Spin Cycle

The Crow Calls and You WILL Listen

May 15, 2014 | Dave Thompson | 0

It steals in softly, slowly, almost unnoticed, like the creaking of an old rocker, or branches against the roof. A voice as old as darkness, instrumentation that could have been taped any time in the last hundred years. I heard … ►

Weird Scenes Inside the 100 Acre Woods – Crystal Jacqueline, Icarus Peel and the Honey Pot full of Wonder

May 13, 2014 | Dave Thompson | 0

There was a time… it was a while back, admittedly, and probably most people who might remember it are now so old they don’t remember much of anything any longer… but there was a time when debut albums were something … ►

Is that a Dodo in your Pocket, or are you just Mega Glad to see me? Catching up with Psych’s most legendary flightless bird.

May 7, 2014 | Dave Thompson | 0

You may not have noticed (although if you are a regular Goldmine reader, you will have), but the taste for boutique labels that was ignited a few years ago by Fruits de Mer is in no way confined to our … ►

The Great Lost Larry Wallis Album or, It Ain’t Stiff, But It’s Still Worth a F*ck…

April 27, 2014 | Dave Thompson | 0

If you know anything about Stiff Records, the first great maverick Indy label of the punk-era British 1970s, you’ll know Larry Wallis. Author of one of the finest singles in that label’s entire canon, 1977’s “Police Car,” he also produced … ►

It’s Fresh and Fishy Time Again – three new releases from Fruits de Mer

April 21, 2014 | Dave Thompson | 0

Three new releases from Fruits de Mer wilI be joining us at the end of May – and though that seems like a long way off, it isn’t. So pre-order pens at the ready, and…. It’s been a long time … ►

Unravel the history of London Suede, the Britpop band that should’ve been bigger

April 16, 2014 | Goldmine staff | 0

By Dave Thompson Of all the vinyl box sets released in 2013 —particularly those that appeared only in the U.K., and thus arrived in this country only with monstrous price tags attached — the most alluring for a certain kind … ►

Deborah Bonham – the Blues with Spirit

April 9, 2014 | Dave Thompson | 0

Classic Rock magazine glows over her warm and fulsome voice”; Blues Revue describes her as “the Duchess of Blues-Rock”; Firework calls her “amazing woman”; and when Blues Matters caught her duetting with Dan McCafferty, it was “a vocal marriage made … ►

Here Comes the Ski Patrol!

April 2, 2014 | Dave Thompson | 0

Of all the bands that hovered around the UK punk and post-punk scene at the tail end of the seventies, so many of whom trailed away having left barely a mark on the popular consciousness, one of the most invigorating … ►

Mike Oldfield – Man on the Rocks

March 31, 2014 | Dave Thompson | 0

Talking to Goldmine this time last year, Mike Oldfield warned, “The new album is totally different to [his then-current] Tubular Beats. There’s no software at all and everything is live backing tracks. “I have a coproducer called Steve Lipson, who’s … ►

Behold the bounty of early Fleetwood Mac in a vinyl box set

March 24, 2014 | Goldmine staff | 0

Anybody with an ear for post-1960s rock has a favorite era of Fleetwood Mac. For some, it’s the classic blues-breaking albums that introduced the band to the world. For others, it’s the unicorns and weirdness of the late 1970s; for others still, it’s the sleek beasties that stirred in the aftermath of “Tusk.” But for anyone who sallied forth as often as possible to catch the likes of Foghat and Humble Pie, it’s the post-Green, pre-Buckingham, pre-superstardom era of the big Mac. ►