Summer lovin’, had me some jams!
I recommend all these tunes because apparently I can't stop playing 'em: here's a quick alphabetical assessments of what's been hummin' in my iPod on…
Desire Lines
It’s simply amazing to me that a group from the drizzly grey of Glasgow could consistently creates such effervescent, make-you-want-to-sing-along head-bopping pop music -- but…
Love's Not Impossible: My Top Ten Songs of 2012
We had to have some good tunes to get us through a year of watching a psychopathic plutocrat trying to pitch us back into the…
Visions
What's up, haterade-makers? Are you ready for the next Wavves or Coco Rosie to dump "comments" scorn on in this city of ciphers? Well, Claire…
Blues Funeral
With his bass-baritone register and emphasis on sordid narrative, Mark Lanegan bears many similarities to Tom Waits and Johnny Cash. But while you love their…
Beauty Parlor: hey, all you pretty things! {new record review column}
I'm going to start this new "album round up" for Three Imaginary Girls with the above recent You Tube video for Sean Rowe's "Jonathan": (1.)…
Stornoway, Zorbing, and a ticket giveaway
[video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-B8OAj9F7hI]One of my favorite albums of the year comes from the Oxford-based band Stornoway. It's an understatement to say they craft sumptuously understated melodies that…
High Violet
(The National plays with Okkervil River at the Concerts at the Marymoor in Redmond, WA on September 11, 2010.) I'm a latecomer to The…
Before Today
Before Today follows up Ariel Pink's previous two Haunted Graffiti projects (and becomes its own "thing" via its addition to his name) Worn Copy (2005)…
The Big Pink: it might get loud at Neumos Friday
Music from The Big Pink was the 1968 album from The Band. Robbie Furze and Milo Cordell know this, as their band's website is musicfromthebigpink.com. Yet,…