Posted on November 25, 2008 by DrSlammy
A lot of bands have released pretty good debut records, only to follow them up with less-than-spectacular careers. The rule used to be (before the FCC, the recording industry and the radio industry conspired to destroy all music) that you learned what you needed to know about a band with its third album. Given how [...]
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Posted on July 17, 2008 by felixwas
Some of us never laughed when Jerry Lee Lewis kicked his piano. We knew he wasn’t doing it for laughs; we knew that if Mozart himself had walked into the concert hall, Lewis probably would have kicked him, too, and the president and the pope or whoever else had the balls to step into the [...]
Filed under: Reviews, Rock | Tagged: Graham Parker | 3 Comments »
Posted on July 1, 2008 by DrSlammy
I’ve been a very big Don Dixon fan since the late ’70s, so when his new CD, The Nu-Look, dropped I was bouncing around the living room like Snoopy doing a happy dance. Sadly, a lot of people don’t know Don’s music – although many know his work as the producer of Murmur and Reckoning [...]
Filed under: Internet, Interviews, Power Pop, Rock, Roots | Tagged: Arrogance, Beat Rodeo, Big Head Todd and the Monsters, Bjork, Bonnie Raitt, Booker T and the MGs, Butch Vig, Butterfly Boucher, Camp, Cannonball Adderly, Chris Allen, Chris Isaak, Chris Stamey, Cream, Dave Matheson, Diana Krall, Dixie Chicks, Don Dixon, Don Dixon & the Jump Rabbits, Donald Erb, Elvis Costello, Eric Clapton, Gary Gersh, Graham Parker, Guadalcanal Diary, Hootie & the Blowfish, Imogen Heap, James McMurtry, Jamie Hoover, Jane Siberry, Jim Brock, Jimi Hendrix, Kim Carnes, Let's Active, Lou Rawls, Loudon Wainwright III, Macy Gray, Marshall Crenshaw, Marti Jones, Matt Barrett, Matthew Sweet, Michael Stipe, Moxy Fruvous, Nick Lowe, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, Otis Redding, Parthenon Huxley, Paul Carrack, Radiohead, REM, Robert Kirkland, Sarah McLachlan, Shalini, Silvertone, Sloan Wainwright, Steve Winwood, Supro Thunderbolt, Syd Straw, The Connells, the dBs, The Pinetops, The Reivers, The Smithereens, The Spongetones, Tommy Keene, X-Teens | Leave a Comment »
