eMusic Archives: November 2007
Music Out Of Place: Staubgold …
"Music out of place" is the motto of the Staubgold label, and it couldn't… more »
2007 Rewind: Looking Back, Loo…
The revolution didn't come again this year. It's not as if we didn't wish… more »
Critical Condition Band, Diver…
The new generation of go-go mixes styles and turns the local party global… more »
Ian Rankin, The Naming of the …
An exciting police procedural brings Edinburgh to life. James Gale's gruf… more »
The Keys To Enlightenment: The…
G.I. Gurdjieff was one of the most important spiritual figures of the 20t… more »
The Hot, Cool, Gospel, Blues P…
Recently I was re-reading (with my University of Kansas students) Hampton… more »
Vary Us and Very Us
One. The primest number, especially when it comes to a song. Though I do … more »
Menahan Street Band, Make the …
Perhaps you thought, as I did initially, that "Roc Boys," Jay-Z… more »
From The Vault: Luxuria’…
Weirdness is a powerful lure. It seems human curiosity cannot help but be… more »
2007 Rewind: The Year in Hip-H…
"There's a world outside of the 'hood and I want you to see it," Dizzee R… more »
The Eeephing Good Music of Har…
"You say a white boy can't know the blues," Harmonica Frank Floyd declare… more »
Humpback Whales, Songs of the …
Frank Watlington made this record while he was working for the US Navy of… more »
The Peter Evans Quartet, The P…
I recently received an email from saxophonist, Evan Parker, extolling the… more »
Food for Thought
These days, simply everyone — from Ratatouille's titular rodent… more »
Max Brooks, World War Z…
An oral history of the war against the zombies. World War Z by Max Brooks… more »
The Best Blues On Document Rec…
Nobody could ever accuse Austrian painter Johnny Parth of lacking ambitio… more »
Helen Love, Radio Hits 3…
By 2002, when this came out, Helen Love had moved on from name-checking J… more »
Carolyn Mark, Nothing Is Free…
If you've ever wondered how Jean Shepard or Loretta Lynn might have s… more »
From The Vault: Everything…
Looking back on a classic album. It was the Boo Radleys'unkind fate to be… more »
Max Brooks, The Zombie Surviva…
A thorough handbook for how to avoid having the living dead chomp on your… more »
M.C. Records Keeps It Real
Woe unto anyone who tries to start a purist blues label in this day and a… more »
Black Flag and All That
The recent publication of Joe Carducci's moving and fascinating Enter Nao… more »
Blues Piano
In blues, piano has rarely been a dominant instrument; guitar and, more r… more »
Blondie, No Exit
Reconvening after a generation of acrimony, illness and musical change al… more »