Label: MVD Released: July 8, 2008 Most documentaries are just visual histories of a band or a scene. The trouble is that they take a scientific approach with a hypothesis that they attempt to prove over the course of the film. But punk is a human story and one that, at its best, has dictated its own future. Punk’s Not… Read more »
LOOK MEXICO – Fall Tour Update / New Digital EP ——————————————————- * U.S. Tour begins today * Shows with Fake Problems, Cobra Skulls, Bear Colony, The Winter Sounds * For song EP, Gasp Asp, now available digitally——————————————————- Look Mexico (Tallahassee, FL) hits the road today for a month-long tour of the U.S. The band’s newly converted veggie oil-powered bus will… Read more »
Label: Smithsonian Folkways Released: July 29, 2008 I was scared when I was first asked to review Richmond Blues. Most of what I’ve heard from Smithsonian Folkways has been extraordinary, but most of the music I’ve discovered on their label is classic stuff that’s passed the test of time. It’s hard to go wrong with Lead Belly or Paul Robeson… Read more »
Song: ActionArtist: SweetAlbum: Best of Sweet If you can get past the fact that it sounds like it was recorded in a tin can and played back on an AM transistor radio from Radio Shack circa 1975, it’s a pretty awesome song.
Label: Self-released Released: 2007 RatingsSatriani: 5/10Zappa: 6/10Dylan: 6/10 Aretha: 6/10Overall: 6/10 Website Myspace If you’re curious about my rating categories, read the description.
This one is a little gruesome. It’s sad that some people live their lives this way.
Crazy video, crazy song, crazy band. Bigelf’s latest is one of the best albums to come out this year.
Label: Nine Mile Records Released: July 15, 2008 There is an interesting revival of old-time music afoot. Tapping into vaudeville, string bands and vocal groups of the 30s and 40s, these bands’ strengths can also be their limitations, making many strictly revivalists rather a modern look at the past. A few, however, manage to break the bounds of revivalism to… Read more »
Label: Secretly Canadian Released: June 17, 2008 Just because an artist has done all that can be expected of him and has earned the right to rest on his laurels, doesn’t mean the work he started is done. So it is with Bob Dylan and The War on Drugs has picked up the cause and put their own spin on… Read more »
Label: Icon Records Released: August 5, 2008 There are great albums that are definitive in their genre, essential to their scene or even influential across the full spectrum of rock music. Then, there are (possibly) great albums cultivated on ground made fertile by their more innovative predecessors. Can they really be called great? Who’s to say for sure, but there… Read more »