As his career matured, Nick Lowe developed a measure of respectability that might have surprised his younger self; particularly the irreverent Nick Lowe who recorded as The Tartan Horde and titled his solo debut The Jesus of Cool. Lowe’s lyrics […]
As his career matured, Nick Lowe developed a measure of respectability that might have surprised his younger self; particularly the irreverent Nick Lowe who recorded as The Tartan Horde and titled his solo debut The Jesus of Cool. Lowe’s lyrics […]
You’re not imagining it. The title of the latest record from guitar band Los Straitjackets sounds a little familiar. What’s So Funny About Peace, Love and Los Straitjackets is something of a tribute, as the group offers us their versions […]
Robyn Hitchcock has released so many albums over so many decades that even those who love him might be tempted to think, oh, another one, and then file it away. But Robyn Hitchcock (out April 21 on Yep Roc) is a […]
Chuck Prophet Bobby Fuller Died For Your Sins 4.5 out of 5 stars Chuck Prophet returned to where it all started, Hyde Street Studios. In the early ’80s, his high school band paid $5 an hour to practice in […]
With a name borrowed from Bob Dylan and a tuneful literacy channeling Elvis Costello, John Wesley Harding introduced himself almost two decades ago as a witty, British singer-songwriter of cheek and tuneful charm. Since then, he has earned considerable respect […]
With Bobby Fuller Died For Your Sins (out February 10 on Yep Roc), Chuck Prophet has tuned his inner antenna to Top 40 and ‘60s psychedelia. The Nuggets garage-band anthology has imprinted itself within this music’s DNA. Having titled an […]
How can a band that is this powerful, this expansive and this enduring remain this little known? Maybe it’s the problem with the name—there are no Sadies in the Sadies, and no women at all. Maybe it’s the Canadian thing—the […]
It opens with a clatter, flashes with epiphany and resolves itself into prayer. However the listener comes to terms with the sixth studio album by Tift Merritt, Stitch of the World (out January 27 on Yep Roc), it’s a song […]
Forty years and twenty albums from their founding, New York’s Fleshtones are still cranking out garage-powered rock ‘n’ roll. Even more impressive than the length of their career is its consistently high quality amid a lack of commercial acclaim. Though […]
After a few false starts, the three album run of Canada’s Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet has finally been reissued in expanded form on LP, CD and digital download! Savvy Show Stoppers Formed in Toronto in 1984, this instrumental […]
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