Merl Saunders and Jerry Garcia
Keystone Companions: The Complete 1973 Fantasy Recordings (Fantasy). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Keystone Companions: The Complete 1973 Fantasy Recordings (Fantasy). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Dick’s Picks 32, 33, 34 (Grateful Dead Productions). Review by James Mann.
Days of Sun and Grass (Mother Hips Records). Review by James Mann.
Singles (Bananastan). Review by James Mann.
Reason & Rhyme (Sugar Hill Records). Review by James Mann.
Songs of the Grateful Dead (Woodstock). Review by James Mann.
Another inside Tell All about the Rolling Stones, the Grateful Dead, and the deadly Altamont Concert told by road manager Sam Cutler.
Truce Opium (Emergency Umbrella). Review by Michael Crown.
Keep Your Powder Dry (Fat Man). Review by James Mann.
Light Poles and Pines (Seany). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Brave New World (In Music We Trust). Review by Tim Wardyn.
Ween dominates Orlando with a marathon set! Phillip Haire prostrates himself at the altar of brothers Dean and Gene.
Make Me Wiser (Dirt Road). Review by Tim Wardyn.
Rule #3 (Submergence). Review by Aaron Shaul.
Drag It Up (New West). Review by Jen Cray.
Just how can you keep your drum patterns fresh? Gail Worley speaks to master rhythm chef Stephen Perkins about that and cooking with Tommy Lee, in this second part of her two-part interview.
Cosmic Trigger (self-released). Review by Stein Haukland.
Ohio Grown (self-released). Review by Stein Haukland.
Wormwood (iMusic). Review by Stein Haukland.
Phoenix EP (Birdman). Review by Jason Michelitch.
Judy Craddock has a pulled pork sandwich after Colby Acuff’s set, not missing a beat of Midland’s wild west tour stop. Grand Junction, Colorado, gets “lucky sometimes.”
The granddaddy of old dark house mysteries, The Bat (1926) creeps onto Blu-ray from Undercrank Productions.
The Shadow Boxing, a neglected part of the Chinese Hopping Vampire cycle, returns on a spooky Blu-ray from 88 Films.
Daniel Rachel gives us a comprehensive account of the 2 Tone Records label and the innovative ska bands who fueled the movement in Too Much Too Young, the 2 Tone Records Story: Rude Boys, Racism, and the Soundtrack of a Generation.
Our Ancestors Swam to Shore (Free Dirt / PM Press). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
Jason Vorhees is back in 2009’s soft reboot of Friday the 13th, and it is time for a re-evaluation of the most recent film in the long running franchise.
Squeeze and Boy George dazzle in Clearwater, Florida, as Michelle Wilson ticks two off her Bucket List.