Erick Mertz - Profiles
Vulgar Boatmen
Erick Mertz reflects on the musical career of cult American alternative rock band the Vulgar Boatmen, who have just had re-released three of their albums, 1989's 'You and Your Sister', 1992's 'Please Panic'and 1995's 'Opposite Sex' released on vinyl.
ELF
Erick Mertz examines the legacy of blues rock act Elf, the early band of Rainbow, Black Sabbath and Dio's Ronnie James Dio, whose 1974 second album 'Carolina County Ball'and 1975 third album 'Trying to Burn the Sun' have both been reissued by Cherry Red
Emerson Lake And Palmer
Erick Mertz examines double Cd reissues of Emerson Lake and Palmer's 1972 and 1973 albums, 'Trilogy' and 'Brain Salad Surgery'
Emerson Lake And Palmer
Erick Mertz reflects on Emerson, Lake and Palmer's reissues of their first three albums which have just been re-released in double CD editions
Scientists
With a new eighty track box set 'A Place Called Bad' having been just released of their music, Erick Mertz examines the immersive career of influential Australian post punks, the Scientists
Still in a Dream
Erick Mertz reflects on the memories that a bonanza of shoegaze classics enhances on a new five CD box set, 'Still in a Dream'
Everything But The Girl
Erick Mertz is by impressed dance pioneers Everything But The Girl's final two albums, 1996’s 'Walking Wounded' and 1999’s 'Temperamental', which have just been re-released in two CD editions, but finds dull the remixes that accompany them
Looper
Erick Mertz examines 'These Things', a career-defining box set from legendary Glaswegian genre benders, Looper