by Sean Passmore | Oct 14, 2017 | Album of the Week
Dave Davies is rock royalty, full stop. Not only is he credited with single-handedly creating distortion for rock n roll guitar by taking a razor blade to the now legendary green amp, he was a key member of England’s first and most famous sibling rivalry band, The...
by Sean Passmore | Oct 11, 2017 | Album of the Week
Recorded and produced in Chicago by Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy at his hometown recording studio The Loft, Kacy & Clayton’s latest is very much a swinging full band affair, seeing the millennial acoustic folk duo from rural Wood Mountain, Saskatchewan beefed up this time...
by Sean Passmore | Oct 6, 2017 | Album of the Week
27-year-old Aldous Harding’s latest album Party, contrary to what it’s title might suggest, is a refreshingly poignant acoustic reprieve from most of the ear crushing computer-generated electronic noise and mind-numbing beats that make up much of the soundtrack to the...
by Sean Passmore | Oct 4, 2017 | Album of the Week
Ringo Starr has consistently been making slickly produced superb sounding rock n roll records for some 25 years now from his 1992 comeback album Time Takes Time to his latest. What started out as an intended country album to be recorded and produced in Nashville by...
by Sean Passmore | Sep 30, 2017 | Album of the Week
As a child growing up in war torn Mali of the early 1960’s, master guitar player Ibrahim Ag Alhabib built his very first guitar using nothing more than a tin can, stick and bicycle wire. By age 19 he had migrated to Algeria and in 1979 assembled the players who were...
by Sean Passmore | Sep 23, 2017 | Album of the Week
Formed in Reading, Berkshire, England in the fall of 1989, Slowdive, named after a Siouxsie and the Banshees song, were so brutally butchered and universally reviled by the mean spirited British music press of the day that the band packed it in and called it quits...
