by Sean Passmore | Jan 1, 2025 | Blog, Xmas Stuff
A Christmas Gift for You: The Timeless Legacy of Phil Spector’s Holiday Album – Part 8 of The 12 Records of Yule In the pantheon of holiday music, few albums carry the weight and charm of Phil Spector’s A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector....
by Sean Passmore | Nov 24, 2024 | Album of the Week
Album Of The Week (for the week of November 24, 2024) Ringo Starr Crooked Boy Even with all their past glories burning brightly as ever, there has been an unprecedented whirlwind of Beatles releases over the past 12 months, not the least of which is perhaps the...
by Sean Passmore | Oct 27, 2024 | The Vinyl Shoppe
Although the Beatles gave up performing live for good in the summer of 1966, their last performance in their hometown took place more than eight months earlier on December 5, 1965. That night, they played the Empire Theatre on Lime Street in the heart of...
by Sean Passmore | Oct 6, 2024 | Album of the Week
RNRF ALBUMS OF THE WEEK for the week of October 6, 2024 2024 Top 10 Albums Of The Week For October 6, 2024 Robyn Hitchcock 1967: Vacations In The Past JD McPherson Nite Owls Nick Wheeldon & The Living Paintings Waiting For The Piano To Fall...
by Sean Passmore | Sep 24, 2024 | Album of the Week
In all the years olde English psychedelic tunesmith Robyn Hitchcock has been making albums, going all the way back to his 1979 debut, A Can Of Bees, with his band Soft Boys, he has never made a bad album. As a matter of FACT, Robyn Hitchcock has never made a mediocre...
