I’m driving home last night at dusk, it being just dark enough to outline black, rolling hills against a not-quite-as-black sky and a song comes on the radio and I almost drove off the road— not because it shocked me […]
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A few years ago, the Curtis Mayflower put out an album titled Everything Beautiful Is Under Attack and I found it intriguing (and damn good)— enough to have written this: “Who are The Curtis Mayflower? I first heard of them […]
I’ve been writing music reviews for some time now and one thing is certain. You write long enough, people find you and send music unsolicited. Some are revelation, some are bust, but most are shades of gray, running on one cylinder […]
More two reviews in one than a comparative analysis, really. A simple, dry bonehead rundown of music in its most technical (read, emotional) aspects. If I was a mathematician, this would be numbers; a computer programmer, 1’s and 0’s; a […]
When you listen to music as much as I do, you become jaded. Standard music (or mainstream, as I like to call it) usually marks songs for the scrap heap if only because the mind hears nothing new. You begin […]
When I moved to Seattle from San Diego back in ’78, I knew I was leaving a stronghold of the new folk and bluegrass movement which was beginning to take hold in the southwest. SD had just begun to embrace […]
Lost Leaders? Essentially, though they are a full band, they are two— Byron Isaacs and Peter Cole. I say two because they are the core of the band, responsible for music and direction. I met Isaacs a number of years […]
This just in. I am an idiot. Not out of choice but out of laziness. For a number of years now, friends have been telling me about The Sadies— how much I would like them, how good they were, how […]
No one writes or sings like Tom Mank. No one. He is historian, poet, and a keeper of pasts and futures. He writes of and for everyman and every man as if every moment matters. In tones of sepia, glancing […]
Toronto Sound? Never heard of it though I had heard it without knowing. The Julian Taylor Band plays it, according to some sources, and after hearing them they can call it whatever they want as far as I’m concerned. The […]
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