Great_Albums

Great_Albums, 25 days ago to random

#CurrentSpins – #MaryTimony – Untame the Tiger (2024). #IndieRock guitarist/ singer-songwriter Timony hasn't cut a solo album in 19 years, remaining active in a gaggle of groups, including Ex Hex. Here, Timony shows herself as one of the best-kept secrets in rock.

The album combines power pop with sparse acoustic material, lyrically touching on grief (both her parents died during the making of the album) without sounding aggrieved. Ex-Fairport Convention Dave Mattacks drums on several tracks.

Great_Albums, 26 days ago to Beatles

Here is my review of Ken McNab's new book about the Beatles and rise of Beatlemania in 1963. Published today in PopMatters.

#PopMatters #Beatles #Beatlemania #KenMcNab #Books #BookReviews

https://www.popmatters.com/beatles-shake-it-up-ken-mcnab

Great_Albums, 27 days ago to random

#CurrentSpins - #TheLemonTwigs – A Dream is All We Know (2024). Long Island multi-instrumentalist brothers Brian and Michael D'Addario play an almost perfect facsimile of Beatles and Beach Boys-styled pop rock. This, their fifth album, refines these gestures with solid songwriting that often lives up to the brothers' inspirations. For those who miss Jellyfish or the Raspberries, The Lemon Twigs deliver uncomplicated confectionary for the ears. Sean Ono Lennon guests on one track.

Great_Albums, 30 days ago to random

My tribute article to the late recording artist and engineer #SteveAlbini, published today in PopMatters, Chicago, USA.

https://www.popmatters.com/why-steve-albini-mattered

Great_Albums, 1 month ago to random

RIP: The great Steve Albini.

Recording artist, studio owner, and recording engineer. His name and distinctive sound graced some of the all-time great albums in rock and alternative rock.... Pixies, Slint, Nirvana, the Breeders, PJ Harvey, Urge Overkill, and many more.

His outspoken defense of musical integrity and live performance in recording made him a crucial and uncompromising voice in an era of corporate consumerism and corruption in music.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/may/08/steve-albini-us-alt-rock-musician-and-producer-dies-aged-61

#SteveAlbini

Great_Albums, 1 month ago to jazz

My review of jazz artist Kamasi Washington's new album, Fearless Movement, published today in PopMatters.

#GreatJazzAlbums #Jazz #KamasiWashington #CurrentSpins #PopMatters

https://www.popmatters.com/kamasi-washington-fearless-movement-review

Great_Albums, 1 month ago to random

#CurrentSpins - #NeilYoung & Crazy Horse - Fuckin' Up (2024). Young's latest revision of the past is Fuckin' Up, an interpretation of nine of the ten songs from his and Crazy Horse's 1991 album Ragged Glory. Recorded live at Toronto's Rivoli Club in November 2023, the album finds Neil and company in fine, rambunctious form – gleefully powering through amiably sloppy renditions of the old songs.

Great_Albums, 1 month ago to random

Happy #RecordStoreDay ! My favourite haunt for vinyl is Retro-Pop in Sherbrooke, Quebec. Support your local bricks n mortar shops.... before they disappear and the world becomes one giant "Amzn".

Great_Albums, 1 month ago to Rush

Here is my feature article on the debut album by Rush, released 50 years ago, and the early years of the legendary Canadian rock band.

#Rush #Canadiana #RockMusic #ProgressiveRock #Prog

https://www.popmatters.com/rush-debut-album-at-50

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Great_Albums, 1 month ago to classicrock

Here is my feature article on the music of 70s rock legends Humble Pie.

#HumblePie #SteveMarriott #ClassicRock

https://www.classicrockhistory.com/top-10-humble-pie-albums/

Great_Albums, 1 month ago to classicrock

Newly discovered footage of Humble Pie performing in London in 1973... filmed for The Midnight Special and unseen until now. "I Don't Need No Doctor," with backup vocal group the Black Berries.

The best live footage of the late great Steve Marriott I've ever seen.

#HumblePie #SteveMarriott #RockMusic #ClassicRock

https://youtu.be/UJPVLywFd9I?si=kqh9LZ4IsixUUdf9

Great_Albums, 2 months ago (edited 1 month ago) to ethelcain

Here is my review of the intriguing new album by avant-pop artist Jane Weaver, published today in #PopMatters
https://www.popmatters.com/jane-weaver-love-constant-spectacle

#PickOfTheWeek #PopMusic #JaneWeaver #CurrentSpins

Great_Albums, 2 months ago to snowboarding

#Mountain - live in 1970, "Mississippi Queen" & "Theme from an Imaginary Western."

Leslie West plants his feet in one spot and commands the stage with concise lead guitar and thunderous vocals. Felix Pappalardi provides a mellower counterpoint as Corky Laing drums like the unsung powerhouse he was. Steve Knight looks almost bookish by contrast, but his keyboard lines fit right in. Mountain belongs up there with Cream, Free, Zeppelin and the other greats of that era.

https://youtu.be/GHtYxLPRFLc?feature=shared

Great_Albums, 2 months ago to Rush

I'm working on a feature article about the 50th anniversary of the debut album by Rush. If you're fan and you've never heard some of the awesome live demos of songs they wrote but left off the album, check out "Garden Road" from 1974.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PP2MagWkR6o

#Rush

Great_Albums, 2 months ago (edited 1 month ago) to Shoegaze

Here is my review of Ride's Interplay, the latest album by the reunited British shoegaze band. Published today in PopMatters:

https://www.popmatters.com/ride-interplay-music-review

#RideBand #Shoegaze #Music #PickOfTheWeek
#PopMatters #CurrentSpins

Great_Albums, 2 months ago (edited 1 month ago) to music

Here is my review of Audio Vertigo, the new album by the British band Elbow. Published today in PopMatters.

Strong contender for my list of the year's best.

https://www.popmatters.com/elbow-audio-vertigo-review

#Elbow #GuyGarvey #Music #PickOfTheWeek #PopMatters #CurrentSpins

Great_Albums, 2 months ago to SteelyDan

Here is my feature article on Steely Dan's album Pretzel Logic, published today in PopMatters.

https://www.popmatters.com/steely-dan-pretzel-logic-atr50

#SteelyDan #PopMatters #GreatAlbums