Category Archives: Review Revue

Review Revue: Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel

By Levi Fuller | Published: September 13, 2012

Do I really have to introduce you to Peter Gabriel? No, I don’t think I do, but if you’ve never heard him before and need me to stand outside your window with a boombox playing “Shock the Monkey,” just let me know in the comments. Before So, the album featuring the song used in theRead more...

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Review Revue: Salem 66 - Down the Primrose Path

By Levi Fuller | Published: September 6, 2012

Whatever the decade, Boston is a tough town to be from if you’re a band. Sure, it’s had its share of breakout stars - Boston (of course), The Cars, Buffalo Tom, Tracy Chapman, The Pixies, Sebadoh, Dinosaur Jr. (and yes, we’re stretching out to Western Massachusetts with some of those), etc. - but for whateverRead more...

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Review Revue: Television - Marquee Moon

By Levi Fuller | Published: August 30, 2012

Lately I’ve been kind of obsessed with this album, the 1977 debut from NYC post-punk geniuses Television. I’ve been enjoying it for over a decade - it’s one of those albums that, whenever you put it on, you think “why don’t I listen to this every day?” - but recently, perhaps prompted by this wonderfulRead more...

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Review Revue: Of Cabbages and Kings - Face

By Levi Fuller | Published: August 23, 2012

Lewis Carroll’s brilliant, hilarious, and surreal contributions to literature have inspired many artistic offshoots over the years, from Terry Gilliam’s hilariously disturbing film Jabberwocky to Tom Petty’s 1980s music videos to Tom Waits’s Alice and beyond. But the band Of Cabbages and Kings is perhaps the one that would be the most confounding to theRead more...

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Review Revue: The Fuzztones - Lysergic Emanations

By Levi Fuller | Published: August 16, 2012

This week’s installment of Review Revue is devoted to the debut LP by New York garage revivalists The Fuzztones, who have been rocking fairly steadily under the leadership of Rudi Protrudi (which is allegedly his real, if not his given, name) for over thirty years now - an impressive feat, any way you slice it.Read more...

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Review Revue: Mary Kelley - Greetings Five

By Levi Fuller | Published: August 9, 2012

For perhaps the first time in this series, an artist’s own web site is proving to be my best source. I’m not sure how musically active Mary Kelley is these days (although it’s clear she started playing music again in 2006 after a long hiatus), but her personal site is filled with information, both biographicalRead more...

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Review Revue: B.A.L.L. - Bird

By Levi Fuller | Published: August 2, 2012

I have sung the praises of the label Shimmy Disc in this space before, and I hope to do so again. This iconoclastic, upstart label released some of the strangest (and best) college-radio-dj-fodder of the ’80s and ’90s, and must not be forgotten. From what little information is available online, I have gleaned that B.A.L.L.Read more...

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Review Revue: Public Image - First Issue

By Levi Fuller | Published: July 26, 2012

Yes, this is my third post featuring an album by John Lydon’s (apparently) controversial post-Sex Pistols group, Public Image Ltd., aka PiL. Except, what’s that? There’s no “Ltd” on this record? It’s just Public Image? Yes, that does seem to be the case. This is the band’s first album, arriving so early in their existenceRead more...

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Review Revue: Big Daddy Kane - It’s a Big Daddy Thing

By Levi Fuller | Published: July 19, 2012

Quite some time ago, I posted the words of one of our (even longer ago) KCMU friends suggesting that Young MC had had his time in heavy rotation and that the powers that be give Big Daddy Kane a chance. (I’m not sure why it had to be a zero sum game, but that’s aRead more...

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Review Revue: Hula - Fever Car

By Levi Fuller | Published: July 12, 2012

There’s not a lot of info out there about Hula. I know that they’re from Sheffield, England, and that they were active in the mid-’80s (both of which facts you could probably glean from listening to their music). They also released two albums called Murmur and Shadowland, of course having no idea how much confusionRead more...

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