Dropkick – Good Vibes: The Dropkick Songbook Vol. 1 (2014)
If you missed Dropkick the first time around, here’s your chance to sample the Scottish band’s wares in a single swoop.

If you missed Dropkick the first time around, here’s your chance to sample the Scottish band’s wares in a single swoop.

Andreas Varady’s Steely Dan remake begins with an approach out of the Wes Montgomery playbook. Then something interesting happens.

Catchy songwriting, combined with imaginative breaks supply Julian Leal’s synth-poppy ‘A New Beginning’ with vitality and direction.
We find a wide diversity of artists applying a wide diversity of styles.

Why “Shake It Off” when you can “Give It Away”? Hawley answers that question.

A lot of Dirty Loops’ covers have been released via YouTube, and the latest one to hit the video circuit is their more organic, more virtuosic rendition of Avicii’s Aloe Blacc-sung “Wake Me Up.”
With Lennon and Harrison’s untimely passings, this is as close as we’ll ever get again.

A golden voice is silenced, but only in the here and now.
Clearly, Judith Owen has read the book on making a perfect jazz/pop album.

A force in its day, the music of this seminal funk-jazz-rock combo remains very much potent today.