Underappreciated Album: Milk Cult April 11, 2008 Underappreciated Album: Milk Cult – Burn or Bury The early 1990s seemed to be a tough time for Boner Records, a somewhat small, Berkeley-based… Continue Reading
Underappreciated Album: Latimer April 11, 2008 Underappreciated Album: Latimer – LP Title With apologies to both greasy cheesesteaks and the cheesiness of the Dead Milkmen, I’ve got to be honest:… Continue Reading
Underappreciated Album: Scratch Acid April 11, 2008 Underappreciated Album: Scratch Acid – The Greatest Gift More people have probably seen Scratch Acid cited as an influence in interviews than have actually… Continue Reading
Underappreciated Album: Basto April 11, 2008 Underappreciated Album: Bastro – Diablo Guapo There is a brief pause – not long enough to even hide a breath – before David Grubbs… Continue Reading
Underappreciated Album: Cheer Accident April 11, 2008 Cheer-Accident, Enduring The American Dream (1997) There are few ensembles that can make noise sound both as mysterious and as strangely inviting as Cheer-Accident…. Continue Reading
Profile: The Lesser Birds of Paradise (2004) March 8, 2008 Mark Janka may have a gift for crafting frighteningly fragile acoustic lullabies, but, when it comes to spinning tales about his band’s enigmatic name,… Continue Reading
Profile: Jack Endino (2006) March 8, 2008 You know Jack Endino. If you consider yourself schooled in the noisy, garage-bred strains of indie-rock that made much of the 1980s and early… Continue Reading
Profile: Carrie Yury (2006) March 8, 2008 If you consider yourself prolific or a jack of all trades, you’ve never met Carrie Yury. The California-based artist’s work is the definition of… Continue Reading
Profile: Adam Gnade (2006) March 8, 2008 You don’t just ask Adam Gnade a question or plot a sure-footed route into the familiar territory of the Q&A back-and-forth, that sometimes-fluid, sometimes-stilted… Continue Reading
Concert Review: Wingdale Community Singers – June 24, 2005 February 23, 2008 Wingdale Community Singers Housing Works Used Book Cafe – New York, NY June 24, 2005 If record release parties represent a public birth for… Continue Reading
