Month: December 2006

This short set was recorded February 23, 1971 at the BBC’s Television Theatre in Shepherd’s Bush, London. An incredibly clean recording, I am hoping Neil explores selections from this tour in his newly minted Archives series. As you might […]

Robyn Hitchcock’s 2006 album Olé! Tarantula was such a strong comeback it re-kindled my interest in The Soft Boys 2004 reunion album, Nextdoorland , which then whetted my appetite to dig out their second album, and opus, 1980’s Underwater Moonlight . Whew – […]

Roy Orbison , like many pioneering rock & roll artists of his generation, has the dubious honor of countless greatest hits collections bearing his name — all of them of varying quality. I know this because I […]

As mentioned in the 2006 Year In Review , Califone’s fifth album, Roots & Crowns , has become one of my favorite albums of 2006. My esteem and fondness for the LP grow with every listen — and possibly might have edged it’s […]

New releases tend to notoriously dry up the last month of the year. This being so, I had been anxiously awaiting the copy of Sonic Youth’s odds and sods compilation, The Destroyed Room , to land in my mailbox. […]

Through my father’s collection I inherited a formidable amount of out-of-print and rare Latin jazz, Latin soul, and salsa on vinyl. One day I will get around to ripping some of it to MP3 format […]

Irish lilt mixed with the attitude of early UK punk rock was what initially powered the The Pogues . Fronted by the (in)famous Shane MacGowan , The Pogues lifted traditional Irish music out of the gutter of past injecting […]

The most recent addition to the “Under Review” DVD series focuses on what would become known as Bowie’s Berlin period from 1976-1979. A particularly fertile period in Bowie’s artistic development, the sessions produced the albums Low , Heroes and Lodger […]