Friday, November 25, 2022

CD Review: John Lee Hooker's The Healer (1989/2022)

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By 1989, blues legend John Lee Hooker was entering the final chapter of an impressive career that had endured for over 50 years. Hooke...

R.A.D! Short Cuts: Big Audio Dynamite, Omar & the Howlers, Skyclad, Steel Pole Bathtub, 'Mad Love' OST & Wailing Souls (1995)

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Big Audio Dynamite – F-Punk (Radioactive Records/MCA) Big Audio Dynamite closed out 1994 with a contract-ending record for Sony that was tr...
Friday, November 18, 2022

Archive Review: Eric B & Rakim's Let the Rhythm Hit ‘Em (1990)

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Rap music, more so, perhaps, than any other form or genre of popular music, relies heavily upon the personality of the artist and perfo...

Radical Pizza Wax Works: Ice-T, Ice Cube, Haunted Garage, Kinetic Dissent, MC5 (1992)

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Ice-T – O.G. The Original Gangster (Warner Reprise Video) Sure, we all know that Ice-T is fly, the baddest rhyming rap mutherfucker on...
Friday, November 11, 2022

Archive Review: Southside Johnny & LaBamba’s Big Band’s Grapefruit Moon (The Songs of Tom Waits) (2008)

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As a songwriter, Tom Waits seems to be undergoing a sort of popular revival these days. During the spring of 2008, actress Scarlet Joha...

Book Review: John Dougan’s The Who Sell Out (2006)

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The Who Sell Out is, undeniably, one of the legendary rock band’s most adventuresome yet lighthearted of albums. A tribute to the notorious...
Friday, November 4, 2022

Archive Review: Warren Zevon’s Warren Zevon (2008)

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Forget all about Wanted Dead Or Alive , Warren Zevon’s uncharacteristic 1969 debut LP. The album shows none of the wit or caustic wordp...

Book Review: Dave Van Ronk’s The Mayor of MacDougal Street (2005)

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He’s not a household name, although his influence on folk music falls just short of Woodie Guthrie and Bob Dylan. A charismatic performer an...
Sunday, October 30, 2022

The Jimi Hendrix Reader w/annotated discography, reviews & more!

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Better than 50 years beyond his tragic death at the too-young age of 27, Jimi Hendrix still manages to turn heads and stir up controversy. ...