Henry Owings is sunshine out of your ass
Who would have thought? Hey, I lived after interviewing Nick Cave (something a drunken British music press veteran confessed to me he'd never do again,…
Head Like A Kite to rock Neumo's with Truckasaurus and Slender Means
They're playing the Dim Mak Party at Cinescope in Los Angeles tonight, but Seattle's own souful electronica-rock pop art etc. band Head Like A Kite…
Chunklet's "Rock Bible" from the Sonic Boom pulpit this Sunday
Lock up your poseurs! Chunklet Magazine editor-publisher-comedy expert Henry Owings is coming to town, with his iconoclastic, no rock cliche left unoffended "Rock Bible: Unholy…
Grampall Jookabox tonight with PWRFL Power at Vera
There are very few artists who can make the dark night of the soul sound like a broken-down, probably murderous carnival ride, and Grampall Jukebox…
Oh When The Wind Comes Down
Run On Sentence poet-entertainer Dustin Hamman knows his way with an American tune, as deep as a bog and as fetching as the knee of…
Jesus Of Cool / Pure Pop For Now People
This is Nick Lowe's first solo album, released in 1978 after an excitement-filled misery ride with his boundaries-bouncing pub rock band Brinsley Schwarz, and around…
What Does It All Mean? 1983-2006 Retrospective
When this deep-dish outlaw electronic collage greatest anti-hits double album from old school plagiarist-producer, subversive publicist, transgressive after hours NYC DJ, and rabid record collector…
War Elephant
John McCauley was another 18 year-old bedroom cassette expressionist in Providence, RI in 2004 when he discovered Hank Williams, Sr. A greatest hits compilation of…
Sound Unbound
This is a thick, encyclopedic collection of essays about aesthetics, by people who have a tendency to take structural forms (pop songs, soul music, genre…
SIFF Halloween Week Peaks With "Dr. Caligari"
There's a whole lot of good scariness going on at SIFF CInema this week, beginning tonight at 7 PM with "The Wolfman" (the 1941 classic),…