Pop Injection

It’s a story as old as time (and rock & roll) itself — band makes great debut album, then has to come up with a follow-up, and doesn’t do quite as good a job. While The Kids Are the Same,…

JOE JACKSON - CHORUS TV (1980)

On the strength of the release of the third LP “Beat Crazy“, Joe Jackson performed live on Chorus, the famous french TV show in 1980. Nine songs pulled out from the first three albums plus a…

You know, Watergate whistle blower and all around hero for our time John Dean wrote a book about the Bush administration and its defenders recently called Conservatives Without Conscience.

Well, I just read a review of a music movie that’s gonna…

Main stream press has picked up the ball on this group that wowed the crowd at SXSW. Read Tony Sachs article about them here.

“How We Survive”, Grand Atlantic’s new album mixed by Magoo (Midnight Oil, An Horse, Regurgitator) set for release…

The Aussie band Grand Atlantic is back, set to release the followup to their excellent 2007 debut disc This is Grand Atlantic in June on Laughing Outlaw Records, but you can get the first single right now. Titled “She’s a…

From 1971, please enjoy pretty much my all-time favorite Rolling Stones cover of a Chuck Berry song — a fabulous live version of “Let It Rock.”

This was the b-side of the Brit EP version of “Brown Sugar”; it also appeared…

“Tell It To The Sun” is the full-length debut album from New Zealand’s Calico Brothers, who made quite a splash on the indie jangle-pop scene with their 2008 EP, “God Left Town”. The band is true to its name -…

The Grip Weeds showed on their debut album that they were a powerhouse pop-psyche band extraordinaire who write insanely gripping melodic nuggets, and they multiply that gift on their followup. Making musical analogies is an overused descriptive technique, but it…

On return from its first American northern round, HYPNO5E reconsiders the front of the scene with its side project acoustic, A BACKWARD GLANCE ON A TRAVEL ROAD.

“True testimony of the melody range of a group more accustomed to transforming a…

Neko Case — Middle Cyclone (Anti)

While a few folks are commenting that Neko Case is straying further from her country roots, I think that this new album is just more evidence that Case has become a genre unto herself. To call…