Feature: Vinyl Tap

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Gordon Hauptfleisch

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• Vinyl Tap: Roxy Music - Country Life

  "Oh here it comes again / That old ennui..."

  Review by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on May 12, 2006

• Vinyl Tap: The Replacements - Tim

  "We are the sons of no one, bastards of young..."

  Review by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on May 02, 2006

• Vinyl Tap: Roxy Music - Stranded

  "Is it the end of another affair / An open engagement with gloom?"

  Review by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Apr 27, 2006

• Vinyl Tap: Mike McGear - McGear

  Paul McCartney’s brother grabs onto some coattails and a little nepotism, and a whole lot of Beatle-esque help.

  Review by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Apr 24, 2006

• Vinyl Tap: Elvis Costello - This Year's Model

  Sometimes he almost feels just like a human being. This isn't one of those times...

  Review by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Apr 12, 2006

• Vinyl Tap: 'Til Tuesday - Everything's Different Now

  In the last 'Til Tuesday album, Aimee Mann considers the big picture and the small details of love and life.

  Review by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Apr 10, 2006

• Vinyl Tap: Brute Force - I, Brute Force - Confections Of Love

  Eric Von Zipper sings Jimmy Webb. Kind of, and sort of.

  Review by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Apr 09, 2006

• Vinyl Tap: Thin White Rope - Moonhead

  Coiled rattlesnakes on the two-lane blacktop: sinuous, sibilating guitar lines and death-rattle vocals resonate with insidious menace - and a lysergic surge.

  Review by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Mar 28, 2006

• Vinyl Tap: The Plimsouls - Everywhere At Once

  Transport yourself "A Million Miles Away": "I started drifting to a different place / I realized I was falling off the face of the world..."

  Review by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Mar 24, 2006

• Vinyl Tap: Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady

  Infectious and frenetic, a different kind of tension.

  Review by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Mar 22, 2006