“DD Review: Camera Obscura – Look to the East, Look to the West.”
Score: 1/10 Camera Obscura were kind of the darlings of the indie scene circa 2007, with their breakthrough LP Let’s Get out of This Country still standing as a classic in cutesy, steel-guitar-laden folk-pop. In fact, this LP helped them score a big deal with Merge Records, judging by the concurrent events. And that, I … Read more“DD Review: Camera Obscura – Look to the East, Look to the West.”
“DD Review: The Jesus and Mary Chain – Glasgow Eyes.”
Score: 5.5/10 What started out in the 1980s as a half-demented pop foursome in Glasgow He**-bent on making your ears bleed with guitar feedback (infiltrated the mixes on infinitely catchy songs, curiously enough) is now just a duo, composed of original members and blood brothers William and Jim Reid. True to form, Glasgow Eyes is … Read more“DD Review: The Jesus and Mary Chain – Glasgow Eyes.”
“DD Review: The Black Keys – Ohio Players.”
Score: 10/10 One of the heartbreaking things to me about this new Black Keys release, Ohio Players, on which track one is entitled “This is Nowhere”; is that the Black Keys’ place of origin of Akron, Ohio is actually really beautiful. It’s located in Ohio’s Eastern half, among a copious litany of rolling hills and … Read more“DD Review: The Black Keys – Ohio Players.”
“Dolby’s Rupees: Beck – The Information”
Sure, most Beck fans already know The Information rocks. It came out back in a time when the event of an artist like Beck doling a new release still created a BUZZ around town, like your favorite team making the championship, or an eclipse, or whatever. Probably more than any other instance, the luke-warm Pitchfork … Read more“Dolby’s Rupees: Beck – The Information”
“DD Review: Pearl Jam – Dark Matter.”
Score: 9/10 In my review of Pearl Jam’s 2020 “effort” Gigaton, I made the remark that not only did it fall well short of standard, but it represented a time to hit the panic button — that to repeat the present error of forced, contrived emotion and reductive song structures would be essentially to kill … Read more“DD Review: Pearl Jam – Dark Matter.”
“Takeaways from My Disillusioning Little Pilgrimmage to Downtown Dayton, Ohio”
I have a weird request for all readers of this site. I want you to familiarize yourselves with Dayton, Ohio. Of course, I am mostly just joking, but, in general, we bloggers would mostly extol the idea of having a readership which could readily name the three most important bands from Dayton — Brainiac, The … Read more“Takeaways from My Disillusioning Little Pilgrimmage to Downtown Dayton, Ohio”