Strange Like We Are
Campfire OK's debut album Strange Like We Are is a smorgasbord of tasty sounds, slowly-simmered songs, and crackling good production. About a half dozen well-trained…
Some Of Us Are In This Together
I love and hate the bipolar skronk of Triumph of Lethargy Skinned Alive to Death. I have ever since I bought their "Diamonds In The…
Party Store
I love The Dirtbombs! Mick Collins leads one of the very best American bands ever, with superb playing from musicians like Zac Weedon (The Readies)…
The King Is Dead
As most semi-popular music fans know, the two oldest stories in the history of the rock album as "art" is actually the same one from…
Please Stand By
The pastoral pleasures of Brent Amaker and the Rodeo's third album Please Stand By are hard to resist, if you love either the mod 60s…
A Bird In The Opera House
Nick Jaina is a very accomplished and demiurgic Portland, OR-based singer-songwriter whose lyrically romantic scenarios luxuriate in diversely orchestrated carnival folk-pop. His stately and quietly…
Coming Home
Bloodshot Records, a label always known for high quality music as well as eclectic realness, has put out the new album by Steve Fisk and…
Broken Bow
Eux Autres has been releasing records since their first seven inch came out in 2003, and you can hear a band that grew up on…
Cabled: Let's see what's on the old demon box, ha ha
(This is the beginning installment of a column about getting cable turned back on after five years and watching regular television again. What has happened…
Body Talk
OMG! Yes, I freaking love Robin Miriam Carlsson, and have since her first eponymous release (as, um, Robyn) in the States and the 2007 sampler…