Thursday, April 28 2011
Hauschka: Salon Des Amateurs
Salon Des Amateurs is great fun and probably the most floral piece of belle époque kitsch you’ll hear all year: perfect background music for your Baudelaire reading group, but it might be a bit much for less adventurous ears.
Thursday, July 22 2010
Frontier Ruckus: Deadmalls and Nightfalls
Deadmalls and Nightfalls is a musical map to the psyches of its performers. You will want to know the words by heart to sing under the haze of summer starlight.
Sunday, February 1 2009
Calexico: Live from Austin TX [DVD]
When the band kicks into full-gear and those horns full of mariachi flourishes and adventure blast forth, it can make you imagine whole vistas unfolding in front of you.
Thursday, January 8 2009
Marianne Dissard: L’Entredeux
Marianne Dissard lives in Arizona but doesn't sound like it. She sounds French.
Thursday, December 18 2008
The Best Americana Music of 2008
It did seem -- perhaps because of the genre's traditional real-world concerns -- like a lot of the year's best Americana releases sensed the storm clouds gathering.
Tuesday, October 14 2008
Calexico
By the end of the night we’ve heard a pretty good variety of material: Ghostly Mark Knopfler-esque shuffles, dubious salsa, and even the odd glacial noise-storm.
Tuesday, September 16 2008
The Energy Moving Through the Air: An Interview with Calexico’s Joey Burns
In a business that is dominated by both the hyper-commodification of artistry and the lazy emphasis on marketing and artifice rather than imagination and creativity, Calexico’s “just play” approach is like the whisper of another era.
Wednesday, September 10 2008
Calexico: Carried to Dust
Calexico return to the dusty Southwest - and, triumphantly, to their absolute best - on their sixth studio album
Friday, May 18 2007
Various Artists: The Road Mix: Music from the Television Series One Tree Hill, Vol. 3
Music for a trip from Carolina to Texas and back again. Play this CD 32 times straight and say, "There's no place like Tree Hill…There's no place like Tree Hill…"
