Three from the Stacks: French wailing, twee folk, and poppy surprises
I have finally caught up with SIFF madness and found three musical selections in the TIG stacks that are worthy of a shout-out. Hermetic Delight:…
Matthew Sweet and Summer Twins
{Apologies for the crappy cell phone pic, you guys!} Was this my most anticipated show of the year? So far—YES. I think it was. And…
Love At The Bottom Of The Sea
The usual is all here for The Magnetic Fields fans: Stephin Merritt with Claudia Gonson, Sam Davol, John Woo, Shirley Simms, Johny Blood, and Daniel Handler…
Perfect Sense
{Perfect Sense is screening at SIFF Cinema at the Uptown starting today, Friday, 2/17 - through Thursday, 2/23} A love story wrapped around a frightening Sci-Fi…
Blast from the Past: The Lightning Seeds
Remember these guys? I've been going through my piles of CDs lately because my harddrive crash caused me to lose about 80% of my iTunes…
Recommended show + free tickets: Damien Jurado at the Neptune {2/17}
Riveting, modern yet vintage-without-trying, just the right amount of haunted and desolate vibes while remaining full to the very seams. These are the notes from…
Month of May
One-half of this new musically-inclined duo has been a friend of mine for years: Celene Ramadan, AKA Leeni - so just to be clear, this…
A Cautionary Tale
First off, I have to confess that I picked up this CD simply because of its AMAZING cover, which is styled like an uber creepy…
Some Of Us Are In This Together
I love and hate the bipolar skronk of Triumph of Lethargy Skinned Alive to Death. I have ever since I bought their "Diamonds In The…
Cabled: Let's see what's on the old demon box, ha ha
(This is the beginning installment of a column about getting cable turned back on after five years and watching regular television again. What has happened…