Step right up, get yer 2,015 album covers right here at Music to Eat! Well, we don’t really have that many covers, but let’s look back at a selection of covers from the last year. There were a lot of interesting graphic design, photography, and illustration ideas manifesting themselves in the music world. At their…
Author: Rob
Rush, Hell & the Summer of ’81
The stream turned blood orange red that summer. Back in the woods behind the apartment complex where I lived, my friends and I had spent the previous years building small dams, floating things and basically just hanging out. The stream was a drainage stream, and not long after spring had melted into languorous longer days,…
Quest for the Eye of the Orangutan
The night is soft, but charged with danger. Mingled with the sounds of the waves and the land crabs clawing their way up the palms is the whir of the computer drives. The bleeps and blips. The room is bathed in illuminated darkness. Bamboo blinds rattle lightly in the breeze. Out the window, the far-off…
Cabinet of Obscurites: “Rock & Roll Summer Camp 98”
An occasional feature showcasing excellent music by little-known artists who (generally) only put out one or two albums. It’s raucous. It’s communal. It’s a rock n’ roll summer camp! Back in the 1990s, Chris Hudson, cousin of Americana/roots band Blue Mountain’s leader Cary Hudson, had a small record label called Black Dog. In the summer of…
Andy Summers: “Luna”
Best known as guitarist for the Police, Andy Summers has a long and rich series of instrumental guitar albums. From Mysterious Barricades (1988) comes “Luna”, a peaceful song of the night, a song of the moon. Summers’ tone is clean and emotive over the slow, steady pulse of David Hentschel’s synthesizer, his guitar asking questions…
Cabinet of Obscurities: Gallygows- “Give It To Her”
An occasional feature showcasing excellent music by little-known artists who (generally) only put out one or two albums. A mellow melange of mellifluous pop, Give It To Her (2000) by Spain’s Gallygows was the band’s second album. Their only readily available release these days, a debut called Into the Dessert Ice is long out of print…
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