Firewater: The Golden Hour - PopMatters Music Review
The Golden Hour PopMatters just published my review of the new Firewater CD. This record I liked. I haven’t played it since I reviewed it but I’m pretty sure that the next time it gets slotted into the iMac I’ll enjoy it. It is a fine record and well worth the purchase. As usual an [...]
Lissa Schneckenburger: Song - PopMatters Review
Another fun little Short Take that I submitted to PopMatters. An excerpt below and the direct link after that.
Lissa Schneckenburger’s Song is a cheerful array of old school folk tunes with the emphasis on the fiddle and quality vocal performance—a mixture of self-composed work and traditional songs from the New England area of [...]
Various Artists: Beautiful Escape… Is Coming Right Along PopMatters Review
Beautiful Escape… Is Comping Right Along One of my Short Take reviews was published on PopMatters.com today. It is short and “sweet”. An excerpt is below and the link to the full review is beneath that. These short reviews are fun to do.
The Posies were a power-pop outfit from Washington State that didn’t [...]
Hanne Hukkelberg - Rykestrasse 68
One of the blogs that I go to every once in a while is 3hive. This is an excellent site if you are looking for new music. This tireless team trawl t’Internet looking for freely available mp3s. This site and Last.FM I just could not live without. My most recent find on 3hive is Hanne [...]
REM Supernatural Superserious Quite Good
REM are guests at this year’s SXSW festival in Austin Texas and played to a packed out but cold (by the looks of it) Stubbs BBQ. It appears that they went down really well. At least the reviews are quite good. If the new material that I have heard from their forthcoming record is anything [...]








