Articles by Neil McDonald
Tales from Turnpike House
Tales from Turnpike House
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
Predicting how a new Saint Etienne album is going to sound is getting as easy as forecasting rain for London. Leaving 2002s Finisterre a...
Wolfmother
Please Experience Wolfmother Live
PUBLISHED Feb 21, 2008
The first concert DVD from these 70s-obsessed rockers from Oz nicely showcases the riff-happy power trios live prowess. The bands Sabbat...
The Heights
Toys & Kings
PUBLISHED Oct 30, 2007
Frenetic, woozy and not a little boozy, the Heights Toys & Kings is not, thankfully, a comeback album from the unlamented Jamie Walters-le...
The Manvils
Strange Disaster
PUBLISHED Oct 30, 2007
Hot on the heels of their recently released debut album, Buried Love, and their starring role in a particularly ubiquitous beer commercial...
Simon Wilcox
The Charm & The Strange
PUBLISHED Oct 30, 2007
Though still known by some solely as the daughter of David, Simon Wilcox has made a musical name for herself over the years, and has done s...
Izzys
The Violent Bear It Away
PUBLISHED Oct 16, 2007
Equal parts jagged street swagger, frayed country ballads and boozed-up blues, the third record from this NYC quartet seems torn largely fr...
The Lonesome Valley Singers
Corpse Circus Revue
PUBLISHED Sep 19, 2007
David Chenery, guitarist, lead vocalist and songwriter for the Lonesome Valley Singers, is something of a legend within the musical communi...
The Sadies
New Seasons
PUBLISHED Sep 19, 2007
For their seventh studio album, one of Canadas most beloved bands decamped to Spain to record with producer and former Jayhawks front-man...
