Two critically revered female acts this week – Dorset’s PJ Harvey and Japanese-born Mitski. They both feature unwieldy album titles, and records are mellower than their usual fare. Enjoy! Mitski The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We 2023, 8/10Mitski…
Before he became Patti Smith’s lead guitarist, Lenny Kaye compiled the 2 album set, Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era. Released in 1972, the two-LP set covered American garage rock and psychedelia from the years 1965-1968 and was…
There were a lot of 18/20s in last week’s quiz, but a couple of contestants made it to 20/20 – NostalgicItalian and Eclectic Music Lover – with the latter having the fastest time. This week’s challenge is to link adjectives…
Elton John became a superstar in the early 1970s. But to my mind, he was more of a singles artist than an album artist. He released a series of irresistible singles, incorporating glam rock and Americana into his piano-based pop.…
James Vernon Taylor became the figurehead of the early 1970s singer-songwriter movement. He appeared on the cover of Time magazine with the headline “the face of the new rock”, where he was compared to Heathcliff and to a “cowboy Jesus”.…
Welcome back to this week’s quiz. I had to prepare this post in advance as I’m on holiday, so at the time of writing it wasn’t clear who won last week. This week, your challenge is to link song titles…
It’s challenging to write about Canadian sisters Kate & Anna McGarrigle without discussing their family connections. The nature of this B-side makes it impossible. Kate McGarrigle was married to singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright III, known for songs like ‘Dead Skunk’. The…
Before he became Patti Smith’s lead guitarist, Lenny Kaye compiled the 2 album set, Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era. Released in 1972, the two-LP set covered American garage rock and psychedelia from the years 1965-1968 and was…
Another week, another quiz. The defender of the crown this week is JB Robichaud from , who scored 27/28 in last week’s albums by decade quiz. This week your challenge is to link songs to badly drawn renderings of the…
Just over two years ago, I reviewed new releases by Cleo Sol, Squid, and XTC’s Andy Partridge. Coincidentally, Squid and Cleo Sol just released new albums. To complete the symmetry, I realised that I missed Partridge’s 2022 EP the first…
