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Brandon Schott’s Verdugo Park EP: Talent, Heart, Soul and Pigeons
Brandon Schott | Verdugo Park EP | Golden State Music | 2014 A Review by Alan Haber (Win an autographed copy by filling out the form below) On this taster for his upcoming album, provisionally titled Crayons and Angels, Brandon Schott again refines and expands on themes he has explored on previous releases, most notably Continue reading
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Dana Countryman’s Pop 2!: Sounds of the Seventies Come Alive in 2014!
Dana Countryman | Pop 2! The Exploding Musical Mind of Dana Countryman | Sterling Swan Records | 2014 A Review by Alan Haber (Put your name in the virtual hat for a chance to win one of nine autographed copies of Pop 2!. Click here for all of the details.) If I could turn back Continue reading
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Dave Caruso’s Delicious Soft-Pop Stew Serves Up a Tantalizing Meal
Dave Caruso | Cardboard Vegas Roundabout | 2014 Dave Caruso | Elizabeth Parker | 2004 A Review by Alan Haber (We’re giving away nine copies of this great album, by the way. See the contest form at the end of this page for details.) God knows how these things happen, but they do, they really Continue reading
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Jeff Lynne’s ELO Takes London’s Hyde Park by Storm! Tell Tchaikovsky the News!
Jeff Lynne’s ELO | BBC Radio 2’s Festival in a Day in Hyde Park, September 14, 2014 A review by Alan Haber “Yes, I’m turnin’ to stone ‘cos you ain’t comin’ home, why you ain’t comin’ home if I’m turnin’ to stone? You’ve been gone for so long and I can’t carry on, yes I’m Continue reading
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Charming, Bittersweet “Sabina” Points to Fine Fall Album Release from Michael Oliver and the Sacred Band
I cannot remember the last time I was so charmed by a song that I played it over and over again upon receipt. Only seconds into the first single from the forthcoming, hopefully late-Fall-ish album by Michael Oliver and the Sacred Band, Everything Sunny All the Time Always, I was thanking my lucky stars that Continue reading
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“Sorry Girls, He’s Married!” Joe Sullivan Strikes a Rock Star Pose and It Comes Out Pop
Joe Sullivan | Schlock Star | Reed Recording Company, 2014 Review by Alan Haber If this were another time and place and Sullivanmania had hit our shores in 1964, it would have been Joe striking a rock star pose on the stage of the Ed Sullivan Theater with the legend “Sorry Girls, He’s Married!” jittering Continue reading
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A Starr at Every Turn: Ringo Remastered!
(Originally published on the buhdge website in 2007) Ringo Starr | Photograph, The Very Best of Ringo (Capitol, 2007) Fab sticksman Richard Starkey M.B.E.’s best sides finally get a first-class remastering with Photograph The Very Best of Ringo Starr, a most welcome release that earns Capitol Records a back-off-boogaloo’s-worth of goodwill from fans. For one Continue reading
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Reviews from the Pages of buhdge: The Association’s Waterbeds in Trinidad (1972)
(Originally published on the buhdge website in 2006) Unfairly categorized as a singles band, the Association did not, as some would have you believe, make bad albums. They also did not become a less-interesting aggregation in the band’s later recording years, as this lone Columbia album proves. Released a year after the group’s final Warner Brothers release, Continue reading
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Ooh, Scary Good! A Look Back at Harry Nilsson’s Son of Schmilsson
(The following essay was written for the Discoveries Magazine website as part of their countdown to the release of the Harry Nilsson RCA Albums Collection on July 30, 2013, and is reproduced here by permission.) Without question, Harry Nilsson’s Son of Schmilsson was the right album for the right time. When it was released in Continue reading
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Apples, Apples, Everywhere
(Here is a look at XTC’s wonderful, unfortunately out-of-print, Apple Box. It originally appeared on the buhdge website on November 6, 2005. Note that the two new songs discussed below were also available on a single, promotional CD entitled Apple Bite and as part of the also-no-longer-available Apple Set, which also came with two t-shirts Continue reading
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