Author Archive
19 Apr 2009
Album Review: Rupert Wates — Coast to Coast: Postcards from America
Coast to Coast is full of pleasant, NPR-circuit, inoffensive story-songs that put the focus squarely on the vocals and lyrics. The instrumentation floats by, supporting the melody but never calling […]
18 Apr 2009
Album Review: War of Ages — Fire from the Tomb
Onward Christian soldiers! War of Ages’ latest offering, Fire from the Tomb may be the worst thing I have ever heard, and that’s saying a lot (I saw Styx on […]
17 Apr 2009
Album Review: Vaeda — State of Nature
The debut full-length from this trio is tightly and expertly played, passionately sung, flawlessly produced…and boring as hell. There’s not a single thing here we haven’t heard a hundred times […]
16 Apr 2009
Album Review: Under the Influence of Giants — s/t
I really wanted to like this album. The buzz had it sounding like the best work of Electric Light Orchestra and The Bee Gees (assumedly the “giants” referred to in […]
15 Apr 2009
EP Review: UKZ — Radiation
UKZ represents the first recorded work from Eddie Jobson (violin/keyboard with King Crimson, Roxy Music, UK and others) in many years. The debut EP, Radiation is four songs spread out […]
14 Apr 2009
Album Review: Tomahawk — Anonymous
Guest Review by Annelise Kopp I’d call this more of a science experiment than an art project. Tomahawk’s release, Anonymous, aimed at adding an edge to cultural Native American hymns, […]
13 Apr 2009
Album Review: The Academy Is… — Almost Here
Hey, kids! Great news: Fall Out Boy has a new album out! Okay, I kid. Really, I do. It’s actually Almost Here, the not-new album from The Academy Is… (I’m […]
12 Apr 2009
Album Review: Sucka Brown — Extra Medium
Upon hearing its drums-and-shouted-vocal leadoff, one could be forgiven for guessing that Extra Medium, the debut album by Boston-based Sucka Brown, is the latest white hip-hop act. That guess, however, […]
11 Apr 2009
Album Review: Tori Sparks — Under This Yellow Sun
A singer/songwriter with a guitar, Tori Sparks manages to avoid the misstep of sounding like every other coffeehouse-circuit singer. Her tight songwriting and playing, coupled with interesting arrangements and high […]
10 Apr 2009
Album Review: Darin Schaffer — s/t
Let’s face facts: unless you, gentle reader, are trolling through this reviews section to check out what some middle aged pseudo-hipster has to say about some major release like The […]