CREEM Magazine Returns
The iconic rock and roll magazine from the 1960s is back and just as relevant and snotty as ever.
The iconic rock and roll magazine from the 1960s is back and just as relevant and snotty as ever.
Amy Yates Wuelfing collects stories from the professional drinkers who hung out at John and Peter’s in New Hope, Pennsylvania, in Still Drinkin’ & Smokin’ Rockin’ & Rollin’. Carl F. Gauze reviews.
Rising musician Starberry blends rock and roll and post-punk for a refreshing punch that sticks around. Elijah McDaniel talks with the New Jersey artist about creativity, falsettos, and grinding the internet.
Rewrite The Words Again (Unelectric Arts). Review by Carl F. Gauze.
Can rock and roll break the color barrier in 1950s Tennessee? Carl F. Gauze reviews.
Telescope (Illusion Tournet Records). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
Sun Via (Underground Thieves LLC). Review by Jeremy Glazier.
Here’s your chance to color inside the lines while reading the story of an artist who never stayed inside the lines, G.G. Allin.
Six women sing 60 or so songs from the 60’s.
Mad Lad A Live Tribute to Chuck Berry (BMG). Review by Joe Frietze.
Straightjacket (Ruf Records). Review by Jeremy Glazier.
A low-level rock and roll journalist sets out to do a fluff piece on a washed-up band and ends up discovering he has a family.
Robyn Hitchcock (Yep Roc). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
Detroit in the 1960’s was a hard city going through hard times. The music that come out of Detroit was incubated at the Grande Ballroom. Wayne Kramer (MC5), Ted Nugent and many others remember the wild times.
Adventure (Good Charamel Records). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
Geezër (Geezër). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Blue Healer (Fat Possum Records). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Body builder Thor tries and ultimately falls short in this rock and roll documentary.
Wheel of Talent (Yep Roc Records). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Twenty years of hard rocking leads to a nice home in the suburbs, a stable marriage and a beautiful daughter.
This fall, Ani DiFranco brought new Righteous Babe labelmate Kristen Ford to Iowa City, where Jeremy Glazier enjoyed an incredible evening of artistry.
This week Christopher Long grabs a bag of bargain vinyl from a flea market in Mount Dora, Florida — including You’re Never Alone with a Schizophrenic, the classic 1979 LP from Ian Hunter.
Bob Pomeroy gets into four Radio Rarities from producer Zev Feldman for Record Store Day with great jazz recordings from Wes Montgomery, Les McCann, Cal Tjader, and Ahmad Jamal.
Bob Pomeroy digs into Un “Sung Stories” (1986, Liberation Hall), Blasters’ frontman Phil Alvin’s American Roots collaboration with Sun Ra and his Arkestra, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, and New Orleans saxman Lee Allen.
Roi J. Tamkin reviews A Darker Shade of Noir, fifteen new stories from women writers completely familiar with the horrors of owning a body in a patriarchal society, edited by Joyce Carol Oates.
Mandatory: The Best of The Blasters (Liberation Hall). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
Feeling funky this week, Christopher Long gets his groove on while discovering a well-cared-for used vinyl copy of one of his all-time R&B faves: Ice Cream Castle, the classic 1984 LP from The Time, for just a couple of bucks.
During AFI Fest 2023, Lily and Generoso interviewed director Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir, whose impressive debut feature, City of Wind, carefully examines the juxtaposition between the identity of place and tradition against the powers of modernity in contemporary Mongolia.
Juliana Hatfield Sings ELO (American Laundromat Records). Review by Laura Pontillo.