Michael Metivier has lived and worked everywhere from New Orleans to Chicago to New York to Boston. He currently lives in the Pioneer Valley of western Massachusetts, with his bride-to-be and two hilarious guinea pigs. He records and performs original songs under the name “Oweihops”.
Features
Monday, July 6 2009
My Michael
As an adult, I haven’t the foggiest idea of what a “King of Pop” is or does, but as a six-year-old, I was pretty sure Michael Jackson invented music.
Friday, April 3 2009
Pearl Jam's "Ten", Eighteen Years Later
Over the years, Sony Legacy has re-released countless albums, but rarely has it honored a record whose importance with regards to legacy has been debated since day one as Pearl Jam’s debut.
Friday, March 28 2008
The Lemonheads: It's A Shame About Ray: Collector's Edition
This 1992 classic, a commercial smash and artistic peak for the Lemonheads, wants another bit part in your life. A walk-on would be fine.
Wednesday, December 20 2006
Best Singer/Songwriter Albums of 2006
Dry lyrical wit, verbal playfulness, and somber epiphanies for the reluctantly mature: they're all part of Michael Metivier's best singer/songwriter albums of the year.
Wednesday, August 30 2006
Trouser Snakes on a Tour Plane: A Long Journey with Journey
Love or loathe them, Journey's songs are etched into our collective subconscious, and deeper than most of us would like to admit.
All City, All the Time [27.Sep.05]
My Backyard: An Interview With Nora O'Connor [1.Jan.95]
Reviews
Wednesday, September 9 2009
United Bible Studies: The Jonah
Sometimes, the blend of trad and psych can seem either too precious or too studied, but overall, The Jonah rings true.
Wednesday, September 9 2009
16 Horsepower: Secret South
Reissue of 16 Horsepower's long-out-of-print third album. It's not their best, but certainly worthy.
Monday, August 24 2009
Cub Country: Stretch That Skull Cover and Smile
Jeremy Chatelain writes and sings some fine melodies, high and lonesome, calm and mellow, and there isn’t a moment on the album that rings hollow or false.
Wednesday, August 19 2009
The Dry Spells: Too Soon For Flowers
Mystical, ethereal Californian folk-rock in the vein to make Mama Nicks proud.
Tuesday, July 21 2009
Sarah Jarosz: Song Up In Her Head
A captivating and assured debut by an 18-year-old bluegrass soon-to-be star.
Levon Helm: Electric Dirt [8.Jul.09]
Various Artists: Leaves of Life [5.Jul.09]
R.E.M.: Reckoning (Deluxe Edition) [26.Jun.09]
Elephant Micah: Exiled Magicians [17.Jun.09]
The Western States: Bye and Bye [14.Jun.09]
Red Heart the Ticker: Oh My! Mountains Below [2.Jun.09]
Arborea: House of Sticks [25.May.09]
Bob Dylan: Together Through Life [27.Apr.09]
Bill Callahan: Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle [17.Apr.09]
Neil Young: Fork in the Road [7.Apr.09]
The Bitter Tears: Jam Tarts in the Jakehouse [6.Mar.09]
Azita: How Will You? [26.Feb.09]
Modern Skirts: All of Us in Our Night [19.Feb.09]
Six Organs of Admittance: RTZ [13.Feb.09]
Scott Weiland: Happy in Galoshes [17.Dec.08]
Linda Perhacs: Parallelograms [11.Dec.08]
All City Affairs: Identity Theft [3.Nov.08]
Jonatha Brooke: The Works [21.Oct.08]
Jolie Holland: The Living and the Dead [10.Oct.08]
Mark Erelli: Delivered [26.Sep.08]
Catie Curtis: Sweet Life [22.Sep.08]
Haunt: The Deep North [11.Sep.08]
Belleisle: Longstanding [14.Aug.08]
The Thin Man: Spectres [6.Aug.08]
16 Horsepower: Live: March 2001 [31.Jul.08]
