Bombay Rickey
Bombay Rickey (Cowboys and Indian). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
Bombay Rickey (Cowboys and Indian). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
Grit & Grace (Sunnyside). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
Diatom Ribbons: Live at the Village Vanguard (Pyroclastic Records). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
Bad Reception. Review by Stacey Zering.
SCRAPS: (very) old and (almost) new solo guitar pieces. Review by Bob Pomeroy.
Stage and Screen (Palmetto Records). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
Blue Room: The 1979 VARA Studio Sessions in Holland (Jazz Detective). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
Black Holes Are Hard to Find (Nemu Records). Review by Carl F. Gauze.
Uptown on Mardi Gras Day (Troubadour Jass Records). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
Soul’d Out: The Complete Wattstax Collection overwhelms Carl F. Gauze with 12 music CDs reprising the 1972 benefit concert to rebuild Watts, Los Angeles, seven years after the riot.
Unstuck in Time: The Kurt Vonnegut Suite (Sunnyside Records). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
Close Connection (Sunnyside Records). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
More Touch (Pyroclastic Records). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
From a Window to a Screen (BellaJu Music). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
Bob Pomeroy muses on the music that is helping him through these troubled times.
Ancient Songs of Burlap Heroes (Pyroclastic Records). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
Musica de las Americas (Miel Music). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
View with a Room (Blue Note Records). Review by Carl F. Gauze.
Off Kilter (See Tao). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
Pathways (ABG Records). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
A young dancer becomes a legal genius in this fun and fast musical comedy.
Forgotten ’70s action film Fear Is the Key is as gritty as the faces of the men who populate it. Phil Bailey reviews the splashy new Blu-ray.
Coffin Joe returns in a comprehensive Blu-ray collection from Arrow Video, Inside the Mind of Coffin Joe.
Bob’s been looking for a replacement copy of the rare John Cale release Sabotage/Live (1979, Spy Records) since 1991. He still hasn’t found a copy at a reasonable price, but a random YouTube video allowed him to listen and reminisce.
Hidden gem and hallmark of second-generation martial arts film, 1978’s The Shaolin Plot manages to provide a glimpse of things to come. Charles DJ Deppner reviews Arrow Video’s pristine Blu-ray release, which gives this watershed masterpiece the prestige and polish it richly deserves.
The HawtThorns invite you to soar, with the premiere of “Zero Gravity.”
There’s nothing as humiliating as a cattle call. Unless it’s a cattle call in your undies.