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Reissue Reviews
Welcome to the San Fernando Valley, circa 1976. Los Angeles’ own The Quick released one full-length album in their three year existence for Mercury Records – and now Real Gone…
Sub Pop Records recently reissued Jeremy Enigk’s Return of the Frog Queen, a circa-96 solo debut whose first printing remains, justifiably, a much-sought-after cult classic. It also has become, over…
WIRE. Colin Newman, Graham Lewis, Bruce Gilbert, Robert Gotobed. The name automatically catapults me into a different time; a different mind and many emotions. Without a doubt, they are…
The cello weeps and sows and soars, and so it goes with Randall Holt and his Inside The Kingdom of Splendor and Madness, which gets the CD/cassette re-release treatment April…
Chris Hillman co-founded some of the most classic, seminal, groundbreaking acts of the ’60s and ’70s – namely The Byrds, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Manassas, and The Souther-Hillman-Furay Band. But…
This is very exciting – certainly to me. Yung Wu was a Feelies side project with one classic album, Shore Leave, on Steve Fallon’s Coyote Records in 1987, which I…
This Friday belongs to Your Food. The Louisville post-punk quartet — whose only LP, 1983’s Poke It With A Stick, is getting the reissue treatment at the end of this…
Tom Waits never has sounded better, at least in terms of fidelity, than he does on the new, re-mastered versions of Alice and Blood Money — which were released, to…
My first exposure to the bizarre genius of U-Men came when I first tracked down a vinyl copy of the scene-setting C/Z Records comp. Deep Six back in the early…
So there have been a few occasions where I had been asked to write about Chris Bell’s I Am The Cosmos album – and I’ve done it. Having bought the…
This wonderful, 22-track compilation is just part of the work Chris Bell did before he dug his heels in with Big Star in 1971. Omnivore Recordings has gathered selections from…
Record Store Day 2017 has come and gone, but that doesn’t mean there still isn’t treasure to be found online and at your local record store. I’ve never been one…
You have to give me a little latitude here to rhapsodize about The Creation; my love for them spans more than 30 years, since I first discovered and heard the…
Let’s fold back the sheets on 2016, this death’s bed of a year, by focusing our attention on one of its brighter moments, an overlooked reissue that fills in the…
The late ’60’s certainly were a time of changes, turmoil, growth, exploration… basically, the universe turned upside down, nowhere more so than in music. I don’t need to wax poetic…
The first thing I want to disclose before going further is to say that in the canon of the three albums Big Star, one of my favorite bands (and part…
A brief history of one of the better heavy bands of the early ’80’s – and one which even captured my imagination (having been a fan of Graham Bonnet when…
These Massachusetts based visionaries have created a compelling and expansive sound that is sure to broaden their fanbase. Their interesting past and present day gigs (record producer, session musician, public…
What can you really say that hasn’t already been said about Paul McCartney? This isn’t some “rock critic” trying to dissect the now 46-year solo career of the greatest…
While Popdose recently reviewed the new, long-overdue release from Blue Orchids, the band led and fronted by guitarist/frontman Martin Bramah (original guitarist of The Fall), we also take great pleasure…
If it wasn’t enough that John David (J.D.) Souther’s debut self-titled album was a stunner, then it shouldn’t come as any kind of surprise that his sophomore effort, Black Rose,…
I suppose I could go on and on as to why you should immediately download (buy it first, dammit – these people have families and homes!) The Cucumbers’ newly released…
I’m pretty sure that I won’t be saying anything new or different about The Feelies – I’m sure it’s all been said before since the short summation about this band…
J.D. Souther’s debut solo album could (at least the argument is there) be looked at as the “lost Eagles album” – between the debut and the more countrified Desperado. But…
Ork Records: New York, New York is the vital compilation of all the output from the legendary New York City label of the late 1970’s. Earlier this year, for Record Store…
The final new studio album released by Arthur Lee’s Love in 1974, the long out-of-print Reel To Real is soon to be available again in a remastered CD form with…
Even the best laid plans never quite work out as expected. When David McAlmont first met Bernard Butler in London’s Jazz CafÁ© in 1994, both were still reeling following acrimonious…