Scott Biram is a really scary dude. Your seventh-grader will be all over that grossly dead dog on the cover, but the contents might give the kid nightmares. Life as Biram sings it is nothing but trouble: “The trouble with […]
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If youve missed Sparklehorse (its been five years since Mark Linkous last release), Mint could tide you over. In the hands of Sparklehorse producer John Morand, Mints opener The Lake sounds like a lost track from Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot. But Morand also […]
Defined by the rhythm of the road, the Vulgar Boatmen’s music traveled two-lane blacktop through a midwestern landscape. Never mind the lyrics, the beats were like pistons firing. The Tortoise side project Pullman, by contrast, was ideal for freeway driving […]
Josh Ritter says his new album, The Animal Years, reflects his last few years living like a hunter-gatherer: Try to eat, try to sleep, drive to the next town, set up, play music, move on, try to eat again. There […]
I am part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro’ Gleams that untravell’d world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move. –Alfred Lord Tennyson, “Ulysses” “It’s not like we’re abandoning […]
The word most often used to describe Friends Of Dean Martinez music is “cinematic,” but of all the movies you could imagine them scoring, The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari may not head the list. In the classic silent genre, you […]
Everything I know about country music, I learned from Heather’s Li’l Country Calendar. Well, darned near. For instance, not until I acquired my first did I know that on March 16, 1974, Roy Acuff showed Richard Nixon how to yo-yo […]
It seemed like courting catastrophe: Record ten songs with seventeen musicians, mostly unrehearsed, live to two-track, in two days. There was a time, though, when records were made exactly that way, and Chris Mills argues that those were the best […]
Come back Joan Baez, come back to us now. She may have been omitted from Steve Earle’s invocations in “Christmas In Washington”, but when she sings that song, it’s as if she’s watched her own life’s work crumble and she’s […]
Join Coinman wants to talk about his song “The Hero”. Although he’s never enlisted, “The Hero” is his war experience. Having found the place from which to write it, he’s haunted by it, like a crisis he can’t quite seem […]
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