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EARLY MAY REVIEWS by Mike Baron   JAY GONZALEZ: Mess of Happiness (Middle Brow) Freed from his duties as keyboardist for the Drive By Truckers, Jay Gonzalez proves himself to be a pop romanticist with sophisticated melodies and hooks similar to Greg Pope or Chris Von Sneidern.  ”Punch of Love” lives up to its name, the [...]

JANGLE ON! by Eric Sorenson         Although only a few new albums that feature jangly music have gotten play time this past month, those jangly discs that have caught my ear have a concentration of excellent chiming tracks.  Albums and songs that made my monthly “Jangle Pop Sampler” include:   &IU – D.L. BYRON From start to [...]

JANGLE ON! by Eric Sorenson   Here’s a quick synopsis of the latest group of jangly tracks and albums that have caught my ear:   Can’t Come Down – the Parties  The Rainbow Quartz label has the market cornered on contemporary psych-pop and pseudo-60s pop bands.  The Parties are no exception to this rule.  Sweet [...]

  WHAT’S GOING AHN I can’t believe how much has happened in the last few weeks!  Some great links and news to share.  As always, done in a rapid-fire, quick, no duff, not messing around manner.  Well written prose not spoken here! ;-P Check out the array of light blue hotlinks strewn out below and….Let’s [...]

I was the owner of Not Lame Recordings from 1994-2010. The label released almost 100 CDs, no small accomplishment for one man. In retrospect, it was insanity. There are many [...]

In 1998, one of the power pop’s genres most heralded releases came out on the Not Lame Recordings label. It was called “Life On Planet Eartsnop”.  It was an immediate [...]

Most book projects in the entertainment world tend to promote the most popular and successful artists – the ones who sell millions of records.  Few have ever wanted to cover [...]

I have this idea.  I think it’s a good one. A really good one. Here it is: What would it like to have a peak inside the music collections of [...]