30 Oct 2020
Album Review: Anton Barbeau — Manbird
If Todd Rundgren were a bit younger and a dash more underground/indie-inclined, he might resemble Anton Barbeau. Among other similarities, Ant shares with Todd a predilection for going his own […]
29 May 2020
Album Review: The Corner Laughers — Temescal Telegraph
Based in Redwood City, The Corner Laughers craft a brand of pop that’s sophisticated, clever, erudite and memorable – one that follows in the proud tradition of great songwriting artists […]
23 Apr 2020
Album Reviews: Various Artists — The Big Stir Singles Series
Back in the days when it still actually played music videos, MTV put together a promo clip featuring David Bowie. The Thin White Duke smiled rakishly at the camera and […]
23 Sep 2017
Hundred-word Reviews: September 2017
Time for some more hundred-word reviews; new music from many different genres. Linsey Alexander – Two Cats (Delmark) A lot of modern-day blues has a sterility that makes it the […]
13 Sep 2017
Album Review: Various Artists — Songs, Bond Songs
Andrew Curry‘s label has released an impressive clutch of tribute-type albums, including ones focusing on 80s pop, “lite rock” and so on. For the most part, the artists involved tend […]
10 Nov 2016
Album Mini-review: Allyson Seconds — Little World
File next to: Anton Barbeau, Corner Laughers Pop music has long featured engaging artists who don’t write their own material. Going back to perhaps the greatest of them all, Frank […]
28 Jun 2016
Album Mini-review: Anton Barbeau — Magic Act
Often swimming in the quirkier end of the power pop pool, the prolific Anton Barbeau most recently made a pair of albums fronting Three Minute Tease; there he applied his […]
04 Nov 2015
Anton Barbeau’s Traveling Magic Act, Part 3
Continued from Part Two… Anton Barbeau feels similarly about progressive rock. “At one point, I decided, ‘Oh, I don’t like that stuff at all.’ But not long ago on one […]
03 Nov 2015
Anton Barbeau’s Traveling Magic Act, Part 2
Continued from Part One… Once Anton Barbeau realized that the new album wouldn’t be a Three Minute Tease project, he “started looking around for other ways of doing it. I […]
02 Nov 2015
Anton Barbeau’s Traveling Magic Act, Part 1
From my point of view, it’s a strange world in which a recording artist can craft highly melodic, accessible tunes, release a long string of consistently well-regarded albums, and still […]
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