bears – Write It Like You Find It
By • 03/12/2012
Here is what I’ve learned: The Golden Bears are a duo, with a fair amount of help, out of Portland, Oregon: Julianna Bright (vocals …
Sleeping In The Aviary – You And Me, Ghost
By • 02/13/2012
From Minneapolis via Madison, Wisconsin comes another band to disrupt my ignorance. This is their fourth album, not a stitch of the previous three …
They ain’t heavy….
By • 02/08/2012
Never as naughty as the Rolling Stones, nor as pin-up perfect as Herman’s Hermits; seldom as musically adventurous as the Yardbirds, nitty-gritty as the …
The Wrong Words – The Wrong Words
By • 02/07/2012
The Wrong Words – The Wrong Words [Trouble In Mind/2011]
As always I’m a bit out of the loop, though being 3000 miles away might …
The Ugly Beats – Motor!
By • 02/04/2012
The Ugly Beats – Motor! [Get Hip/2010]
This Austin, Texas’ combo is back for a third go-round. They’ve gone whole hog this time with the …
The Story Of The Kinks
By • 01/31/2012
Your Really Got Me: The Story of the Kinks [ABC/Voiceprint]
Unfortunately this is another poorly cobbled together package. Contrary to the PR blurb …
Bobby Emmett – Learning Love
By • 01/30/2012
Bobby Emmett – Learning Love [D.I.Y/2010]
Bobby Emmett spent a few years in the earlier part of this decade playing his Hammond organ, and for …
The British Are Coming … Again
By • 01/29/2012
“No more Beatles! No more Stones! We just want the Viletones!” went the cry of true teen angst ‘round my Toronto neighborhood circa the …
Harvey Kubernik in his Canyon Of Dreams
By • 01/27/2012
I certainly tend to agree that, in the infamous words of no less an authority on all things Laurel Canyon, California as F. Zappa, …
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