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Love - Forever Changes (Rhino)
8 June 2008With the recent 2-CD reissue of Forever Changes the album continues to astound four decades on.
Fern Knight - Fern Knight (VHF)
29 April 2008Fern Knight is entrancing Renaissance fare with a psych-rock twist.
Bruce Haack - The Electric Lucifer (Omni)
7 July 2007One of the great outsider creations finally makes it to CD!
Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus Three with Johanna Kunin- World Cafe Live (Philadelphia) - Monday, March 26, 2007
1 April 2007Hearing “Kingdom of Love” and “Not Dark Yet” back-to-back were the highlights of the evening. I was absolutely mesmerized during both of them.
Khan Jamal Creative Arts Ensemble - Drumdance to the Motherland (Eremite)
27 December 2006This is an engrossing set of spacey free improvisation, as much psychedelia as jazz, as African as it is Philadelphian.
Goodbye, Arthur Lee (Love)
15 August 2006I wouldn’t want to have been his merchandize seller (who we saw being caned by a wobbling Lee after a Town Hall show a few years ago, for transgressions unknown!), or for that matter his drummer or even his towel boy or bartender or banker or drug buddy, but man, being his fan on these last few years’ concert nights felt better than anything.
Forever Changing: R.I.P. Arthur Lee (Love), 1945-2006
9 August 2006Last week, Arthur passed away, due to acute myeloid leukemia, in his birthplace of Memphis, Tennessee. Here, I offer my respect to one of music’s all-time greats.
Japanese Imports [Part II]: Boredom as Energy
6 April 2006This is basically what most good music is about, whether a classical symphony, a jazz excursion, a prog epic, a punk set, or a psychedelic trip (pop music is a different story altogether).
Japanese Imports [Part I]: Everything and the Kitchen Sink
31 March 2006There was no place that bridged—or rather, merged—the musical worlds of punk and prog/psych more expansively, imaginatively, and organically than Japan did in 1987-1992.
The Mars Volta - Scabdates (GSL/Universal)
8 December 2005A definite must-have for big fans or anyone who truly appreciates their live routine, but for those out there who prefer the less-hallucinatory side of THE MARS VOLTA, it might not be the best choice.
Jack Rabid’s Top 10
Week of May 4
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For Against – Shade Side, Sunny Side (Words on Music)
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Sloan – _Parallel Play _ (Yep Roc)
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The Replacements – deluxe reissues of their first four LPs (Twin/Tone/Ryko/Rhino)
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Death Cab For Cutie – Narrow Stairs (Atlantic)
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Willie Nelson – One Hell of a Ride box set (Legacy/SonyBMG)
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Black Watch – Icing the Snow Queen (Eskimo)
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The Effigies – Reside (Criminal IQ)
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Secret Shine – All of the Stars (Clairecords/Tonevendor)
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The Libertines – Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 (Libertines Music)
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The Wedding Present – El Rey (Manifesto)