0 July 1, 2022 Me, The Mob And The Music: One Helluva Ride With Tommy James And The Shondells, By Tommy James With Martin Fitzpatrick A 19-year-old singer named Tommy Jackson, frontman for The Shondells, of Niles Michigan, finds himself in...
0 June 27, 2022 Psych Pop Gems And Charming Waltzes: Rogers and Butler’s Brighter Day “Six feet apart or six feet underground, the choice is yours to make,” sings Edward Rogers...
0 June 23, 2022 Crackling with Brio and Intelligence – “VS” by The Pop Group’s Mark Stewart (and a Dozen Co-Conspirators) With art, sometimes it just all comes down to ‘What the fuck?’ Situations arise in the...
0 June 12, 2022 Raging with Uncompromise – Shilpa Ray’s Astonishing “Portrait of a Lady” One day in the fall of 2009, after some fifteen years plus or minus spent chasing...
0 May 14, 2022 TRIPTYCH INTO DARKNESS – DON’T GET LEMON “Hyper Hollow Heaven” / SUBURBAN SPELL “Split Levels” / CINEMASCOPE “A Crack on the Wall” DON’T GET LEMON “Hyper Hollow Heaven” (à La Carte) Have to admit that, like pretty much...
0 April 21, 2022 Couplets Bounding Along with a Puckish Aplomb (and other delights) – Simon Love’s “Love, Sex and Death etc.” Whatever level of lasting insight attainable to one engaged in this music-writing game – if any...
0 March 30, 2022 LEST WE FORGET Vol. 1 – Neutrals “Kebab Disco” / David Heatley “Life Our Own Way” / Charming Disaster “Our Lady of Radium” “Not another column, Stereo Embers!” Yes, we can hear you and we empathize but here’s...
0 March 11, 2022 Immortality, Grace, Craft – The Monochrome Set Return with “Allhallowtide” How long has it been? Too long? Not long enough? Well, we tend to think that...
0 February 24, 2022 TRIPTYCH INTO DARKNESS – PALAIS IDEAL “Negative Space” / The Sea at Midnight “Oceans” EP / Dry Wedding “Sway” PALAIS IDEAL “Negative Space” (Cold Transmission) Pretty much every aspect of what Palais Ideal have going...
0 February 14, 2022 Invigorating, Rollicking And Full Of Life: The Rave-Ups’ Tomorrow Let’s talk about time. Because, let’s face it, when it comes to the new Rave-Ups album,...