Score: 8/10 . Lots of things are deceptive, and deviant from the typical track of music, about Joan Torres, and what they do here with Of the Musical. First of all, Joan Torres (a guy) and his band made a path from Puerto Rico all the way to San Francisco to embark on projects in […]
Score: 6/10 . Teenage Fanclub has always scared me a little bit. No, they don’t wear masks and wield machetes at my face, no, they don’t even make loud music or exhibit aggressive behavior. I guess it’s just their level of FEELING — things which creep on you listening to an album like the atom-splitting […]
Score: 7.5/10 . As the press release for Strange Storm indicates, the album “explores (various) themes,” political themes, to be exact, and as we all know, this can be somewhat of a froggy situation. Music is obviously not discursive, in other words, it’s physical, so when I hear these claims of thematic treatment in it […]
Score: 6.5/10 . Ah, New York. The land of John Cage, the land of recent film While We’re Young and “facebook experiments.” This is from where we get the reinventions: this is where we get expression which scoffs at the notion of “product,” and has everything to do, typically, with ripe, contemporary human innovation. “Tiled […]
Score: 8.5/10 . Jesus, googling and finding an article you read about Led Zeppelin is fu**ing impossible. But the upside is, you find a bunch of new cool articles in attempting to do so. They’ll pop up taking various forms, always utilizing that handsome craft of the Zoso symbols logo, or that old, un-envisaged man […]
Score: 7.5/10 . Eventually, I guess trumpet players just get used to playing second mason, and the title of the first song “No More Drama” should give you an idea of Mac Gollehon’s personality, or disposition, at work here. In this age of emcees, when we often get a laundry list of people’s personal problems […]
Score: 8/10 . Sometimes it’s the most hopeless romantics who end up deriving the most valuable wisdom, even should it be false, and the state of being hypnotized is probably often useful in the achievement of BEING hypnotic. Enter Chris Wirsig, who hails from San Francisco — the end of the continent. It’s a city […]
Score: 7/10 . With Rave Noir, we have electronic/dance rock duo Flaunt’s sixth full-length album, a climactic feast which could be accused of just about anything but lack of variety. And oddly, as usually by this time in a band’s career we’re pinning down an exact m.o., they seem to have digressed from coherent dance […]