Reviews
Bar de Paco
The rich and versatile voice of Cuban singer and composer Max Max (aka Yoandri Castro Max) will be familiar to...
Reviewed in issue October/2020
Rough Guide to Spiritual Blues
As the music of gambling dens, bordellos, barrelhouses and anywhere else vice was to be found, the blues swiftly earned...
Reviewed in issue October/2020
The Rough Guide to the Roots of Gospel
In the early days of popular recording, blues and gospel marched hand in hand – God’s music and the devil’s...
Reviewed in issue October/2020
Doce Milongas de Amor y un Tango Desesperado
Sometimes it’s hard to hear a song for the first time. That’s certainly the case for me with Delfina Cheb’s...
Reviewed in issue October/2020
Got to Be Tough
The first Toots and the Maytals release in over ten years is a big deal for reggae enthusiasts. The 77-year-old...
Reviewed in issue October/2020
Cumbia Siglo XXI
Colombian society and culture is always at the core of Meridian Brothers, a conceptual tropical band led by Eblis Alvarez....
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2020
Thread
Vocalist and multiinstrumentalist Sally Anne Morgan is one of the central figures in a tidal movement among young(er) Appalachian and...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2020
Drink
Rising up through New York's 90s ska scene, bassist and producer Victor Rice went on to play an important role...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2020
Tempestad
This one takes me back to the 90s, when record labels threw money at bands to make arena-filling rock that...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2020
