Features
Wednesday, September 23 2009
Jack on Fire: Jeffrey Lee Pierce, 1958–1996
He was as unlikely a candidate to don the mantle of rock and roll cliché as anyone; he was just a child's drawing of abject gloom, a stocky fireplug frame, dark, insomniac eyes skittering beneath the damp straw tangle of his anime-angular hair, an upside-down sorrow-mouth.
Monday, October 4 2004
Spawning Ground
In this ancient place of giant ferns and cedars, it seems the dead outnumber the living; the living fall away too quietly, too easily, taken away by stealth. There is tremendous natural beauty here, but its hold is tenuous, like moss clinging to rotting bark that will ultimately break and sink into the forest floor.
Monday, September 15 2003
"Everyone I Know Goes Away in the End": A Tribute to Johnny Cash
Not a great lover or follower of country music -- hey, what could a bunch of twangy bejeweled cowpokes say to me, a snotty punk brat from Manchester, England, right?
Reviews
Thursday, March 24 2005
Stars: Set Yourself on Fire
There is nothing vague about the sweet ache running like candy stripes throughout the confectioner's swirl of their endearing electro chamber pop.
Tuesday, February 1 2005
Low: The Great Destroyer
The Duluth trio have confounded us again, which is a good thing of course. Virtually absent on The Great Destroyer are the spare, minimalist daubs of intimate beauty with which they're so closely associated, and yet, nonetheless, it wades through a kind of dark, tumultuous resplendence all its own.
Tuesday, July 27 2004
The Mountain Goats: We Shall All Be Healed
Mountain Goats have just added a further chapter in an ongoing saga of (micro) relationships examined against a backdrop of (macro) global concern, We Shall All Be Healed being the most explicit yet.
Wednesday, April 21 2004
The Cooper Temple Clause + Calla: 27 March 2004: Richards on Richards - Vancouver
At its most arresting, the music of Calla hums with tension along the line between polarities.
