Review: Anthony B.
Anthony B. “Street Knowledge” (VP Records) For those not familiar with Anthony B., he has been mashing up the Jamaican dancehalls for a hot minute now. Numerous 45’s can be heard at any given Reggae dance at multiple times in…
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Review: Baby Woodrose
Baby Woodrose “Money for Soul” (Bad Afro) This power soul trio has a psychedelic rock style with vocals out front and crystalline clearly delivered in a blue-eyed R&B style. The Danish band performs with two guitars and no bass. The…
Review: Downway / Belvedere
Downway / Belvedere “Split: Hometown Advantage” (Sessions / Union Group) Ah, Canadians. What would the world be without them? Well, probably pretty much the same as it is now, save for these two exceptional punk bands. The first five tracks…
Review: Betty Blowtorch
Betty Blowtorch “Last Call” (Foodchain Records) While this is nominally a Betty Blowtorch album it really is a celebration of bassist vocalist Bianca Butthole through rarities and live recordings made with Betty Blowtorch and Butt Trumpet. (Bianca passed away in…
Review: Big Midnight
Big Midnight “Everything for the First Time” (Alive) Big Midnight captures that extremely triumphant, potent feeling imparted when first we heard Cult’s Electric (“When Shadows Come Alive”) and Iggy Pop’s first, classic solo records, like Lust for Life (“Love for…
Review: Canned Heat
Canned Heat “Friends in the Can” (Fuel 2000) Friends in the Can is an excellent blues/rock album from lead veterans of the genre. Several guest appear on this album to spice things up. This include Roy Rogers on “Bad Trouble”…
Review: Consumed
Consumed “Pistols at Dawn” (BYO Records) What’s worse than a job interview? I can’t think of anything I hate more than sitting in a cramped office answering the same thirty questions about hypothetical situations and “describe a time” instances. On…
Review: Cowboys International
Cowboys International “Revisited” (Pnuma Recordings) New wave music incorporated David Bowie and Roxy Music look and sound into a sub-genre called the New Romantic Movement. This started by 1980 and burned our halfway through the decade leaving us with its…
Review: 1905
1905 ““Voice”” (Exotic Fever Records) When was the last time you heard a band whose sound encapsulated death metal, folk rock and everything in between. I bet it leaves most fans perplexed that the teacher from Beavis and Butthead and…