Golden Animals – Free Your Mind and Win a Pony (2008) review
Golden Animals - Free Your Mind and Win a Pony (2008) Free Your Mind And Win A Pony by Golden Animals, a power-pop duo who seem determined to...
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The Smoking Trees – TST (2015) review
The Smoking Trees - TST (Ample Play/Burger Records, 2015) Listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlNJ1NVt3eo With TST, The Smoking Trees have delivered a laid back breezy bit of relaxed sunshine pop, all laced...
Thelightshines – Now the Sandman Sings (2014) review
Thelightshines - Now the Sandman Sings (The Great Pop Supplement, 2014) Listen: http://www.thelightshinesband.com/now-the-sandman-sings/ On first listen, the shivers that ran down my spine, the visions that danced across the...
Various Artists – Dis Cover – Donna Regina As Recorded By (2015) review
Various Artists – Dis Cover – Donna Regina As Recorded By (Karaoke Kalk, 2015) With this, their twelfth album, Donna Regina [Günther and Regina Janssen] continue to evolve...
JAZZ CORNER Presents: Charles Mingus – ‘The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady’ (1963)
I probably shouldn’t be reviewing any Jazz for awhile, as I just laid down some remarks concerning Bitches Brew, and now it seems that everything is overshadowed by...
Steve Wynn – Sketches in Spain (2014) review
Steve Wynn - Sketches in Spain (Omnivore Records, 2014) Steve Wynn, late of the legendary band Dream Syndicate, and currently, seeming to be all things to all people,...
Wilco – Star Wars (2015) review
Wilco - Star Wars (dBpm Records, 2015) Listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n36fehFSiA Wilco have been a standup band for far longer than I care to remember, releasing consistently good product, though with...
The See See – Fountayne Mountain (2012) review
The See See - Fountayne Mountain (The Great Pop Supplement, 2012) Hailing from London of all places and not America ... The See See have refined and distilled...
Isotope 217° – The Unstable Molecule (1997) review
Isotope 217° - The Unstable Molecule (Thrill Jockey, 1997) Beginning as a side project for Rob Mazurek, and incorporating the likes of the legendary Jeff Parker, along with...
Messer Chups – Surf Riders From The Swamp Lagoon (2011) review
Messer Chups - Surf Riders From The Swamp Lagoon (2011) Listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmVx6tE7ijQ On Surf Riders From The Swamp Lagoon, Messer Chups, who hale from the land locked republic of...