0 February 16, 2009 Pop Marksmanship And Lyrical Sophistication: The Music Lovers’ Masculine, Feminine The last in what I call “The Twilight Triptych,” The Music Lovers’ third album Masculine, Feminine...
0 December 25, 2008 A Stunning Musical Polemic: Eric Corne’s Kid Dynamite And The Common Man Armed with the lippy snarl and lyrical smarts of a young Joe Jackson, singer/songwriter Eric Corne’s...
0 February 23, 2008 Moses In The Mosh Pit: The Shondes’ The Red Sea Brooklyn’s The Shondes have appeared on the scene like a slap in the tukhes out of...
0 October 2, 2007 Offering Your Demons The Adjacent Barstool: Michael McDermott’s Noise From Words Whatever happened to Michael McDermott? He came roaring out of Chicago in 1990-1991, all of 20...
0 September 11, 2007 The Succor And Hiss Of Kissing Saber Saws: Throbbing Gristle’s Part Two, The End “What is this shit?” Words forever embedded in my head, spoken in dire confusion by my freshman...
0 July 11, 2007 “Our eyes turn to glass and shine on blind…” Great Lakes Myth Society’s Compass Rose Banquet “Heydays are passing/Your house has been rented several times over by prettier girls,” sings Great Lakes...
0 July 10, 2007 The Beauty And Terror Of Nature Itself: Crowded House’s Time On Earth It’s easy to come back. The tricky part is what you do once you get there....
0 February 1, 2007 Breezy Pop With A Bold Stare: Astrid Williamson’s Day Of The Lone Wolf “We never should have kissed,” sings Astrid Williamson on “Superman 2,” a track from her new...
0 October 22, 2006 Ragged And Irresistible Hooks: The Kooks’ Inside In/Inside Out The Kooks’ debut Inside In/Inside Out is a wild bash of an album with all the...
0 October 12, 2006 Crushing Melancholia For The Misfit Army: The Dears Gang Of Losers “I hang out with all the pariahs,“ sings The Dears’ Murray Lightburn on “Ticket To Immortality”...