AstroPOP! for November 2005
Your monthly imaginary horoscope told in album reviews!November 2005 AstroPOP! is brought to you with musical reviews by igDana, igLiz, and imaginary marcel. Scorpio (October…
Oh You're So Silent Jens
More from the Swedish Pop Renaissance. Jens Lekman doesn't sound like the Legends or Acid House Kings, but he has a mysterious charm of his…
Over and Over
"You're the only one I wanna do," lead vocalist Keith Slettedahl leers on the paisley-peachy second track of The 88's Over and Over, cushioned by…
Rehearsing My Choir
Typically, when promotional material for an album uses the phrase "as much musical theatre as concept album," I get the screaming heebie-geebies. My mind conjures…
Invisible
In an ever-converging world of art, music and video (see the video iPod), bands producing the multimedia experience of sound are become more common and…
Tales from a Brave Ulysses
XXIV. "Explosions in the Mind"I was in Chicago on the phone with a friend of mine in D.C. The friend in D.C. is originally from…
Let It Die
Amongst my circle of friends, Leslie Feist seems to illicit two types of responses, either "Oh my word, I love Feist and want to be…
TIG on KEXP for October 2005
It's been eight months since our first monthly KEXP guest appearance on Audioasis and we'd been wondering when we'd get paired with the illustrious Sean…
The Small Change
Sometimes the best records come from bands that are difficult to place descriptors in front of. While the self-titled second record from The Small Change…
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,…