Features
Thursday, March 13 2008
Various Artists: City of Dreams
This collection spreads piano, blues, street beats, and slippery funk over four discs that are as joyous and imperfect as the Crescent City itself.
Friday, October 19 2007
Monty Python's Matching Tie and Handkerchief
Humor is a funny thing. Here to prove it are three Monty Python albums, revealing the revolutionary constructs of their work, the dangers of self-parody, and, well, something completely different.
Monday, August 27 2007
Wyndham Lewis: The Irascible Enemy
Wyndham Lewis brought a scintillating intellect to his artistic endeavors. If only we could let him loose on the majority culture of our time.
Friday, August 24 2007
Howard Devoto: Jerky Versions of The Dream
Erudite perspectives on the romantic dream from a shape-shifting man-insect who left punk before we knew it existed. Awkwardness has never sounded so varied, cinematic, stupid and sexual.
Thursday, July 5 2007
Carry on Compressing!: Joe Meek and 1960s Britain
Joe Meek’s pioneering genius will not be forgotten, but overexposure to his work is like living in a hall of mirrors, on four hours sleep, tequila, and cotton candy.
The Gubernatorial Candidates [New Orleans] [7.May.07]
Reviews
Thursday, February 9 2012
The Caretaker: An Empty Bliss Beyond This World
Stalactites in the canyons of your mind.
Tuesday, January 31 2012
The Gallantiers: Red in Tooth & Claw
Rock 'n' roll ain't dead; you're just asleep.
Wednesday, January 11 2012
Tarwater: Inside the Ships
In the spirit of Can, Faust and D.A.F., Tarwater do their own thing.
Thursday, December 1 2011
Sun City Girls: Gum Arabic
Radical ethno-foragers leave yet more clues for hapless public to escape ever decreasing Western pop-rock circles.
Botanical Bullets: We Bleed Fluorescent [9.Oct.11]
June & Jean Millington: Play Like a Girl [4.Oct.11]
Sanso-Xtro: Fountain Fountain Joyous Mountain [25.Aug.11]
Stian Westerhus: Pitch Black Star Spangled [9.May.11]
Basil Kirchin: Primitive London [14.Apr.11]
The Vegetable Orchestra : Onionoise [6.Apr.11]
Christian Marclay: Graffiti Composition [17.Mar.11]
Microphonies: Time Kills [19.Jan.11]
Piano Red: The Lost Atlanta Tapes [3.Jan.11]
Pale Sketcher: Jesu: Pale Sketches Demixed [13.Dec.10]
Burnt Ones : Black Teeth & Golden Tongues [10.Dec.10]
Bill Wells & Stefan Schneider: Pianotapes [1.Dec.10]
Orange Juice: Coals to Newcastle [16.Nov.10]
Judith Berkson: Oylam [8.Nov.10]
Motorpsycho: Heavy Metal Fruit [9.Sep.10]
Potpie: Potpie Plays the Classics [24.Aug.10]
The Shapes: The Shapes [4.Aug.10]
Murder Ford Monument: Murder Ford Monument [19.Jul.10]
Russell Haswell: Wild Tracks [14.Jul.10]
Xeno & Oaklander : Sentinelle [13.Jun.10]
William Nowik: Pan Symphony in E Minor [16.May.10]
Jean-Philippe Collard-Neven: Incidental Music [14.Apr.10]
Umberto Echo: Dub the World [13.Apr.10]
Channel One: Sound to Light [5.Apr.10]
Nellie Mckay: Normal As Blueberry Pie [2.Apr.10]
Get Back Guinozzi: Carpet Madness [14.Jan.10]
Pugwash: Giddy [15.Dec.09]
Peter Mulvey : Letters From A Flying Machine [10.Dec.09]
Starving Weirdos: Into an Energy [5.Oct.09]
Dan Zanes: The Welcome Table [15.Sep.09]
Henry's Funeral Shoe: Everything's For Sale [24.Jun.09]
Meanderthals: Desire Lines [15.Jun.09]
Zukanican: The Stumbling Block [14.Jun.09]
Serge Gainsbourg: Histoire De Melody Nelson [15.May.09]
