Dark City Kings – ‘Love Is Punk’ (2024)
What happens when new wave meets folk punk? What happens when the rolling hills of North Carolina collide with the back alleys of New York City? The answer...
Reviews
Edgar Broughton Band – ‘Gone Blue – The BBC Sessions’ (2024)
Prefer a voyage to a mere excursion? This trip is for you. It might surprise that a best-seller of EMI’s Harvest label, dedicated to alternative not mainstream music,...
Snafu – ‘You Know It Ain’t Easy’ (2024)
The inaugural comprehensive anthology of the acclaimed early 70s British rock band, featuring Micky Moody before his Whitesnake days and former Freedom vocalist Bobby Harrison. When bands gather...
Beautify Junkyards – ‘Nova’ (2024)
Back in 2013, Lisbon’s Beautify Junkyards introduced their first full-length album, which was a collection of nine cover versions. The sublime eponymous debut was a statement of intent...
1967: How I Got There and Why I Never Left by Robyn Hitchcock
Robyn Hitchcock’s song lyrics are often jarringly surreal, startling listeners with their absurdist observations. And so, it should be no surprise to those familiar with his music that...
The Loons – ‘Memories Have Faces’ (2024)
Fifth album by San Diego-based garage / psychedelic practitioners the Loons and, in terms of the songwriting / performance as well as the overall sonic balance and production,...
Eamon The Destroyer – ‘Alternate Piranhas EP’ (2024)
Eamon apparently doesn’t subscribe to the theory that you can’t go home again. More like, if at first you don’t succeed, release the outtakes. We loved last year’s...
Baikida Carroll – ‘Orange Fish Tears’ (1974)
Parisian label Souffle Continu keeps on strolling through the history of the capital’s jazz undergrounds. With its work on the PALM catalog, it is tackling one of the...
Dando Shaft – ‘Shadows Across The Moon’
There aren’t many bands whose birthplace might, idiomatically, seem like an embargo from a period’s genre. Not always in this case either, but often. They were never (officially)...
Re-release of David Rosenboom’s 1981 ‘Future Travel’
The soon-to-be-released recording 'Future Travel' (1981) is a still up-to-date pondering into the movement(s) of human culture and evolution of consciousness. The recording includes 7 pieces, the titles...