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February 19, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Drive-By Truckers: The Unraveling
Drive-By Truckers The Unraveling ATO Records For the best part of a quarter-century and across at least a dozen albums Drive-By Truckers has built a name. And that name is Quality. That name is Integrity. I like to say that they’re – somehow – getting better with each and every album and though that’s perhaps […]Archive
September 28, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 243
Bettye LaVette, The Scene of the Crime (2007) I saw Bettye LaVette in concert close to 20 years ago – she was a nobody in a way, she’d had the first phase of her career and hadn’t yet had the mighty comeback. But shit she was good! It was obvious she was a ferocious talent. […]Archive
February 16, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 434
Drive-By Truckers, Kinky Hypocrite [Single] (2016) This “one-sided single” is part of the packaging with the vinyl edition of the last Truckers album, my favourite record of 2016. A masterpiece. Maybe the best album by Drive-By Truckers, a band that’s never really made a bad album – and has in fact made all kinds of great albums. […]Archive
May 19, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Five Songs For Friday: # 13 – Evening Mope
The weekend is here, I’m late with the five songs so this one can be an evening edition, songs for your Friday night rather than for your Friday – it’s been a great week, mostly. Lots of good podcast stuff happening, gathering interviews, lining up a few more, interviewing and editing…all very good. And then […]Archive
February 1, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast: Episode 48 – James Robinson
Welcome to episode 48 of Sweetman Podcast brought to you by Phantom Billstickers. A chat with Kiwi-born, American-based writer James Robinson. He had a blog on Stuff.co.nz – which he turned into a book. The blog – and then the book – looked at life in America and perceptions of America; the way we, as […]Archive
November 10, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Five Songs For Friday: # 2 – The ‘We’ve Been Trumped!’ Edition
My first Friday in a while without Oscar – his first Friday at school. Strange week this week, very strange…lots of cool things happening (I met Robert Forster, new podcast up with Charlotte Yates, got a bit of reading done – tomorrow I’m the MC at one of the LitCrawl events, one showcasing some of […]Archive
October 15, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 615
Warpaint, The Fool (2010) For me with Warpaint it really all started here – yes, the EP before this debut album is great (and I got to that after) but it was The Fool that sold me on the sound of the band after the promise of some of the early, vital/viral YouTube clips. Such […]Archive
August 13, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Drive-By Truckers: It’s Great To Be Alive!
Drive-By Truckers It’s Great To Be Alive! ATO Records Near the end of 2014 Drive-By Truckers ran a three-night-stand at San Francisco’s Fillmore and this is the triple-disc set that captures the best of their efforts there. It’s a wondrous thing – utterly raw and beautifully ugly. That songwriters Mike Cooley and Patterson Hood both […]Archive
October 28, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Radio Nowhere by Michael Ross: # 7 – Cities Where Stuff Happened
Something different today, before regular Radio Nowhere service finally resumes… People travel for a lot of fairly obvious reasons – to eat, drink, see the sights, visit friends, and so on. Me? I mainly travel so I’ll have a good excuse for repeatedly missing blog deadlines, and also because there’s a part of me that’s […]Archive
April 15, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Mel Parsons: Drylands
Mel Parsons Drylands M. Parsons Mel Parsons has always had the right approach and enough of the right sound. Tour, tour, tour, write, write, write – lovely voice and these soft, malleable song-shapes. All correct, present, accounted for – but there are so many people vying for that space, New Zealand seems/seemed to be running […]Archive
December 5, 2014 by Simon Sweetman