Soil & "Pimp" Sesssions: Planet Pimp [30.Apr.09]
I Am Robot and Proud: Uphill City [23.Mar.09]
IfIHadAHifi: Fame By Proxy [12.Feb.09]
Robin Guthrie: 3:19 [18.Dec.08]
Folklore: Carpenter's Falls [15.Dec.08]
Alexander Tucker : Portal [2.Dec.08]
The Ettes: Look At Life Again Soon [30.Nov.08]
Juana Molina: Un Dia [24.Nov.08]
Various Artists: Peace (for mom) [7.Oct.08]
Harrisons: No Fighting In The War Room [30.Sep.08]
The Low Anthem: Oh My God, Charlie Darwin [26.Sep.08]
Matt Bauer: The Island Moved in the Storm [22.Sep.08]
The Subliminator: Rake [18.Sep.08]
Laika and the Cosmonauts: Cosmopolis [16.Sep.08]
Computer vs. Banjo: Computer vs. Banjo [25.Aug.08]
Issa Bagayogo: Mali Koura [22.Aug.08]
Karen Dalton: Green Rocky Road [22.Jul.08]
Norma Winstone: Distances [22.Jul.08]
Various Artists: Victrola Favorites [1.Jul.08]
Herman Dune: I Wish That I Could See You Soon [26.Jun.08]
Pia Fraus: After Summer [25.Jun.08]
Roger Ruskin Spear: Electric Shocks + [20.May.08]
Gavin Bryars: The Sinking of the Titanic [15.May.08]
Miwa Gemini: This Is How I Found You [15.Apr.08]
Folklore: The Ghost of H.W. Beaverman [14.Apr.08]
Joe Higgs: Life of Contradiction [4.Apr.08]
Marc Wilkinson: Blood on Satan's Claw [3.Apr.08]
Murmur: Fermata [18.Mar.08]
Suzy Mangion: The Other Side of the Mountain [12.Feb.08]
Maximilian Hecker: Live Radio Sessions [6.Feb.08]
No Neck Blues Band: Live At Kens Electric Lake [17.Jan.08]
Various Artists: Now We Are Ten [7.Jan.08]
Hoax Funeral: Pour Away The Ocean [18.Dec.07]
Eric Malmberg: Verklighet & Beat [11.Dec.07]
Lord Infamous: The Man, The Myth, The Legacy [11.Dec.07]
Pink Floyd: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn [7.Dec.07]
Loren Connors: As Roses Bow [5.Dec.07]
Mono: Gone [26.Nov.07]
Judee Sill: Live in London [21.Nov.07]
Richard Youngs: Autumn Response [2.Nov.07]
The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Live at Monterey [26.Oct.07]
John Wolfington: American Dreamsicle [19.Oct.07]
Wooden Shjips: Wooden Shjips [18.Oct.07]
Jakob Olausson: Moonlight Farm [12.Oct.07]
Burnt Friedman: First night Forever [9.Oct.07]
Filmic: Peacock People [4.Oct.07]
Ingrid Michaelson: Girls and Boys [3.Oct.07]
Celephais: I Am Kuranes [24.Sep.07]
Fog: Ditherer [20.Sep.07]
Sir Richard Bishop: Polytheistic Fragments [18.Sep.07]
Young Marble Giants: Colossal Youth [14.Sep.07]
A Hawk And A Hacksaw And The Hun Hangar Ensemble: A Hawk And A Hacksaw And The Hun Hangar Ensemble [12.Sep.07]
Bleach 03: The Head That Controls Both Right And Left Sides Eats Meat And Slobbers Even Today [10.Sep.07]
Colleen: Les Ondes Silencieuses [10.Sep.07]
The Quavers: Lit By Your Phone [20.Aug.07]
Edward Ka-Spel: Dream Logik Part One [15.Aug.07]
Two Loons For Tea: Nine Lucid Dreams [13.Aug.07]
Vinson, Eddie Cleanhead: Kidney Stew Is Fine [3.Aug.07]
Mr Geoffrey & JD Franzke: be comin [24.Jul.07]
Archipelago: Images of Popular Deities [13.Jul.07]
Mogwai: Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait [29.Jun.07]
Alasdair Roberts: The Amber Gatherers [14.Jun.07]
Garrison Keillor: When I Get Home: Songs [31.May.07]
Charlie Rich: The Essential Charlie Rich [11.May.07]
Aufgehoben: Messidor [8.May.07]
Avey Tare & Kria Brekkan: Pullhair Rubeye [4.May.07]
Dragon or Emperor: Dragon or Emperor [27.Mar.07]
John Peel & Sheila: The Pig's Big 78s [9.Mar.07]
The Residents: Freak Show [20.Feb.07]
O.M.F.O.: We Are the Shepherds [9.Jan.07]
