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The Heavy Heavy - All My Dreams
One of the hardest parts in this job is nailing a comparison. Artists groan when their work is pitched against someone else’s, no matter if it’s right on the money; journalists… Read More
Throwing Muses - Sunray Venus
The debut album by Throwing Muses was released in 1986, at the beginning of my sophomore year of college. Back then I had a friend who listened almost exclusively to artists on the British i… Read More
Rasputina - Transylvanian Concubine
Rasputina is one of the most unusual and perplexing musical outfits of the past several years, successfully merging various elements of rock, pop, and classical music into their own unique s… Read More
7Horse - Meth Lab Zoso Sticker
LA’s 7Horse are a duo. Some call them the Two-Man Rolling Stones. It fits. They have a new album. It’s called Livin’ In a Bitch of a World. Like their previous two albums… Read More
The Body & Dis Fig - Coils Of Kaa
US duo The Body, who have long operated in the post-apocalyptic remains of metal and noise, team up here with Dis Fig, AKA Berlin-based DJ, producer and vocalist Felicia Chen, known for her… Read More
The Youngbloods - Sham
My first-ever concert at the Fillmore East in New York City was on November 23, 1968. The headliner was Iron Butterfly, Canned Heat was the middle act and the Youngbloods opened the show. I… Read More
Valravn - Kelling
Before I tell you about the superlative new CD by Valravn, I have to tell you what I like, and dislike, about ice storms. I'm wary of their destructive power. Trees come down, and electrical… Read More
Joe Jackson - Another World
Joe Jackson's detour into the '40s sounds of Louis Jordan and Cab Calloway on 1981's Jumpin' Jive should have made clear that he was more than just another of the new wave's "angry young men… Read More
Imperial Jade - The Call
If you’re a fan of classic rock from the 60s and 70s I think Imperial Jade needs no further introduction. Meanwhile, due to a relatively short career of the band, here follows a short… Read More
The Smiths - Girlfriend In A Coma
At the tail end of 1987, the kings of indie-pop released their fourth and final studio album Strangeways, Here We Come a little over a year after their masterpiece The Queen is Dead. We at M… Read More
L'Rain - Two Face
On her piercing self-titled 2017 debut as L’Rain, Brooklyn artist Taja Cheek sifted through the aftermath of her mother’s death with roaming sensitivity. Intimate field recording… Read More
Dengue Fever - Sni Bong
Dengue Fever’s psychedelic take on the Cambodian pop sounds of the ’60s makes them one of rock ’n’ roll’s most unique success stories. They draw enthusiastic cr… Read More
The Everly Brothers - Cathy's Clown
The Everly Brothers were one of the most important acts in all of American music. There is a reason they were first ballot inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and are in the Count… Read More
Spirit - Dream Within A Dream
Los Angeles based Spirit were riding high after their eponymous debut album found some success and even hit the Billboard album chart's top 40. While they just released that album in January… Read More
Jonatha Brooke - Blood From A Stone
Boston Beats: How did you first get into music?
Jonatha: Well, let’s see, I always sang and I always copied things off of records. I got a guitar when I was 12 for Christmas from… Read More
Etta James - Tell Mama
As the summer of 1967 approached, things did not look auspicious for 29-year-old Etta James, who had spent recent times detoxing at the USC County Hospital and also had spells at Sybil Brand… Read More
Soft Cell - Sex Dwarf
A huge electronically-manipulated chord growls, a synth wails like a siren and then there's Marc Almond's sinister intonation. His voice is a half-whisper, conspiratorial, that of a man tell… Read More
Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend
The ‘sophomore slump’. The ‘difficult third album’. There’s no shortage of handy clichés rolled out to characterise the supposed challenges an artist aft… Read More
Leon Russell - Roll Away The Stone
In the late 1960s, Leon Russell teamed up with guitarist Marc Benno to form The Asylum Choir. The two went on to record a pair of albums that, while never commercial successes, became critic… Read More
Mary In The Junkyard - Goop
Mary in the Junkyard are an exciting experimental rock trio, composed of guitarist and vocalist Clari Freeman-Taylor, bassist and viola player Saya Barbaglia, and drummer David Addison. With… Read More
Steve Hackett - Narnia
In October 1977, news of Steve Hackett's departure from the progressive rock band Genesis was made public. After the band's 1977 tour in support of their eighth studio album Wind & Wuthe… Read More
Thank You Scientist - Son Of A Serpent
