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A listener’s guide to THE CHURCH
This is a special post for me. Many people have a “personal” musical act that really inspired them during their formative years, and I’m no different. Around 1990, as a geeky, sort of introverted (ok,...
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A listener’s guide to THE CHURCH, part II: Some solo albums
A few months ago I did a roundup of albums by Aussie psych legends The Church, which many seemed to enjoy. I was asked to attempt a tougher task, the band’s massive solo and side project discography....
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THE WATERBOYS – A rock in the weary land (2000) Establishing Mike Scott’s...
Mike Scott is one of rock’s most endearingly picaresque figures as well as one of its most talented. Over a long career starting in the early eighties he has constantly confounded listeners (and...
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Spirit of the Age: The genius of ROBERT CALVERT
If you know anything about Robert Calvert, you’re probably a Hawkwind fan, and in that case I’ll be preaching to the choir. However, if you aren’t, you still must read on. In Calvert, we’re talking...
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Concert Review! The Waterboys in Toronto, September 18, 2013
Scotsman Mike Scott’s puckish comet of a persona has blazed a trail of unabashedly romantic, mystical and ambitious Celtic rock ‘n roll wit and wisdom across the musical sky for a few decades now. He...
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Book review! Metal on Ice by Sean Kelly
OK, I’m going to start getting even more ambitious here at my bloggie and start talking about books. I read a lengthy music book over the last … winter that I quite enjoyed but never got around to...
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10 really good Canadian albums!
I’ve mentioned a few times that I’m from Canada, and that I maybe sometimes don’t show the necessary respect for the wealth of musical talent this country contains. Once Canada became the spiritual...
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A personal reflection on LOU REED
Today Lou Reed died, and I’m sure the media will soon be packed with verbose tributes to his long, varied and highly influential career. So what one little blogger might say is not really of interest,...
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DOUBLE LIVE! Grading the glory of the 1970s double album
The seventies was the time in music when everything was big. Sure, rootsy, down-to-earth post hippie singer-songwriters were plugging away successfully — in fact, the world of music was probably more...
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March Netaudio Revue 2
Hey, lookit me slowly catching up on my submissions emails! And I did greatly enjoy the stuff you will be reading about and checking out below, much of which is free or cheap to own on your very own...
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10 Great Rock Albums from the Desolate 1990s
Time for a list because as all observers of the Internet well know, if you make an article into a list, far more people will read it. But I do try to make mine interesting for people with an attention...
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COVER VERSIONS – Albums by Steven Wilson, Daniel Cavanagh, Ulver, The Church...
Ah, the “cover version”. The staple of musicians needing to fill out an album for contractual reasons. Subject to vicious critiquing by fans of the covered artists. And now, in 2016, damnably hard to...
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