Rich Batsford (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Hi Folks Im excited to be playing a set of my songs (ie songs with words as opposed to the piano instrumentals I sometimes play) at the lovely Bohemian Jukebox event on Tuesday July 29th. Since I last played the Jukebox its moved to what is very possibly the best pub in Moseley or Kings Heath at [...]
PopMatters Music (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Two new reissues portray Arthur Lee's complicated life after "Forever".
Manchester Online (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
THERE'S been much talk about Turner and Kane's supergroup giving in to their Beatles influences too easily, but Standing Next To Me smacks not of Lennon and McCartney but rather of Arthur Lee's psychedelic rock band Love.
Passion of the Weiss (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
Were I not going to be suffering under the deliriously hot Van Nuys sun playing baseball all Saturday, chances are I’d be at the Where the Action Was Rock Tour hosted by the very fine rock writer, Kim Cooper. Yeah, I get nerdy like that. What’s it to you? The moral of this ramble is [...]
Electric Roulette (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
I've seen Love a few times now. First time I saw 'em, I figured it was gonna be rubbish. I've seen a fair number of sixties acts being wheeled out and boy, summovvem stunk up the place with long onanistic...
The big take over (Free subscription) | 06/08/2008
A not so brief explanation of why Love’s Forever Changes IS such a stellar album.
Funky16Corners (Free subscription) | 05/27/2008
The Master “Listen - Jimmy McGriff - A Thing To Come By Pts 1&2 - MP3″ “Listen - Jimmy McGriff - Fat Cakes - MP3″ Greetings all. I wasn't planning a post tonight, but after spending an absolutely lovely Memorial Day hanging with my brother and his family, I came home, logged on and found out that [...]
Cincinnati Enquirer (Free subscription) | 05/22/2008
Cincinnati gets a high-profile chance to join the album-concert trend when hometown band Over the Rhine opens the new National City Pavilion at Riverbend Music Center Saturday night.
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 05/19/2008
LOS ANGELES, CA -- They recorded one of the most influential albums of the late '60s in the folk-rocking Forever Changes, an album that took 20 years to be fully appreciated and has been recently reissued in a deluxe edition. But the band Love, fronted by tortured genius Arthur Lee, switched musical gears almost immediately after recording its masterpiece. Lee recruited a whole new Love to record the...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 05/18/2008
The Primal Scream star tells
Rock and Roll Daily (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Contrary to reports, Fatboy Slim will not retire his moniker and instead keep the name “Fatboy Slim.” The DJ's new album The PBA will be released later this year. Love Story, a documentary about Arthur Lee and his band Love, will hit DVD on July 29th. The doc will feature exclusive interviews Lee, who died in [...]
Passion of the Weiss (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Goals for the remainder of the year: Stop writing articles for the LA Weekly involving the phrase, [Random Band] is the Best [Insert Hyperbolic Superlative Here]. That said, I get hopelessly stannish when talk turns to Arthur Lee and Love, in particular their masterpiece, Forever Changes, which was just re-issued by Rhino last month complete [...]
The big take over (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
by 11 May 2008Love – Forever Changes (Rhino) Rhino’s new two-disk expanded reissue cannot be recommended highly enough. What makes the album all the more remarkable is that Arthur Lee was all of 22 when he created his masterwork. Readymade – On Point and Red (Endearing) For Against – Shade Side, Sunny Side (Words on Music) Blonde Redhead – 23 (4AD) Robert Wyatt – Shleep (Hannibal) Big Dipper – Supercluster—The...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Double-album Out Here and False Start, which featured Jimi Hendrix, may unnerve Love's folk-rock legions LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- They recorded one of the most influential albums of the late '60s in the folk-rocking Forever Changes, an album that took 20 years to be fully appreciated and has been recently reissued in a deluxe edition. But the band Love, fronted by tortured genius Arthur Lee, switched...
Pitchfork (Free subscription) | 04/25/2008
Arthur Lee's paranoia-soaked 1967 masterpiece is again re-issued and expanded-- just seven years after its previous rollout.
