Mainstream Rock Music

Review of Brian Wilson's CD "Live at the Roxy Theatre" and Elliott Smith's CD "XO"

Review of latest CDs "Silver & Gold", "IO", "Up up up up" and "Bachelor No 2 or the Last Remains of Dodo".

Paul Allen's Experience Music Project (Seattle, USA) will provide a feast for the gourmet of rock music, when it opens in summer 2000.

Small record companies like Woodstock Records are important additions to the mainstream companies.

Rock music is body music in essence, and body music means music which gives pleasure to the body.

Warren Zevon has issued a new CD and it's called very appropriately "Life'll kill ya". Great title in times when everybody else wants you to prevent your own death by getting involved in prevention programs of all kinds.

If you don't know Kevin Coyne, the English social worker turned folk/rock singer expressing strong opinions about England in the 1970s and 1980s ... well if you don't know this guy, then it's certainly time to shell out some bucks and buy Dan Bern "Smartie Mine" (1999) and Kelly Joe Phelps. ...

Cindy Bullens has come up with a remarkable piece of music documenting an even more remarkable piece of responsibility and self-determination in the best sense.

Last month, Doug Sahm and Hoyt Axton died. Both men will be missed.

There are two reasons for the impact, Archie generates: his voice is clear and straight forward, and the music is plain music, no gimmicks.