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The Lost Album (Tollie / Sunset Blvd.). Review by Julius C. Lacking.

In order to locate the psychedelic rainbow treasure trove that is Joey Joesph, you will have to navigate and defeat countless auto-corrects.

Two artists look at fathers and sons - Doug Hoekstra experiences Springsteen on Broadway.

(I Can’t Get No) Stevie Jackson (Banchory Records). Review by Carl F Gauze.

Carl Gauze reviews 19 important people who died this year and just didn’t get the Ink they deserved. Spoiler alert: it was a bad year for Jacks.

Keep This Love Goin’ (Clang! / Big Notes). Review by Carl F Gauze.

How do you dethrone the “King of Pop”? Let the current king disappear to Bahrain and get sued for $7 million by an Arab sheik; take your kaleidoscopic and playful songs to California’s Westlake Studios where Michael Jackson recorded Thriller; or simply be a boy named Pop. Pop Levi goes 2 of 3 and emerges with Never Never Love, an album shot through with the ghosts of Prince, MJ, and R. Kelly. S D Green and the musical shape-shifter talk the process of Pop.

Matt Parish looks into the eyes of soul at a recent Leon Russell show.

Introducing (I and Ear). Review by Jen Cray.

Pennsylvania’s best-kept secret, a little band called Illinois , is about to go out on a large-scale U.S. tour with The Kooks. Their EP is one of Jen Cray’s latest mailbox treasures, so she called up singer/songwriter Chris Archibald for a chat.

Reunion (Fuel 2000). Review by Carl F Gauze.

HotSocky (Billtown USA). Review by – Gail Worley.

Ready Ready Set Go (Hollywood). Review by Stein Haukland.

Just Me (Davy Jones Productions). Review by James Mann.