Antietam: Opus Mixtum [19.Jun.08]
Twilight Hotel: Highway Prayer [12.Jun.08]
Laura Cantrell: Trains and Boats and Planes [27.May.08]
The Wilders: Someone's Got to Pay [15.May.08]
Greg Laswell: How the Day Sounds [4.Apr.08]
R.E.M.: Accelerate [31.Mar.08]
The Grizzly Owls: By Night On My Bed [26.Feb.08]
Jed Speare: Sound Works 1982-1987 [4.Feb.08]
Orillia Opry: Lighthouse for Stragglers Eyes [16.Jan.08]
Black Swans: Change! [10.Jan.08]
The Pines: Sparrows in the Bell [3.Dec.07]
Magnolia Electric Co.: Sojourner [2.Nov.07]
Johnny Irion: Ex Tempore [24.Oct.07]
Iron & Wine: The Shepherd's Dog [27.Sep.07]
Vic Chesnutt: North Star Deserter [18.Sep.07]
Alina Simone: Placelessness [13.Sep.07]
Michelle Shocked: ToHeavenURide [6.Sep.07]
Great Lakes Myth Society: Compass Rose Bouquet [27.Aug.07]
Percy Farm: The Ends in the Beginning [15.Aug.07]
Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem: Big Old Life [13.Aug.07]
Copper Kettle: Coal Rabbit [8.Aug.07]
Meg Baird: Dear Companion [8.Aug.07]
Spouse: Relocation Tactics [6.Aug.07]
Ben + Vesper: All This Could Kill You [20.Jul.07]
Tuatara: East of the Sun [11.Jul.07]
Jenny Owen Youngs: Batten the Hatches [6.Jul.07]
Track a Tiger: We Moved Like Ghosts [2.Jul.07]
Chris Bathgate: A Cork Tale Wake [22.Jun.07]
Mark Olson: The Salvation Blues [4.Jun.07]
Steven Mark: Racing Grey [1.Jun.07]
Robbie Fulks: Revenge! [1.Jun.07]
Lewis & Clarke: Blasts of Holy Birth [31.May.07]
Madagascar: Goodbye East, Goodbye West [29.May.07]
Wilco: Sky Blue Sky [14.May.07]
Haunt: As Blue As Your Dying Eyes [27.Apr.07]
Winterpills: The Light Divides [27.Apr.07]
Lou Barlow: Mirror the Eye [18.Apr.07]
The Zincs: Black Pompadour [30.Mar.07]
Grant-Lee Phillips: Strangelet [28.Mar.07]
Low: Drums and Guns [22.Mar.07]
Andrew Bird: Armchair Apocrypha [19.Mar.07]
Rivulets: You Are My Home [8.Mar.07]
Riviera: Capital [7.Mar.07]
Northern Alliance: For the Grains of Sand [6.Mar.07]
Six Parts Seven: Casually Smashed to Pieces [1.Mar.07]
Paula Frazer & Tarnation: Now Its Time [28.Feb.07]
Eleni Mandell: Miracle of Five [13.Feb.07]
Chicken on a Raft: Chicken on a Raft [6.Feb.07]
Birch Book: Fortune & Folly [29.Jan.07]
Paleo: Paleos Song Diary [26.Jan.07]
Julie Doiron: Woke Myself Up [25.Jan.07]
The Shins: Wincing the Night Away [19.Jan.07]
Kristin Hersh: Learn to Sing Like a Star [17.Jan.07]
Denison Witmer: Safe Away / Are You a Sleeper? [17.Jan.07]
Dave Fischoff: The Crawl [16.Jan.07]
Norfolk & Western: The Unsung Colony [2.Jan.07]
Rick Brockner: Black Mountain Brew [20.Dec.06]
Lewis & Clarke: Live On WPRB [14.Dec.06]
Pit Er Pat: Pyramids [14.Dec.06]
Anders Parker: Anders Parker [27.Nov.06]
Third Wheel: On Account of the Atmosphere [21.Nov.06]
Joanna Newsom: Ys [12.Nov.06]
My Brightest Diamond: Bring Me the Workhorse [31.Oct.06]
Rural Electric: The Road To Hell Is Paved [16.Oct.06]
Congress of Starlings: Albedo [12.Oct.06]
Wovenhand: Mosaic [12.Oct.06]
Hairshirt: Lover Politician [6.Oct.06]
All City Affairs: Bees [5.Oct.06]
Catfish Haven: Tell Me [28.Sep.06]
Paul Burch: East to West [26.Sep.06]
Magnolia Electric Co.: Fading Trails [19.Sep.06]
Kerosene Kondors: New American Standards [15.Sep.06]
Logan Square: Pessimism & Satire [11.Sep.06]
Ponies in the Surf: Ponies on Fire [31.Aug.06]
The Mountain Goats: Get Lonely [24.Aug.06]
Kaki King: ...Until We Felt Red [18.Aug.06]
Counting Crows: New Amsterdam [8.Aug.06]
The Happies: If We Were Really Here [3.Aug.06]
