Ira Kantor’s Vinyl Confessions: Get Out What’s Inside Of You! (“Can You Tell Me...
Photo above courtesy of Armando@kinetic-image.com
One word I’ve found to be synonymous with the COVID-19 pandemic is “routine.”
Even as lockdowns begin to ease, there’s still not much I can find myself...
Ira Kantor’s Vinyl Confessions: One-Take Wonders – The Knack’s Supposed Sophomore Jinx
Photos courtesy of Prescott Niles
Their journey has been depicted as both a Cinderella story and one of music’s most epic fails.
Yet there can be no denying that for (at...
Ira Kantor’s Vinyl Confessions: Still Alive ~ Baby, Just Take Another Look (At Clover)
Photos courtesy of Alex Call
In 1977, right before punk becomes the zeitgeist musical movement in the UK and the states, a Bay Area-based six-piece band took one last mighty...
Ira Kantor’s Vinyl Confessions: Bird On A Desire Wire
There’s a notable omission from the acclaimed documentary 20 Feet from Stardom.
Cidny Bullens should qualify for cast inclusion simply based on the fact he launched his career backing up...
Ira Kantor’s Vinyl Confessions: “AHORA!” (Carmen’s Celestial Masterwork)
Photo Courtesy of David Randall-Goddard
Carmen
Fandangos In Space
A few years back, Rolling Stone published its list of the Top 50 prog rock albums of all-time, spanning multiple regions, degrees of...
Ira Kantor’s Vinyl Confessions: 10cc Attains High Art (For Art’s Sake)
Photos courtesy of Glass Onion PR
Reflect back on the great 1970s British bands and you’ll see 10cc more than measures up to their competition.
Equal parts irreverent and intellectual, the...
Ira Kantor’s Vinyl Confessions: Oh Doctors!
Photos courtesy of Jeff Severson
For a brief shining moment within the new wave era, one group hailing out of Washington, D.C. came, saw, conquered, and went completely overlooked.
Yet a listen...
Ira Kantor’s Vinyl Confessions: Billy Cobham’s Vital Transformation ~ Billy Cobham’s ‘Spectrum’
Photo Courtesy of Billy Cobham
Billy Cobham
Spectrum
Billy Cobham became a legend well before releasing his debut solo album. Prior to 1973, the Panamanian drummer by way of New York cut...
Ira Kantor’s Vinyl Confessions: I Want Candi!
Photos courtesy of Bill Carpenter and Mario Casselli
It goes without question that one of music’s most seminal anthems depicting necessary assertion and cathartic independence is Gloria Gaynor’s 1979 classic “I...
Ira Kantor’s Vinyl Confessions: Discovering Japan
Late in 2021, revered Japanese label Nippon Columbia released a compilation album entitled TOKYO GLOW, which explores city pop, funk, and soul from Japanese artists recorded in the late...
