Category Archives: Review Revue

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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Review Revue: Slint - Tweez

By Levi Fuller | Published: March 7, 2013

What can I say about Slint that I didn’t already say in my 2008 Spiderland post? I kept it short back then, but I pretty much covered the bases: they were an excellent band that has been very influential over the years and they were phenomenal live, even almost twenty years after anyone thought they’dRead more...

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Review Revue: Megadeth - So Far, So Good... So What!

By Levi Fuller | Published: February 28, 2013

I’ve never really been a metal guy, and I think I’ve probably heard less of Megadeth’s music than what little I’ve heard of some of the other giants of metal. Actually, I think those super-awkward scenes with Dave Mustaine in Some Kind of Monster pretty much sum up the entirety of my Megadeth knowledge. Luckily,Read more...

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Review Revue: The Charlatans UK - Some Friendly

By Levi Fuller | Published: February 21, 2013

Wasn’t I just talking about my childhood love of The Charlatans UK? Indeed I was. So it seemed like a fine time to take a moment to check out the debut album from these lovable Mancunians - who, it must be said, are still going strong, having released their 11th studio album in 2010 andRead more...

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Review Revue: The Room - In Evil Hour

By Levi Fuller | Published: February 14, 2013

Welcome to another installment of Review Revue in which I wonder how the heck I got through my adolescence without hearing some band or other from the ’80s. Today I bring you The Room. Before that moniker referred to a sublimely terrible movie by Tommy Wiseau, it was a short-lived but relatively prolific band fromRead more...

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Review Revue: Suzi Quatro - The Greatest Hits

By Levi Fuller | Published: January 31, 2013

Suzi Quatro is probably the first person I’ve covered in this blog series who was also a cast member on Happy Days - which I watched quite a bit as a kid, but I don’t remember much of. But perhaps Quatro’s bass-playing character Leather Tuscadero was an early influence, subconsciously leading me to pick upRead more...

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Review Revue: Crime and the City Solution - The Bride Ship

By Levi Fuller | Published: January 24, 2013

Crime and the City Solution are one of many Australian bands that never really got their international due. For example, I first heard of them via their appearance in Wim Wenders’ film Wings of Desire. My attention was further drawn to them by the involvement of Mick Harvey, whose name you might not recognize butRead more...

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