Disappearer
A tribute to Low and a whole lot of nervous energy join forces to make a memorable evening of music for Julius C. Lacking.
Month: August 2023
Grand Valley – Issue 001
The premiere issue of our printed edition, focused on the music and culture of Western Colorado's Grand Valley. Available free at Triple Play Records in downtown Grand Junction.
Sara Caswell
The Way To You (Anzic Records). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
The Budos Band
Frontier’s Edge (Diamond West). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
Garage Sale Vinyl: Nick Gilder
This week, Christopher Long reflects fondly on his misfit tweenage daze, as he discovers a reasonably healthy used vinyl copy of City Nights, the 1978 sophomore set from Canadian pop-rock kingpin, Nick Gilder — for just six bucks!
Joe Bonamassa
Joe Bonamassa brings his blues-rock extravaganza to historic Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colorado, where Michelle Wilson is thrilled to review a bucket-list show.
Diamanda Galas
Broken Gargoyles (Intravenal Sound Operations). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
Silversun Pickups
“I’m the Man” (New Machine Recordings). Review by Stacey Zering.
Blood Money: Four Western Classics Vol. 2
The second volume of Arrow Video’s Blood Money collection unleashes four more tales of revenge in the old West. Phil Bailey reviews.
Million Dollar Quartet
Return to that magical night in 1956 when five of the top rock and rollers met up at Sun Records for the very last time. Carl F. Gauze reviews Million Dollar Quartet at Orlando Shakes.
Garage Sale Vinyl: Nancy Sinatra
This week, Christopher Long once again gets hoodwinked by his principal “dealer.” As a result, he scores a fabulous fix —an original vinyl pressing of Nancy’s Greatest Hits, the 1970 compilation LP from Nancy Sinatra — for just six bucks!
Invaluable: The True Story of an Epic Artist
Here’s a fascinating documentary on Tom Sullivan and his oeuvre of low budget horror films that remade the genre in the 1980s. Carl F. Gauze reviews Invaluable: The True Story of an Epic Artist.
John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers
Live in 1967: Volume Three (Forty Below Records). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
Buselli-Wallarab Jazz Orchestra
The Gennett Suite (Patois Records). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
Chuck Owen and the WDR Big Band with Sara Caswell
Renderings (Summit/MAMA Records). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
This Must Be The Place
That fancy menswear shop? It used to be the home of punk rock on the Bowery. Jesse Rifkin walks us through NYC neighborhoods, reconstructing their now long-gone music scenes and thriving night life in This Must Be The Place: Music, Community and Vanished Spaces in New York City.
Beth Bombara
It All Goes Up (Black Mesa Records). Review by Christopher Long.
Garage Sale Vinyl: Stevie Wonder
This week Christopher Long ventures into a proper used record outlet and discovers a long-pursued treasure: a rather punished original LP pressing of Innervisions, the 1973 classic from Stevie Wonder, for just $6.
Bush Tetras
They Live in My Head (Wharf Cat Records). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
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