Schmilco, And The Wilco Paradox Rant by Noam Bronstein It doesn’t matter that ten years ago, most rock journos proclaimed Wilco to be [...] 2016/09/17 /// 0 Comments
Make It a Double: “I Long to See You” by Charles Lloyd & the Marvels (Blue Note, 2016) Album review by Neil Hobkirk Remember those Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups TV ads from the ‘70s? Varied in [...] 2016/06/12 /// 0 Comments
Double Rainbow: Yelena Eckemoff Quartet, “Everblue” (L&H, 2015); Mike Nock/Laurence Pike, “Beginning and End of Knowing” (FWM, 2015) Album review by Neil Hobkirk When is an ECM album not an ECM album? Two new releases from, respectively, [...] 2016/02/15 /// 0 Comments
Another convert to the Naxos Music Library Review by Peter Wilson The review article posted by Mark Morris on WOS dated 2014/07/06 finally convinced me [...] 2015/12/31 /// 2 Comments
Our Favourite Music Releases of 2015 From the writers at Wall of Sound – minus Tim and Mark, who are presently swamped. It’s been a [...] 2015/12/03 /// 0 Comments
The Most Pristine Folk Recording You’ve Ever Heard (free download from Chesky) Some of us received this Chesky Records email blast a few days ago, promoting a new record called From The [...] 2015/10/13 /// 4 Comments
Ryan Adams vs. Taylor Swift, And Why It Matters Suck it up, audiophile. Let’s face it, Taylor Swift deserves our respect. Even if her brand of pop [...] 2015/10/08 /// 3 Comments
Haunting the Metropolis: “Hand. Cannot. Erase.” by Steven Wilson (Kscope, 2015) Album review by Neil Hobkirk The drama unfolds in Metropolis, a major Montreal venue. After ninety minutes’ [...] 2015/08/31 /// 0 Comments
Ornette Coleman, avant garde jazz pioneer, dead at 85 Sad news this morning. Less than a year after his longtime bassist Charlie Haden passed away, jazz giant [...] 2015/06/11 /// 0 Comments
Science Fiction Double Feature: “Black Noise” (reissue) and “Transformation” by FM (2014, 2015; Convexe) Album review by Neil Hobkirk Part One: Maple Leaf Escape Craft For me, Part One of the FM story unfolded over [...] 2015/06/02 /// 0 Comments