Do you remember your first?
When I look at my extensive music collection, which has evolved over decades and incorporates everything from vinyl and cassettes to cds and mp3s, I’m […]
Reviews
Makunouchi Bento – Let’s go for a Swimé.
Makunouchi Bento is Felix Petrescu (a/k/a Waka X) and Valentin Toma (a/k/a Qewza). I’ve seen this Romanian duo’s music described (by themselves and/or others) as […]
James: Young boys melt into men.
The fresh energy of the “Village Fire” EP by James jumps out of speakers. You likely know James more polished and, at times, commercial sound […]
The Replacements: Hootenanny, but not a hootenanny.
The Replacements came to Buffalo on a cold night in 1984 during the tour for their album “Let It Be.” But the flyers played off […]
Spoons: This nova won’t burn out.
I first became familiar with Spoons because, although I lived in the US, I often listened to the great radio station CFNY out of Toronto […]
Carbon/Silicon: That Mick Jones sure stays busy.
Since his time playing in THE greatest band of all time early in his career, guitarist Mick Jones has stayed very busy with many varied […]
Homage to Pillows & Prayers
The cover of the Matador sampler on the left appears to be a nice little homage to the famous Pillows & Prayers compilation on the right (issued […]
Jim Carroll: “All my friends are dead dead dead!”
A few years ago (OK…quite a few years ago) I was visiting NYC. It was a beautiful and sunny Spring Monday and I wandered around […]
Lee “Scratch” Perry
I was really excited to catch the legend LSP on his tour earlier this year and got right up front. Behold… The band brought out an […]
Bad Bat Records
I took some time to poke around the Bad Bat Records catalog today and, for no reason I can really fathom, decided to express my impressions in […]