A Mix of New Music Found While Clearing Off Erik Gonzalez's Desk
(Somewhere deep within the TIG Fortress) Ah, there is nothing like that feeling you get when you have it all under control. Finally, I can…
Young Machetes
It's hard to believe that The Blood Brothers have been at it for nearly ten years. Back in about '98 they were a high school…
The Dust Of Retreat
On The Dust of Retreat, the first full length from Margot & The Nuclear So and So's, Singer-songwriter Richard Edwards creates an ambitious pastiche of…
Capture/Release
If I had a dime for every band from England that takes equal portions of Gang of Four, the Clash, and Public Image Limited and…
AstroPOP! for May-June 2006
Taurus (April 20 - May 20) Taurus is full of life, vivacious, often brilliant, but ultimately so healthy she may scare lovers with frail psyches.…
Sewed Soles
I was put off by The Greenhornes at first. Guitar player Craig Fox's vocals seemed fairly insouciant, like spat out phrases to add the right…
The Ballad of the Broken Seas
One of my favorite movies as a youth was the woefully underappreciated Wim Wenders film Until the End of the World. The messy, convoluted movie…
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 -…
Excerpts From The Diary of Todd Zilla
Jason Lytle keeps varying his facial hair arrangements, hiding in his apartment from the Modesto, California sun, testing his woman's patience with his addiction to…
Return the Gift
(On a dark Saturday afternoon Billy Bullock came over to my basement apartment and brought over a copy of the new Gang of Four album,…