I hope you’ve already seen The Good Place, because there’s a potential spoiler below. Near the end of the show’s final season, William Jackson Harper’s character, Chidi, and Kristen Bell’s Eleanor are discussing mortality, and Chidi shares a Buddhist conception […]
While the ghastly choice of moniker makes other such unfortunately-named groups — Jethro Tull, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Rilo Kiley — seem positively erudite by comparison, there’s nothing bumpkin-like about Clem Snide. Granted, frontman Eef Barzelay’s nasal vocal bleat may sound more […]
Initially, Soft Spot seems very much in sync with Clem Snide’s quizzically gorgeous, chamberesque efforts, Your Favorite Music and The Ghost Of Fashion, but the differences are no less striking for being subtle. Cello, prevalent on those records, appears on […]
Clem Snide formed in New Jersey in the early 90s, a full-bore punk band that gradually eased toward an edgy roots/country sound. By its 1998 debut, You Were a Diamond, the bands transformation from Replacements-tinged howl to Wilco-esque whisper was […]
Late afternoon, just starting to rain, and you have to make a conscious decision whether to turn on the light and continue working, or turn on the stereo and let darkness settle over the room. You Were A Diamond, the […]
