Joseph Kyle
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It’s easy to dismiss Charo as hokum, a camp act with little talent. Sure, she did a great job of cultivating that image of a ditsy blonde who barely knows the language, often delivering funny comments in her broken English, all while making sure to shake her body and yelling her catch-phrase “Cuchi-cuchi!” But behind… Read more
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A long time ago, in my first year at Texas Tech University, I had a conversation with a man at a bar. He said he was working on a new record. He described the process as a tedious yet fun endeavor, but he wasn’t from Lubbock and he was ready to go back home. He… Read more
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WOO is the moniker of brothers Mark and Clive Ives, who have quietly and privately recorded together for the last four decades, making soft, gentle music that is mostly instrumental in nature and often quite beautiful. When The Past Arrives may be a new record, but it’s actually a collection of songs recorded over the past… Read more
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Hello! This little playlist samples some of the music you’ll be hearing this week. So cozy up someplace nice for the next 50 minutes and give yourself an aural gander into what we’ll be talking about this week. Enjoy! Read more
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If one were looking for a band that captured the zeitgeist of early 1960s British rock, one would do well to seek out the Manchester quartet The Scorpions. Formed in 1964, during their brief two-year career, they would release a dozen singles and two albums. They were more regarded as a live band, especially… Read more
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One of the more interesting trends of the 1970s was the development of the “farewell residency,” when bands would end their run with a series of shows, which would result in the the release of a final concert album. Thus was the case for Welsh-based Man, a band that had specialized in an enjoyable blend… Read more
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In 1977, producer Art Brambila embarked on a project that would serve as a thank-you to labor leader Cesar Chavez, who had helped him get sponsorship for his television show, The Mean Salsa Machine. He then compiled and composed ten songs inspired by his speeches, or songs sung at rallies, and set about recording… Read more
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Upon its release in 1987, Heaven on Earth, Belinda Carlisle‘s second solo album, was a grand slam hit. The Go-Go’s lead singer had parlayed the success of her previous band with 1986’s Belinda, which spawned one excellent single, “Mad About You,” but was overall a weak effort from an artist trying to create her own identity… Read more
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We’re going to be doing some different things with this feature, one of which is today’s offering, a collection of the videos released from today’s featured review, which will be posted later this morning. I’ve tried to gather up all the official videos from official sources, but that’s not always possible, so the quality varies.… Read more
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