Friday, December 8 2006
Copeland: Eat, Sleep, Repeat
Which “Co” do you like better: Coldplay or Copeland? You’ll probably say the former, ‘cos you may not have heard of the latter, even though…
Roy Milton: Specialty Profiles: Roy Milton
Jump blues-jazz, very accomplished, solidly bejewelled with Camille Howard's boogie piano, good jazz solos, and Milton sang well.
Thursday, December 7 2006
Fresh Maggots: Fresh Maggots… Hatched
In any other year, Fresh Maggots… Hatched would easily have claimed the title of best maggot-themed album of the year. Released in 1971, it will…
Hamilton de Holanda Quintet: Brasilianos
Hamilton de Holanda plays a 10-string mandolin. He plays it really really well.
Wednesday, December 6 2006
Ronee Blakley: Welcome
She may have played a bigger country star in Nashville than she ever became in the actual music industry, but Ronee Blakley’s largely forgotten musical…
ActionReaction: 3 Is the Magic Number
Emocore has lost another soul to the allure of indie rock. Jason Gleason, ex-frontman for Further Seems Forever, has joined forces with old friends, Bella…
Pattern Is Movement: Canonic
Tiny Telephone engineer Scott Solter re-interprets the fractious avant pop of Pattern Is Movement
That Handsome Devil: That Handsome Devil
A jazzy, spacey kind of specimen that plods along with some crazy but great arrangement behind it.
Tuesday, December 5 2006
Susanna and the Magic Orchestra: Melody Mountain
Norwegian songstress and Jaga Jazzist vet spin songwriting straw (and a few classics) into strange and luminous gold
The Beautiful Girls: Water
A follow-up to the US debut of earlier this year, Water collects 11 tracks from the Beautiful Girls’ three Australian releases pre-We’re Already Gone. The…
James Cooper: Second Season
With a string of musical influences that run from Richard Hawley to Dylan to the Waifs and Crowded House, James Cooper knows what makes a…
Monday, December 4 2006
Shiny Toy Guns: We Are Pilots
Shiny Toy Guns revel in being retro-pop, so it should come as no surprise that the inviting and punchy “You Are the One” is a…
Black Devil Disco Club: 28 After
Disco isn’t dead; it’s just been hanging out in the underworld for a while. In 2004, the album Disco Club by Black Devil, which was…
Hammock: Raising Your Voice…Trying to Stop an Echo
This band got some ink and some ears tuned into them thanks to having some of their work used during the Torino Olympic Games coverage by NBC.
Friday, December 1 2006
Kill the Vultures: The Careless Flame
When Kill the Vultures frontman Alexei Casselle, a.k.a. MC Crescent Moon, sings that moonshine “goes down rough, but it’s good for your dime”, he might…
