In the Orbit of Roxy: The Roxy Music Family Tree
The beginning of 2023 gives us the opportunity to clear the deck. To take the old article ideas and push them aside to make way for the new. It’s also a time to tackle those worthwhile projects that have been lingering in the background all year. At the top of that list was a Vinyl…
The Vinyl Dreamscape’s Top 10 Albums of 2022
2022 has been an surprisingly good year for new music. With the world on fire in nearly every direction, again it’s the artists and musicians that guide humanity forward. To clarify the point, we have endeavored to put together 10 records that readers may have overlooked; The Vinyl Dreamscape’s Top Ten Albums for 2022. With…
Thomas Dolby / The Flat Earth / 1984: Synth Pop Heaven or New Romantic Nightmare?
With the release of his 2nd full-length album in the summer of 1984, Thomas Dolby created the rarest of musical gems; The Flat Earth being a off-beat, complex and overlooked treasure that’s sitting in dollar-bins everywhere from Detroit to London. An album that weaves together the sounds of synth and electronica with acoustic instrumention to…
Talking Heads / Fear of Music / 1980: Music in the age of D.R.E.A.D.
There was no doubt about it; if you wanted to listen to rock-radio in Detroit during the late 1970s, W.R.I.F. were your call-letters. The RIF (as it was commonly known) was the go-to spot on the FM radio dial for the “home of rock n’ roll”. The station played a significant role in the community;…
Jerry Lee Lewis / September 29, 1935 – October 28, 2022
JERRY LEE LEWIS died on Friday, October 28th. And while there are those who will remember him only for the scandal of marrying Myra Lewis Williams, his 13 year old cousin in 1957; Lewis was a true pioneer of rock n’roll music. His influence and style can be heard and seen across the music spectrum; from punk…
The Proletariat’s Guide to the Music of David Sylvian
The sun shines high above / The sounds of laughter / The birds swoop down upon / The crosses of old grey churches / We say that we’re in love / While secretly wishing for rain / Sipping Coke and playing games / September’s here again / September’s here again David Sylvian’s catalog has always…
Tristan Perich / Drift Multiply / 2020
“You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning. . . . We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave – that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil – Hunter…
Michael Heonig / Departure from the Northern Wasteland / 1978: The Kosmische Hell Hound of Berlin
Repetition is the image of eternity in music / The music of the past justifies itself for its limitation / The music of the future is sparing itself this effort American blues musician, Robert Johnson (1911-1938) recorded only 29 songs during his short life. An remarkably limited catalog for an artist when you consider the…
The Sadies / Colder Streams / 2022: Connecting the threads
On February 17 2022, Dallas Good, guitar-player and vocalist for the Canadian country/psych band, The Sadies, unexpectedly died from a coronary illness. Dallas was 48 years old. The band’s already finished album, Colder Streams was then released in July 2022. Colder Streams isn’t just another great album by the Sadies. The band has been making great albums since their first in 1998 with, Precious…
(Even More) Krautrock Rarities
The purpose of Part One of our Top 10 Krautrock Rarities was to move beyond the usual classic albums from the past. We decided to save the gushing platitudes about the usual suspects (Can’s Tago Mago or Faust IV) for someone else. That’s a concept that has been done again and again and again. Just as…
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