Older Music & Book Reviews

Pop Matters
Various Artists, Rogue's Gallery
Luna, The Best Of Luna and Lunafied
Norfolk and Western, A Gilded Age
Tengir-Too, Music of Central Asia, Volume 1: Mountain Music of Kyrgyzstan
Quasi, When The Going Gets Dark
Tortoise and Bonnie "Prince" Billy, The Brave and the Bold
Hall Ranaldo Hooker, Oasis of Whispers
Konono No. 1, Congotronics

Independent Weekly Archive
Includes Preview Mode: Surveying National Releases Column; Five Degrees Below Zero column; articles on John Cohen photo exhibit, Greg Osby, Pavement, Modest Mouse, Quasi, Unwound, Broadside Magazine Smithsonian Folkways boxset, and various other CD releases and concert previews.

King Sunny Ade, Seven Degrees North CD Review, Salon

Trying On New Names to Plumb the Mystery of 'I', New York Times (PDF)

Homemade Psychedelia For Modern Times: Talking Music with Olivia Tremor Control, NYTimes.com

That Devil Music: Flowers In the Dustbin: The Rise of Rock and Roll, 1947-1977 by James Miller, Newsday (PDF)

The Voices of Popular Music: Visions of Jazz: The First Century by Gary Giddens and Grown Up All Wrong: 75 Great Rock and Pop Artists From Vaudeville to Techno by Robert Christgau, Newsday (PDF)

Corresponding With the Past: Letters of the Century: America 1900-1999 edited by Lisa Grunwald and Stephen J. Adler, Newsday (PDF)

The Other Hoboken Singer With Mob Ties: Making the Wiseguys Weep: The Jimmy Roselli Story by David Evanier, Newsday (PDF)

Hawaii's History, By Chapter and Verse: The Folding Cliffs: A Narrative by W. S. Merwin, Newsday (PDF)

Luna, The Days of Our Nights CD Review, Spectator (PDF)

They All Laughed When I Sat Down At the Piano...: Cooper-Moore, Jazziz (PDF)

Of Jazz and Self: Living With Music: Ralph Ellison's Jazz Writings edited by Robert G. O'Meally and If You Can't Be Free, Be a Mystery: In Search of Billie Holiday by Farah Jasmine Griffin, Jazziz (PDF)

Intersections Ahead: Future Jazz by Howard Mandel, Jazziz (PDF)

Supergenerous, Supergenerous CD Review, Jazziz

Bill Cole's Untempered Ensemble, Live in Greenfield CD Review, Jazziz

Michael Brecker, Nearness of You: The Ballad Book CD Review, Jazziz (PDF)

Rock and Roll Radio Is For Kids: Hot Chocolate With 'Greasy Kid Stuff', Citysearch New York

Various Artists, At Home With the Groove Box CD Review, VH1.com (PDF)

William Parker, Mayor of Punkville and Painter's Spring CD Reviews, VH1.com (PDF)

Fela Kuti, Coffin for Head of State/Unknown Soldier CD Reviews, VH1.com (PDF)

Patti Smith's Punk Improvisations at Music Critic's Memorial, Sonicnet (PDF)

Lucinda Williams, Pete Seeger Sing Praises of Folkways Records, Sonicnet (PDF)