Florence + The Machine — Dance Fever
I generally don’t get very excited about new releases. Sometimes I’ll check out something new by an artist close to when it’s released, sometimes I won’t – depends on my mood and what I’m...
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The Fleshtones – Face of the Screaming Werewolf
As I have previously gushed, The Fleshtones have been key to my listening pleasure for something like 30 years now. They keep on putting out new records, and I keep on buying them. This...
Fanny – Live on Beat-Club ’71-’72
As big a fan of Fanny as I am, I think that, like a lot of bands of that time, their records don’t fully capture the energy of their live performances. Luckily, there’s a...
Faces – Had Me A Real Good Time
As I’ve already documented, I’m a huge fan of the Faces, and absolutely the only thing wrong with them is that they made so few records. Official studio albums – there are but four....
The English Beat – Wha’ppen?
So after falling in love with “I Just Can’t Stop It,” I decided to take (not much of) a chance on this re-release of “Wha’ppen?” and truthfully, it’s even more to my taste, the...
The English Beat – I Just Can’t Stop It
How did it come to be that I never really got into much two-tone or ska? I have only a handful of ska records, most acquired within the past few years. There was a...
Various Artists – Eccentric Deep Soul
It’s funny that we commonly look down on collections, compared to works by single artists, and it’s true that they’re often a mess. K-Tel collections are just anything they could get a license to...
Various Artists – Eccentric Northern Soul
Here in the US, we were deprived of the phenomenon known as Northern Soul. It wasn’t even a phrase I was familiar with until I started reading about Soft Cell’s “Tainted Love” as being...
Willie Dixon – Catalyst
What can I possibly say about Willie Dixon, one of the greatest blues writers and performers of all time? Other artists made such great performances of his songs that a 1990 Chess box set...
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