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…
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…
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…
Get Good Or Stay Bad
Get Good Or Stay Bad is the debut full-length album by The Cops, a new band made up of Mike Jaworski and John Randolph from…
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,…
Middle Finger Romance
"My first teenage romance was a middle finger romance. A middle finger romance. A middle finger romance." So goes the chorus to the title track…
Willing Victim
This is a live video of a Lydia Lunch performance commissioned by the "Festival des Masochismus" in Graz, Austria, in June 2003. It was filmed…
Ultimatum
The Long Winters' long-awaited follow-up to 2003's critically-smothered full-length When I Pretend To Fall is just a handful of studio songs and two live glimpses…
Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables
Manifesto Records has reissued the Dead Kennedys' genre-spawning, ultimate rock and punk debut, twenty-five years after its initial release, re-mastered with assistance by guitarist extraordinaire…