Graham Parker Album Anniversary Sparks Another Songbook by Martin Belmont
Forty years ago, Graham Parker and the Rumour released their fourth studio album, Squeezing Out Sparks, to critical and popular acclaim. It topped the Village Voice’s 1979 Pazz & Jop Critics’ Poll. In Creem magazine’s Top Album Readers’ Poll for…
JOHN LIAS HAS GOT MORE SOUL IN THE SECOND VOLUME OF SPINNING AROUND
Zulema Cusseaux’s 1978 album, Z-licious, was a product of its times, peppered as it was with “inevitable disco touches.” Van McCoy wrote three songs and sang on “I’m Not Dreaming,” a “dull ballad that became her last soul hit at…
YACHTS SET SAIL AGAIN WITH NEW BOX SET
It was a fluke that the British new wave band Yachts developed their signature “garage-y pop sound,” as described by head Yachtsman Henry Priestman. And it was just by chance that the band got signed in the first place. Yachts’…