Name: Mike Newman
Dateline: New York, NY
Weblog: newmradio.wordpress.com [RSS]
Articles: 14
First Published: Friday, April 25, 2008
Last Published: Monday, November 17, 2008
Currently listing articles 14-1:
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Book Review: Classic Electrics - A Visual History of Great Guitars by Walter Carter— The perfect stocking stuffer for the gearhead axe-grinder in your life.
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Music DVD Review: Yes - The Director's Cut— With two full-length performances, this makes up for the shortcomings of the original tour document, Yesspeak.
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Music Review: Don Harris's Sugar Cane's Got the Blues and Pork Pie's Transitory— Most Promising Sound’s motto is 'to make music lovers happy’ and they have done just that with these two classic fusion reissues.
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Music Review: The Weight - Are Men— This is sheer rocky-tonk music that should be in every dive-bar jukebox in the country.
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Music Review: The Skatalites - Stretching Out— You can feel the small-room vibe of the club in the recordings and you can almost smell the ganga smoke.
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Music Review: Billy Joel - The Stranger (Sony Legacy Edition)— With this deluxe edition of Joel's masterpeice, you really get a perfect up-close account of a true original American artist in his prime.
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Music Review: Walter Becker - Circus Money (UK Release)— Circus Money is certainly up to par with the high level of quality that we’ve always known we could expect in any era of Steely
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Music Review: Irmin Schmidt & Kumo - Axolotl Eyes— Axolotl Eyes is another excellent chapter in Irmin Schmidt’s long and adventurous recording career.
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Welsh MAN Gets Royal Esoteric Treatment— The new MAN reissues are an eclectic lot of three stellar albums and one of them is their studio masterpiece.
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Music Review - The Detroit Cobras: The Original Recordings, Singles and Unreleased 1995-97— Detroit garage rock n' soul pros release a treasure trove of lo-fi goodies from their early days.
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Music Review: Man Raze - Surreal— This is fun straight-ahead rock and roll music, period.
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Music Review: The Best of UFO (1974-1983)— A brilliant compilation of songs from a band whose music informed 80s metal.
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Man: The Best Band You've Never Heard In Your Life— Radio hits or not, Man can certainly hold their heads high, as they’ve left behind some of the most interesting rock music of the 70s…
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Family: The Best Band You've Never Heard In Your Life— Family left behind a pretty remarkable, and overlooked, string of albums over their roughly five-year stint.
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