Articles tagged "the handsome family"

20 Questions Feature

The Handsome Family

by PopMatters Staff

[15.Feb.09] :. Country, bluegrass, and murder ballads, pharmaceuticals, home brews, and macabre stories -- and more to come with Honey Moon.

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News

The Handsome Family is searingly honest

by Jim Farber [New York Daily News (MCT)]

[27.Sep.07] :. Rats, fleas and serial killers - these are a few of Rennie Sparks’ favorite things. The lyricist for the brilliantly morbid duo known as the Handsome Family writes with pleasure about things...

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Events Review

The Handsome Family

by Kevin Pearson

[20.Jul.06] :. Death? Yes. Decay? Sure. Overturned shopping carts? Why not? A fruit plate? That's a little suspect.

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Music Review

The Handsome Family: Last Days of Wonder

by Michael Metivier

[16.Jun.06] :. This land is your land, this land is my land, from the Devil dancing in the silent branches of thousand-year-old trees, to large iced tea, extra packet of ketchup, and small bag of onion rings.

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Music Review

The Handsome Family: Singing Bones

by Jason MacNeil

[8.Oct.03] :. Rennie and Brett Sparks are the oddest and most bizarre couple in alt.country or old-time country circles today. And god bless them for it! The Chicago couple who now call New Mexico home have...

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Events Review

The Handsome Family

by Jillian Steinberger

[11.Jan.02] :. The club was packed, and the crowd by the bar only shushed when Brett and Rennie, like a young, perverse Johnny and June, took the stage. It was like welcoming a punk rock Mr. Green Jeans. The...

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The Handsome Family: Twilight

by Fred Kovey

[24.Sep.01] :. As I was thumbing through the liner notes to the Handsome Family’s new album Twilight, I came across the following two sentences. “I don’t know where any of these photos came...