Concert Review: Andrew Bird, Arvada Center, 8/9/11
There is something pretty magical about Colorado in the summer. That goes double for concerts in the quasi-outdoors. Arvada is a suburb to the northwest of Denver, and it’s a place where fields with horses are interspersed with strip malls. Crickets were audible during the performance — something Andrew Bird commented on tonight. “It sounds […]
Wow, That’s A Good Song: The Handsome Family, “Cathedrals”
I enjoy playing my favorite Handsome Family song for the unsuspecting. Or maybe on the unsuspecting. Whenever I take control of anything with speakers, it’s a fair bet that at least something you hear will be twangy. “Cathedrals” is no exception, and if you’ve never heard the song before, odds are — and this is […]
Recommended Reading: The Best Ever Death Metal Band In Baghdad
You know how every so often you run across something completely humbling that reminds you how good you have it and how lucky you are? Meet Acrassicauda, a metal band from Baghdad. You guys were going against everything there. Yes. Not only the government, the whole society. But we still did it. I don’t know […]
Album Review: Gillian Welch, “The Harrow & The Harvest”
Reviewers of Gillian Welch’s The Harrow & The Harvest seem to fall into two broad camps so far: reviewers who are delighted to get more of what they love about Welch’s music, and reviewers who expect Welch and Rawlings to evolve past what they’ve done for the last twenty years and who then express disappointment […]
The Gillian Welch Listening Party Adventure
I just got home from my local listening party for The Harrow & The Harvest, Gillian Welch’s album that’s out next week. (It doesn’t look like Chicago got one, so unless you’re traveling, looks like it’ll be another seven days of waiting.) I can’t do a full review based on what I heard — I […]
The Fine Art Of Disturbing The Guests With Your Racket
By Mel on July 21, 2011
There was a breakup a while ago, and the last straw was a Golden Smog song. More specifically, the last straw was the inappropriate commentary related to me and the Golden Smog song that he felt it necessary to make in front of our friends. I remember thinking, For the umpteenth time he’s taking this […]
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