Jazz Duo Spans Generations
Review of Joe Lovano & Hank Jones Kids: Live at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola
Music Review
Postcards in the Fall
Review of Marsha Malamet's Coney Island Winter
A Fabulous Wind
Review of Clive Kennedy's lost glam classic
Teaching a Tea Boy Guitar & Other Stories
Review of Craig Davies' Groovin' on a Shaft Cycle
The Familiar Stranger Gets Expanded
Review of Billy Joel's The Stranger 30th Anniversary
Lonely Space Boy
Review of Klaus Nomi's Za Bakdaz
A Slow Decline to Lasting Silence
Danny Kirwan: Second Chapter (Warner, UK)
When Danny Kirwan was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998, he was absent from the proceedings in New York. In terms of his contribution to popular music, this is a near-perfect act of symbolism. He was living a mundane routine of homelessness, a regular at a hostel for alcoholics in Soho (London), his semi-permanent address since his life had taken a downwards turn at the end of the Seventies.
In Praise of the New Sobriety
Review of The Charlatans' You Cross My Path
Faking It Like Porn
Rob Cochrane's Coldplay review