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…
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…
Tonight's Recommended Show: Flash Hawk Parlor Ensemble at the Crocodile
Tonight at the Crocodile, behold the power of Chris Funk and his ensemble of cunning accomplices as they take over the room with their part rock…
LEARN: The Songs Of Phil Ochs
The artistic schism comes down to this: Ben Barnett of Kind of Like Spitting is the Phil Ochs to Conor Oberst's Bob Dylan. Will this…
In the Red
The clarion call for the half melancholic-folk, half fiery noise-pop of Kind of Like Spitting's In The Red was last summer's mini-album LEARN, a tributary…
Wind-Up Canary
We live in a postmodern world. Nothing exists without the context of the reader and the writer. With that, I feel I must disclose a…
AstroPOP! for December 2005
Your monthly imaginary horoscope told in album reviews! December 2005 AstroPOP! is brought to you with musical reviews by Chris Estey. Sagittarius (November 22 -…