Feist: Open Season [18.Jul.06]
Mia Doi Todd: The Ewe and the Eye [12.Jul.06]
Grant-Lee Phillips: Nineteeneighties [6.Jul.06]
The Handsome Family: Last Days of Wonder [16.Jun.06]
Ken Waldman: All Originals, All Traditionals [13.Jun.06]
Jolie Holland: Springtime Can Kill You [12.Jun.06]
Neil Young: Living With War [8.May.06]
Deadstring Brothers: Starving Winter Report [2.May.06]
Pearl Jam: Pearl Jam [1.May.06]
Jandek: Khartoum Variations [25.Apr.06]
Canasta: We Were Set Up [13.Apr.06]
Liz Durrett: The Mezzanine [29.Mar.06]
Jason Collett: Idols of Exile [27.Mar.06]
Loose Fur: Born Again in the USA [22.Mar.06]
Half-handed Cloud: Halos & Lassos [6.Mar.06]
New Radiant Storm King: The Steady Hand [13.Feb.06]
Bob Dylan: The Best of Bob Dylan [22.Nov.05]
Johnny Cash: The Legend of Johnny Cash [4.Nov.05]
Iron & Wine / Calexico: In the Reins [5.Oct.05]
The Love Hall Tryst: Songs of Misfortune [19.Sep.05]
The Kennedys: Half a Million Miles [12.Sep.05]
Blue Highway: Marbletown [25.Aug.05]
Holopaw: Quit +/Or Fight [15.Aug.05]
Jackson United: Western Ballads [1.Aug.05]
Kevin Tihista: Home Demons Volume 1 [25.Jul.05]
Fruit Bats: Spelled in Bones [8.Jul.05]
Sufjan Stevens: Illinois [1.Jul.05]
Pete Seeger: The Essential Pete Seeger [21.Jun.05]
Madagascar: Forced March [15.Jun.05]
Glen Phillips: Winter Pays for Summer [26.May.05]
Bird Show: Green Inferno [16.May.05]
Various Artists: The Appalachians [6.May.05]
Euphone: V [EP] [2.May.05]
The Zincs: Dimmer [21.Apr.05]
Vic Chesnutt: Ghetto Bells [15.Apr.05]
Tremulous Monk: Sparkle Like Your Shoes [12.Apr.05]
Deana Carter: The Story of My Life [7.Mar.05]
Nicolai Dunger: This Cloud Is Learning [reissue] [23.Feb.05]
William Elliott Whitmore: Ashes to Dust [22.Feb.05]
Magnolia Electric Co.: Trials & Errors [15.Feb.05]
Crash Test Dummies: Songs of the Unforgiven [9.Feb.05]
Deerhoof: Bibidi Babidi Boo [24.Jan.05]
Split Lip Rayfield: Should Have Seen It Coming [20.Jan.05]
Simon and Garfunkel: Old Friends: Live on Stage [19.Jan.05]
The Wilco Book (Book + CD) by Wilco [7.Dec.04]
Wovenhand: Consider the Birds [6.Dec.04]
Steve Turner: And His Bad Ideas [3.Dec.04]
Kid Dakota: The West Is the Future [24.Nov.04]
Richard Shindell: Vuelta [15.Nov.04]
Branches: self-titled [26.Oct.04]
Julie Doiron: Goodnight Nobody [20.Oct.04]
R.E.M.: Around the Sun [18.Oct.04]
The Mendoza Line: Fortune [7.Oct.04]
The Wailin' Jennys: 40 Days [30.Sep.04]
The Thin Man: H.M.S. Mondegreen [28.Sep.04]
Karate: Pockets [20.Sep.04]
Old Canes: Early Morning Hymns [16.Sep.04]
Tim Eriksen: Every Sound Below [10.Sep.04]
Carbon Leaf: Indian Summer [30.Aug.04]
The Meat Purveyors: Pain by Numbers [27.Aug.04]
Nora O'Connor: Til the Dawn [13.Aug.04]
Mark Lanegan Band: Bubblegum [11.Aug.04]
Havergal: Elettricita [6.Aug.04]
Pearl Jam: Lost Dogs [29.Jul.04]
Brother Danielson: Brother Is to Son [26.Jul.04]
Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter: Oh, My Girl [23.Jul.04]
Vic Chesnutt: Drunk [19.Jul.04]
Vic Chesnutt: West of Rome [19.Jul.04]
Vic Chesnutt: Little [19.Jul.04]
Supernatural: The Vic Chesnutt Re-issues [19.Jul.04]
Vic Chesnutt: Is the Actor Happy? [19.Jul.04]
Leo Kottke: Try and Stop Me [14.Jul.04]
For Stars: ...It Falls Apart [6.Jul.04]
The Decemberists: The Tain [28.Jun.04]
Broken Spindles: Fulfilled: Complete [21.Jun.04]
King Wilkie: Broke [28.May.04]
Pale Horse and Rider: Moody Pike [24.May.04]
Wilco: A Ghost Is Born [21.May.04]
Grant-Lee Phillips: Virginia Creeper [27.Apr.04]
