Whether by design or pure coincidence, 2016 is turning out to be the perfect year for The Pop Group to step back into the public eye Past Perfect
The Pop Group
For How Much Longer Will We Tolerate Mass Murder?
April 8th, 2016 | by Dorian S. Ham | published in Past Perfect | Leave A Comment »
Whether by design or pure coincidence, 2016 is turning out to be the perfect year for The Pop Group to step back into the public eye
The Feelies
Only Life and Time for a Witness
March 24th, 2016 | by Stephen Slaybaugh | published in Past Perfect | Leave A Comment »
I’m not so predisposed to luddism as to tell you that things were better in the days before the internet put a gabillion superbytes of information at our
Various Artists
Still In a Dream
March 14th, 2016 | by Stephen Slaybaugh | published in Past Perfect | Leave A Comment »
Though its heyday lasted just a few years, the so-called shoegaze movement of the early ’90s has continued to have a lasting effect on music
Circle Jerks
VI
March 2nd, 2016 | by Dorian S. Ham | published in Past Perfect | Leave A Comment »
There’s something about the early days of punk that seems, not disposable, but unconcerned about the future. When the major labels took a hard pass
Styrenes
CLE 76–79 Unreleased
February 29th, 2016 | by Stephen Slaybaugh | published in Past Perfect | Leave A Comment »
If you’re at all familiar with the idiosyncratic musical output that emerged from Cleveland in the ’70s and which has since been labeled as proto-punk, you
Swans
White Light from the Mouth of Infinity and Love of Life
February 1st, 2016 | by Jamie Pietras | published in Past Perfect | Leave A Comment »
Swans’ sprawling discography, spanning 1983 to present, is often assessed by epochs. Early Swans is sludgy and scary, a slow
Buck Owens
Buck ’Em! Volume 2
December 4th, 2015 | by Dorian S. Ham | published in Past Perfect | Leave A Comment »
When the pillars of country music are listed, there are always the usual suspects of Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, Patsy Cline, and the like
John Coltrane
A Love Supreme: The Complete Masters
December 1st, 2015 | by Matt Slaybaugh | published in Past Perfect | Leave A Comment »
This year sees the 50th anniversary of the release of John Coltrane’s undisputed masterpiece. A Love Supreme is one of the most
Coil
Backwards
November 16th, 2015 | by Dorian S. Ham | published in Past Perfect | Leave A Comment »
There’s convoluted, and then there’s Coil. While it’s been difficult for even the most obsessive of archivist to keep the band’s story straight, what is clear
Various Artists
Creation Artifact: The Dawn of Creation Records 1983–1985
October 26th, 2015 | by Stephen Slaybaugh | published in Past Perfect | Leave A Comment »
Before it was associated with doofuses sporting beards and man-buns, being hip was something to which one aspired. It was a