""While there's certainly no shortage ..." more

""While there's certainly no shortage of great folk reissues, Bridget St. John's first album (as well as her next two records) is right up there with Sandy Denny's and Nick Drake's best work, not to mention Linda Perhac's Parallelograms and Vashti Bunyan's seminal Just Another Diamond Day." [OtherMusicreview]" less

""You'd think that with a sci-fi novel..." more

""You'd think that with a sci-fi novelist as a front man and rock cosmonauts Hawkwind as band, things would get ridiculously overblown, but they somehow managed to make a concise and fairly down to earth record, all things considered. It mostly reminds me of early Bowie and T-Rex, chugging glam rock populated with drug pushers, candy floss cowboys and sixteen-year-old doom girls with "death rattles in their throats." There's a novelist's flair for detail for you. It's an original album no doubt, but weirdly familiar, like how the old blues refrain "Alabama Bound" is transmuted here to "Valhalla Bound." I grew out of sci-fi, but I don't think I'll ever grow out of rock n' roll, and I gotta tell ya it feels pretty good to have Mr. Moorcock back in my life." [OtherMusicreview]" less

""Originally released moments after th..." more

""Originally released moments after the band called it a day in 1972 on John Peel's Dandelion label, Bugger Off! is the definitive statement in British thug R&B mayhem. Really, this is one of the most extreme recorded moments of the 1970s or any other decade and it should not be missed." [OtherMusicreview]" less

""Eschewing the stark contrasts of YMG..." more

""Eschewing the stark contrasts of YMG's Colossal Youth for a sound that mixes the pastoral ambient soundscapes, arty Germanic grooves, and lyrical non sequiturs of Eno's Another Green World and Before & After Science albums with the heartbreaking desperation and bedroom bossa novas of early Everything but the Girl and the Marine Girls (whose second LP was produced by Moxham), Stuart Moxham assembles an all-star crew of Rough Trade pals to contribute -- both of his YMG bandmates make appearances, as do members of This Heat, Swell Maps, Essential Logic, and the Flying Lizards." [OtherMusicreview]" less

""This reissue of a cassette, released..." more

""This reissue of a cassette, released in an edition of a few dozen copies almost twenty years ago, reveals Jay as a secret weapon from a place already teeming with an underheard arsenal... Fans of outsider music, Dead Moon, Roky, the Velvets (wait'll you hear Jay's expansive cover of "Ocean"), and the enduring legacy of Ohio rock as it turned to punk and new wave, your ship has come in. Easily one of the most remarkable archival discoveries in years." [OtherMusicreview]" less

""Originally released in the mid-'80s,..." more

""Originally released in the mid-'80s, this collection of singles, overseen by producer Sherwood, includes Jah Woosh, Prince Far I, Sons of Arqa, the Mothmen, New Age Steppers and Judy Nylon. Recommended to fans of Konk, Mark Stewart/Pop Group, Gang of Four, Liquid Liquid, Rip Rig and Panic and Sherwood's own Creation Rebel project." [OtherMusicreview]" less

""Pachuco Boogie documents the Hispani..." more

""Pachuco Boogie documents the Hispanic hipster underground of 1940s Los Angeles. This was a thriving culture of Zoot-suited dudes whose music was a weird melange of Latin rhythms, R&B, and boogie woogie. It's all so familiar, yet different." [OtherMusicreview]" less