Thank You Scientist is a 7 member Crossover Prog band from New Jersey founded in 2009. They have released an EP and 3 full length albums during their time together. "Terraformer" is the 3rd… Read More
Galaxy Juice - How Wide Is The Sun
Galaxy Juice is a psychedelic indie band based in the sandy and sunny Gulf nation of Kuwait. The Khaleej (Arab Gulf) nations aren't exactly the first to be associated with psychedelia, thoug… Read More
Linda Thompson - Mudlark
Linda Thompson is best known as a singer and interpreter of someone else’s songs. A specific someone else: Richard Thompson, her ex-husband, with whom she made a few of the greatest Br… Read More
Derek And The Dominos - Anyday
Derek and The Dominos was a very short-lived band that only released one studio album in its entire career span, which only lasted just over a year (1970-1971). That album, "Layla and Other… Read More
Bettie Serveert - Ray Ray Rain
I was halfway through a menthol cigarette (blech!) when I heard the electric guitars of Bettie Serveert’s Peter Visser and lead singer Carol van Dyk through the open doors of Brooklyn… Read More
The Jayhawks - Live On German TV 1995
 Part 1Part 2With the roots music explosion of the last decade, it’s past time to reappraise The Jayhawks, one of the pioneer bands of the genre. By reissuing their late career re… Read More
Solstice - Sacred Run - Live 2023
English outfit Solstice have made a name for themselves as an act playing melodic progressive rock with strong leanings towards neo progressive in sound, classic 70's symphonic rock in expre… Read More
Vibravoid - Wake Up Before You Die
Every single note has the effect of LSD and Vibravoid bring LSD to all their shows – LSD, that’s a Lightshow Society Düsseldorf, who project a unique and mind blowing illumi… Read More
Tonic - Open Up Your Eyes
“If You Could Only See” was both the song that put Tonic on the map, and the one that put the bullet in their career.  If you’re over a certain age, you remember the p… Read More
Odetta Hartman - Goldilocks
Perfection or personality? When it comes to music there's only one option for Odetta Hartman, the ballet of chance will always win out over metronomic precision. For her, the joy of music is… Read More
The Lucy Nation - Alright
An enigma of late-'90s major label meddling and ultimate inaction, this difficult to find album is unfortunately not all on par with its one terrific song, 'Alright'. Featured on the Austin… Read More
The Bombay Royale - Mauja
The Bombay Royale are an Australian 11-piece musical powerhouse who have taken the themes and soundtracks from Bollywood films and have infused them with all the colour, production and energ… Read More
Betty Davis - Talkin' Trash
The sexual revolution of the 1960s grew louder in the next decade. Pop culture in the 1970s became sexier, signified by one of the biggest songs of 1973 being Marvin Gaye’s timeless od… Read More
Alunah - Psychedelic Expressway
Birmingham UK’s Alunah have followed a slow and steady ascension to the vanguard of the UK doom scene since their debut Call Of Avernusback in 2010. Alunah have since built a steady fa… Read More
Plainsong - I'll Fly Away
This, the latest in the series of Elektra reissues from Man In The Moon Records, is quite a strange album in that from the title you’d expect a concept album built around the legend of… Read More
Slift - Altitude Lake
Slift released their debut EP ‘Space Is The Key’ in June 2017 via Howlin Banana (France) and Exag’ Records (Belgium). Inspired by Alain Damasio’s sci-fi novels and Pi… Read More
Puta Volcano - Black Box
Puta Volcano started quite a few years ago. Would you like to talk a bit about your background?Anna Papathanasiou: Our common background involves 3 LPs and 1 EP. At the very beginning Alex P… Read More
Cream - We're Going Wrong - Live
I saw Cream in fall of 1968, October, Olympia Stadium in Detroit (the old Red Wings arena). The stage was set up in the middle of the arena, me and my friends were lucky to have seats in the… Read More
Jaala - Hard Hold
When she was recording her band’s debut album, Cosima Jaala leapt around the studio, whiskey-drunk and mostly naked, with a wildness that surprised even her. “It was a magical su… Read More
The Isley Brothers - It's Your Thing
"It's Your Thing" is a funk single by The Isley Brothers. Released in 1969, the anthem was an artistic response to Motown chief Berry Gordy's demanding hold on his artists after the Isleys l… Read More
Magic Fig - Goodbye Suzy
Wondrous, majestic, and fantastical, Magic Fig’s debut rarely feels of these times, and it’s all the better for it. As so many struggle with their day to day existence, trying to… Read More
Laura Marling - Devil's Spoke
After three months of shuttered concert venues, hearing Laura Marling’s voice eddy around the Union Chapel in north London is like being dosed with a vitamin I had been leaving out of… Read More
