Wednesday, April 1, 2020

New Music Monthly: April 2020 releases

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Hope that everybody has been staying safe, staying indoors, and listening to a bunch of music! The pandemic crisis has impacted album releas...
Friday, March 27, 2020

Archive Review: Iggy Pop's Avenue B (1999)

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One of the problems of being a cultural icon is that it becomes increasingly harder to fool the marks. So much has been said of the legend...

Archive Review: Iggy & the Stooges' Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell (1999)

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When Elektra Records dumped the Stooges way back in 1971, how could they have known that they had unleashed a literal Frankenstein’s monst...
Friday, March 20, 2020

Archive Review: Ghostface Killah's Supreme Clientele (2001)

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The Wu-Tang Clan revolutionized rap music in a way that trailblazers like Public Enemy, Run-DMC, or NWA can’t match. Using the multiple MC...

Archive Review: Wu-Tang Clan's Wu-Tang Forever (1997)

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The long-awaited Wu-Tang Clan sophomore effort is a mixed bag of viciously brilliant rhymes, searing hip-hop and insipid pop-culture phil...
Friday, March 13, 2020

Archive Review: Klaus Schulze's Mirage (2005 reissue)

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Twenty-eight years ago, they didn’t really even have a name for this stuff. “Space Music” wouldn’t enter into the shared consciousness of ...

Archive Review: Klaus Schulze’s Picture Music (2005 reissue)

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One of the godfathers of contemporary “space music,” composer, musician, and visionary Klaus Schulze was experimenting with electronic to...
Friday, March 6, 2020

Short Rounds: The Bluefields, Dave Clark Five, Marshall Crenshaw, Gary Moore, Gwil Owen & Watermelon Slim (2020)

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New album releases in 150 words or less… The Bluefields – Day In the Sun (Underground Treehouse Records) Veterans of Nashville’s countr...
Sunday, March 1, 2020

New Music Monthly: March 2020 releases

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Spring is right around the corner and as the weather heats up, so too does the release schedule. The month of March promises a bounty of new...