Pop Geek Heaven

    May 2021 REVIEWS by Mike Baron CHRIS CHURCH: Game Dirt (Big Stir) Chris Church’s Backwards Compatible landed last year like a thermonuclear bomb, melding power pop hooks to hard rock to create ear-bending fusion. Church wisely does not go down the same path with Game Dirt, which finds him dipping more into rockabilly, Americana and roots rock, as in the opener, […]

JANGLE ON! – May 2021 by Eric Sorensen   The pandemic hasn’t kept artists from recording and releasing that steady stream of pop/rock tunes with jangly and chiming guitar riffs – that I mentioned last month.  The azaleas are in full bloom here in the Washington, D.C. area – and jangly songs seem to be […]