Deep Purple - Blind
Oddly enough, Deep Purple’s eponymous album is not the group’s debut, but rather their third effort, the last with the Mark I lineup which laid down so much for the future. By th… Read More
K's Choice - Mr. Freeze
K's Choice is a Belgian rock band from Antwerp, formed in the mid-1990s. The band's core members are siblings Sarah Bettens (lead vocals, guitar) and Gert Bettens (guitar, keyboard, vocals)… Read More
White Ring - Leprosy
Cult followers of the “witch house” movement will be familiar with industrial outfit White Ring, who are set to release their new album Gate Of Grief via Rocket Girl Records on J… Read More
The Lovely Eggs - Nothing/Everything
Walking through Lancaster on a sunny spring day, Holly Ross has a theory about her home town and its inhabitants. Once towering over the city was Lancaster Moor hospital, formerly the Lancas… Read More
Levitation Room - Warmth Of The Sun
East Los Angeles quartet Levitation Room’s floaty, cosmic songs are always a trip. Since forming nearly a decade ago, they’ve self-produced dizzying, otherworldly music that&rsqu… Read More
Bab L' Bluz - Imazighen
Bab L’ Bluz is a musical group consisting of four members of Moroccan-French origin. The quartet was formed in 2018 with the intention of paying tribute to the Gnawa culture, with the… Read More
Silly Sisters - Doffin' Mistress
Silly Sisters begins in the weaving mills of the Industrial Revolution, where we learn that the workers liked to stick it to the boss as much as we do today. “Doffin’ Mistre… Read More
Post Animal - Bolt From Above
This past Friday night, I caught up with the boys in Post Animal before they headlined night one of Chicago’s Psych Fest at The Hideout. Although the band was down one member, with thi… Read More
Sam Phillips - Strawberry Road
Speaking of her 1994 record, "Martinis and Bikinis," Los Angeles singer-songwriter Sam Phillips recently recalled an anecdote associated with one of the songs from that album--a track called… Read More
Delta Shade - Hollow
Hailing from the high desert, Delta Shade play hard rock with a fierce groove that provides the backbone to their soulful melodies. After starting in 2016 by members Chad Buchanan, Andrew La… Read More
Zap Mama - Sessions At West 54th 1997
Marie Daulne, the founder and fronting member of Zap Mama since the early 1990s, has lived a life that rivals Homer’s Odyssey. Filled with peril and triumph, globe-spanning quests, and… Read More
Rose Kemp - Violence
Q: The new album, Unholy Majesty, seems to be surrounded by much darker imagery than A Hand Full Of Hurricanes. Did you deliberately set out to make a heavier record this time?
Ro… Read More
Portishead - Glory Box
Formed in 1991 in Bristol, Portishead are considered one of the pioneers of trip hop music, although the band themselves have always fiercely disliked the term. Named after the nearby town o… Read More
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Y Control
Can a band build an entire career, a legacy even, on a handful of EPs and a boundless torrent of press? How many party dresses need to take a beer bath before the Yeah Yeah Yeahs drop the ro… Read More
The Fiery Furnaces - Navy Nurse
In a grand move to restore liner notes to their informative zenith, the inky little paper accompanying Gallowsbird's Bark offers a handful of (supposedly) autobiographical clues to The Fiery… Read More
The Left Banke - Pretty Ballerina
 Tom Finn, the last surviving member of the Left Banke’s classic lineup, died on June 27, 2020 after years of declining health. Finn’s death followed the recent passings of… Read More
Mean Mary - Iron Horse
A singer and songwriter with a gift for connecting with sounds of the past, Mean Mary (real name, Mary James) has gained a loyal following for music that draws on vintage country, bluegrass… Read More
The Hooters - Karla With A K
After two years of extensive touring in support of their first major label success, Nervous Night, the Philadelphia based group The Hooters returned to the studio to record One Way Home. Lik… Read More
Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories - Taffy
Guitar Girl Magazine: When did you begin playing guitar and who were some of your musical influences?Lisa Loeb: I started playing guitar when I was probably about 14 years old. I played brie… Read More
Free - Doing Their Thing 1970
Along with Cream and Led Zeppelin, Free stands as one of the most influential bands of the late 1960’s British blues boom. Formed in London during the spring of 1968, Free‘s orig… Read More
Meat Puppets - Armed And Stupid
Usually slotted as part of punk music’s “post-punk” development during the 1980s, the Meat Puppets have surfed atop the rise and fall of that movement, riding beyond it int… Read More

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