New Hymn To Freedom (The Leaf Label Ltd). Review by James Mann.
Compass (Nonplace). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Star Stuff (Company Records). Review by James Mann.
Impredecible (World Village). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
III (Glitterbeat). Review by James Mann.
Astral Planes Drifter (Rainbow Pyramid). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Heaven’s End/ Fade Out/ The World In Your Eyes/ A Gilded Eternity (Reactor/Revolver). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Heaven’s End/ Fade Out/ The World In Your Eyes/ A Gilded Eternity (Reactor/Revolver). Review by Matthew Moyer.
The Lost Tapes (Spoon/Mute). Review by James Mann.
Antelope Freeway/Equinox Express Elevator (Impulse! ). Review by James Mann.
Bokoboko (Nonplace Records). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Bardo Pond (Fire ). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Secret Rhythms 4 (Nonplace Records). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Adam Pierce, head mouseketeer in the rhythm-heavy, fuzz-laden collective known as Mice Parade, chats with Ink 19 about his process — and lack thereof.
Hawkwind Triad (Neurot). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Fans of cutting-edge electronic music most likely have Michael Rother to thank. Rother was one of the prime movers in a German music scene, dubbed krautrock, that still sets the standard for exciting, weird, and groovy music. Ink 19 had the pleasure of chatting with Rother, who seems as comfortable with creating new music as he is with being a careful archivist of the music and legacy of his previous bands.
Seven Days Now (CSSR). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Primary Colours (Beggars/XL Records). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Three-hour documentary on DVD about the German electronic music band, their influences, contemporaries, and followers. Sean Slone gets lost on the Trans-Europe Express.
Matthew Moyer swoons over the voices inside the heads of The Legendary Pink Dots.
Two men play 8 characters, and a staff of stage hand ghosts build a campy comedy of British faded nobility banished to the moorlands for the crimes of poverty and aristocracy.
Get Your Groove! (American Showplace Music). Review by Michelle Wilson.
Let’s visit an America attacked by birds that peck us to death at high tide. Not sure how things are going in Phoenix.
Basso-tenor Dustin Cunningham hits the low notes in this very masculine evening of cabaret.
The Eclipse Sessions (New West Records). Review by James Mann.
Horrors of Malformed Men begs for a Midnight Movie release.
After the Salem Witch trials, the pain continued for years to come.
Soulfire Live! (Wicked Cool Records). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
New Wave Rockers Midge Ure and Paul Young brought their co-headlining tour to Orlando, and Michelle Wilson was there to enjoy two of her favorites from the ’80s.
High Water I (Eagle Rock Entertainment). Review by Jeremy Glazier.