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LOST TREASURES by Peter Marston [linebreak style=”25.png”] JOEY MOLLAND “This Way Up” [linebreak style=”25.png”]   Yes, Joe Molland is Joey Molland from Badfinger. Why he switched from Joey to Joe for this 2001 release is unclear. In a March 2002 interview promoting This Way Up, Molland was asked, “So, who are you these days, Joe […]

LOST TREASURES by Peter Marston [linebreak style=”25.png”] BRONCO BULLFROG “What People Did Before TV”     As I approach the common challenges of middle age, I often am struck by the fact that I have wasted my entire life not working on the one thing that could save me: a time machine. Well, the music […]

JANGLE ON!  AUGUST by Eric Sorsensen [linebreak style=”simple”] The past month brought some extreme heat, some unseasonably mild weather … and a steady trickle of excellent jangly tunes and new power pop albums.  As a result, this month’s Jangle Pop compilation required very little filler.  The following discs and tracks should interest fellow jangly music […]

BLOODY RED BARON August reviews by Mike Baron BLUE CARTOON:  Are You Getting On? (Aardvark)             This Texas quintet has been producing melifluous pop rock, equal parts crunch and spaciness since the eighties.  Their wide range of influences has led them in many directions, often at the same time, but Are You Getting On exhibits a new cohesiveness–or perhaps there […]