Album Reviews
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Guitarist Don Rich’s untimely death cut short an already impressive musical career barely a decade long, and this compilation of his performances with Buck Owens’ band The Buckaroos highlights some of his best work. Read more
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This Black Friday Record Store Day release offers up an album from 1962 that is notable more for its notoriety than its content. Read more
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This Black Friday Record Store Day release offers up an album from 1962 that is notable more for its notoriety than its content. Read more
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This twofer offers up the best of the best from Dave & Sugar, who may be obscure now, but in their time were quite successful in making an enjoyable blend of country and pop. Read more
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This twofer offers up the best of the best from Dave & Sugar, who may be obscure now, but in their time were quite successful in making an enjoyable blend of country and pop. Read more
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British progressive group Quiet World took a bold step and released a conceptual record for its debut album. The Road was a gamble that didn’t pay off; this reissue, however, shows that there was more to the story, and serves as a cautionary tale about being too audacious too soon in one’s career. Read more
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British progressive group Quiet World took a bold step and released a conceptual record for its debut album. The Road was a gamble that didn’t pay off; this reissue, however, shows that there was more to the story, and serves as a cautionary tale about being too audacious too soon in one’s career. Read more
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Zager & Evans came out of nowhere with a smash single that offered up an eerily prophetic vision of the dystopian future-and then they went right back into oblivion. This collection compiles most of their recorded work–mostly lovely baroque pop songs by a band with a stylistic identity problem. Read more
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Zager & Evans came out of nowhere with a smash single that offered up an eerily prophetic vision of the dystopian future-and then they went right back into oblivion. This collection compiles most of their recorded work–mostly lovely baroque pop songs by a band with a stylistic identity problem. Read more
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This reissue of the sole album by Columbus-based shoegazers The Emerald Down sends us back to our nascent zine-scribbler days, because, hey, what we said then is still true now–only thing that’s changed is that Scream The Sound is now lauded as a classic American shoegaze record. Read more
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