Danny Wilson – Be Bop Moptop (1989)purchase this album (Amazon) The first thing you need to know about Danny Wilson, I guess, is that it was a band featuring no…
Jeff Giles
2 Min Read
Ed James – …In the 21st Century (2006) purchase this album (CD Baby) Power pop lovers have always had it rough. The music is tough to write and record properly,…
Jason Hare
6 Min Read
You guys, I’m a bad blogger. I haven’t really posted much in a while. I know you’re all perfectly nice people, and you can probably forgive me for that. But…
John C. Hughes
1 Min Read
In those long-gone days before iPods and burned CDs, when you wanted a nice assortment of songs to take on the road with you, you got your little 90-minute TDK…
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
Pete at Ickmusic gives us Prince’s 9/9/86 show — otherwise known as the end of the Revolution; John at You Must Be from Away treats us to a sampling of…
Jeff Giles
12 Min Read
Note from Jason: As mentioned earlier this week, this week’s CHART ATTACK! wasn’t supposed to be a guest post, but I foolishly didn’t cover my bases for what has turned…
Jeff Giles
3 Min Read
We missed the Van-A-Day post today, obviously, but it wasn’t my fault, I swear — I just couldn’t upload the tracks, on account of tomorrow’s Bootleg City taking forfuckingever to…
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
Tupelo Honey (1971)purchase this album (Amazon) The Background: Nestled between His Band and the Street Choir and St. Dominic’s Preview is this much-loved ode to pastoral domestic bliss, which —…
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
Ellsworth – American Compost (2007)purchase this album (CD Baby) His performing career is about as old as I am (and much more dignified — he’s rubbed shoulders with Leon Russell,…
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
Mister Fusty – Honest Blundering (2006)purchase this album (CD Baby) Review by Jamie Lyon Back in 2000, when Damon Gough released the first Badly Drawn Boy disc The Hour of…
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
Kurt’s weekly roundtable continues, with all sorts of snarking on Clapton and Def Leppard, not to mention a lively debate over certain alleged similarities between Mike Reno and Patty Smyth…
Jason Hare
9 Min Read
Note from Jason: It’s Friday and I’m a lame writer this month, which can only mean one thing: another guest-written CHART ATTACK! This week’s entry is written by our good…
John C. Hughes
1 Min Read
In 1988, after four years of dormancy and a record label change, DEVO unleashed Total DEVO upon the spuds and spudettes of the world. As a huge DEVO-tee since the…
John C. Hughes
1 Min Read
Heya, we’re all over at Kurt’s house, jawin’ about music. Come join us! And yes, I brought up Jobriath.
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
Moondance (1970)purchase this album (Amazon) The Background: The AMG’s Jason Ankeny refers to it as “the yang to Astral Weeks‘ yin,” and that’s about right — loosely speaking, this set…
Jason Hare
7 Min Read
Greetings to you, Mellow Gold-ians, and thank you for your patience as I manage my absolutely wiggidy-whack schedule. We’re back, and wimpier than ever! (Well, maybe not ever, but still…pretty…
Jason Hare
1 Min Read
Between performances of my show and rehearsals for the next Evil Prince Ludwig gig at the Bitter End, I have had precious little time for writing. My hope is to…
John C. Hughes
2 Min Read
Despite becoming a homeowner this year, I’ve discovered that I still owe taxes…so much for all those huge deductions. When I need a quick infusion of cash, the first thing…
Jeff Giles
22 Min Read
[Jefito’s Note: Nope, this isn’t a joke — welcome to The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Slayer, written by none other than reader harmolodic, who you may remember as the author…
Jeff Giles
3 Min Read
The U-Krew – Ugly (1990) Here’s where good old-fashioned civic pride intersects with bad music. The U-Krew, an act I’ll be surprised if any of you remember, had a #28…
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
Apologies for the extended downtime, but at the moment, I’m still a man without a host; as it turns out, the company I chose the other night (after five minutes…
Robert Cass
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Note from Jason: We’re into week three of me pawning my work off onto others for our guest-written Chart Attack! series. Sure, we all know Robert from his astute post…
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
Irish Heartbeat (1988)purchase this album (Amazon) The Background: Two years removed from the critically well-received Poetic Champions Compose, Morrison took an unexpected detour, stripping back all the layers of mysticism…
Jason Hare
7 Min Read
So I’m guessing that you saw my shameless self-promotion earlier this week for my new show, Postcards From A Dead Dog, which had a great opening last night. Well, believe…
John C. Hughes
3 Min Read
Of all the mainstream artists to co-op New Wave, the most successful chart-wise by far was Kim Carnes. And I’m going to posit a fairly radical opinion – she may…
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
Rotten Tomatoes let me give in to my inner snark with this month’s Big Feature: The 100 Worst-Reviewed Films of All Time. (I wrote the Editor’s Notes for Numbers 20-1:except…
Jason Hare
11 Min Read
Note from Jason: Welcome to our second week of guest Chart Attack! posts, written by some of our favorite music bloggers. Today’s post is by the one and only Kurt…
Jason Hare
5 Min Read
Hello again, my mellow friends! It’s time again to take another one of our intrepid Adventures Through The Mines Of Mellow Gold! Today’s song is another gem from one of…
Jason Hare
3 Min Read
Note: This is a post back from when I first started my website last September. I hadn’t yet started the Mellow Gold or Chart Attack! series, so I don’t think…
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
Jonathan Rundman exhumes his ten-year-old interview with Styx member Glen Burtnik; Grace Potter and the Nocturnals cover “Mystery Train”; Kurt kicks off his terrific new Week in Rock feature —…