Album Reviews

Tomás Doncker

Having sprung from New York’s No Wave movement that swept downtown in the ’70s and ’80s, Tomás Doncker cut his teeth as a guitarist with genre-bending acts such as Defunkt … Read more

DM3

Hailed Down Under as on the cutting edge of Australia’s New Wave and Power Pop scene as it emerged in the 1990s, DM3 took an unabashedly enthusiastic approach to their … Read more

John Jorgenson

Spread across three discs and 40 tracks, John Jorgenson’s limited edition opus, Divertuoso, is neither a compilation nor an anthology, but rather three brand new albums compiled in box set form, … Read more

The Cactus Blossoms

The sibling harmonies of The Cactus Blossoms are often compared to the Everly Brothers. With good reason– Jack Torrey and Page Burkum are brothers from Minneapolis, who definitely conjure the … Read more

Peter Cooper

I have long admired Eric Taylor’s music.  In fact, these are my words in this same magazine in 2008: “Let’s establish this now. Eric Taylor is not only one of … Read more

Eva Cassidy

Eva Cassidy’s Nightbird is 2 CD live album recorded in 1996 at the Blues Alley jazz club. The recordings have been remastered to such a crispness that it sounds as … Read more

Steve Howell & The Mighty Men

This is a 10-track album of covers, and it’s none the worse for that. Tracks include Jesse ‘Baby Face’ Thomas’s “Another Friend Like Me,” lifted (and credited) from the playing … Read more

Roger Waters

Regardless of one’s feelings about Roger Waters’ role in the break-up of Pink Floyd, or his controversial comments about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it’s hard not to admire his commitment to … Read more

Spuyten Duyvil

What is Spuyten Duyvil (pronounced SPITE-en DIE-vul)? It’s an upper middle class neighborhood of the Bronx, NYC, tucked between the Harlem and Hudson Rivers. It is named after Spuyten Duyvil … Read more