Category Archives: Review Revue

Review Revue: David Sylvian - Secrets of the Beehive

By Levi Fuller | Published: May 16, 2013

Can you believe it’s been over a year since our last David Sylvian post? My, how time flies. Back in 2012, we looked at his 1986 album, Gone to Earth, so it seems only fitting to move forward in time by another year and see how KCMU reacted to its followup, 1987′s Secrets of theRead more...

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Review Revue: Nikki Sudden and Dave Kusworth: Jacobites - Pin Your Heart to Me

By Levi Fuller | Published: May 9, 2013

One thing I’ve noticed over the years I’ve been writing these blog posts is that I should really know more about the English city of Birmingham and its music. While it might not have the name recognition of Manchester, Liverpool, and London to those of us outside of the UK, Birmingham has produced a disproportionateRead more...

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Review Revue: Big Youth - The Chanting Dread Inna Fine Style

By Levi Fuller | Published: May 2, 2013

The epic debate that unfolds on the cover of this unassuming collection of Jamaican music from the ’70s and ’80s pretty much speaks for itself. Apparently the only thing that stirs the college radio station pot more than the sweet sounds of ABC is the idea of a reggae compilation in heavy rotation. Scandal! IRead more...

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Review Revue: The Celibate Rifles - Blind Ear

By Levi Fuller | Published: April 25, 2013

It always does my heart good when a band’s Wikipedia entry starts with the present tense (“The Celibate Rifles are an Australian punk rock band... “). It lets me know that however long ago this band began (1978 or -9 for this particular Australian punk rock band, depending on whom you ask), their story isRead more...

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Review Revue: The Monochrome Set - Eligible Bachelors

By Levi Fuller | Published: April 18, 2013

I swear I don’t go combing through the KEXP stacks looking for LPs from English bands I’ve never heard - my main criterion is records with a good amount of stickers on their covers, preferably with some kind of scintillating debate - but you’d be forgiven for thinking that was my prime motivation. Regardless ofRead more...

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Review Revue: Che - Narcotic

By Levi Fuller | Published: April 11, 2013

It is proving quite difficult to find out much information about Che (pronounced, we are informed here, “Shay”) or Alix Plain, the person behind this project. The very minimal Allmusic entry mentions that Plain was the odd man out when his previous band, Modern Eon, broke up and the other four members continued as ThisRead more...

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Review Revue: Jimmy Cliff - Images

By Levi Fuller | Published: April 4, 2013

Jimmy Cliff might be the most prolific artist I’ve covered in this blog (OK, probably not more prolific than Jandek, but he’s superhuman). Last year, forty-five years after his debut, he released the Tim Armstrong-produced Rebirth, which shocked the world by being both a brilliant artistic achievement and an incredibly fun listen. “He’s back!” weRead more...

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Review Revue: The King of Luxembourg - Sir

By Levi Fuller | Published: March 28, 2013

Simon Fisher Turner seems like a fascinating individual. He has been an actor on several BBC series; recorded music under his own name (both with and without his middle name) and as The King of Luxembourg and Deux Filles; and been a member of both the Portsmouth Sinfonia Orchestra and The The. Currently he makesRead more...

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Review Revue: Lene Lovich - No Man’s Land

By Levi Fuller | Published: March 21, 2013

If you’re like me, odds are you hear the name Lene Lovich (or, as I recently did, find a copy of this very album in the bins at Goodwill) and instantly hear her distinctively playful yet unabashedly Teutonic voice squeaking out the hook to her best-known song, “Lucky Number.” Like so many brilliant artists ofRead more...

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Review Revue: George Thorogood and the Destroyers - Bad to the Bone

By KEXP | Published: March 14, 2013

You might not think George Thorogood and the Destroyers would be the most obvious choice for rotation at a scrappy college station in the early ’80s, but there are a couple important points you should remember: 1) Before “Bad to the Bone” had been played into the ground by rock radio, then classic rock radioRead more...

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