Freda Love Smith didn’t exactly set out to write a memoir about food and music, but by the time she’d finished casting about for ingredients for her book in her soul kitchen, she’d cooked up an entertaining set of stories […]
Freda Love Smith didn’t exactly set out to write a memoir about food and music, but by the time she’d finished casting about for ingredients for her book in her soul kitchen, she’d cooked up an entertaining set of stories […]
Bloomington, Indiana, five-piece the Mysteries Of Life are major-label refugees featuring members of Antenna, the Blake Babies and the Vulgar Boatmen. Distant Relative, their first album for their own label, is, quite adamantly, a pop record. Airy and earnest, it’s […]
“Nothing here is unfamiliar, but everything is remarkably new.” Or so reads the accompanying label-penned hype for the newest disc from Midwestern popsters Mysteries Of Life. Indeed: About six months ago, RCA sent out advance CDs of what was then […]
The Mysteries Of Life’s 1996 RCA debut, Keep A Secret, was one of the year’s craftiest, most enthralling slices of pop, burrowing under the skin with arrangements dominated by insistently strummed guitars and evocative cello, all serving a brilliant set […]
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