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Terra Twin and DahL Reviewed
November 19, 2024
Terra Twin – Again and Again
Memories ain’t nothing. They shouldn’t scare you. They have little power over you. At least, not as much as they could have. The brain’s cleverly wired in such a way that many of the worst nights and most tense mornings that…
The Black Keys - "Ohio Players" Review
November 19, 2024
The Black Keys is one of all the retro-rock bands, the one that’s figured out how to sound distinctive while always quoting other musicians. The duo can do the blues or 70s pop-rock alright.
Oftentimes, their new tunes sound just like the samples on an old rap…
Pixies - "The Night the Zombies Came" Review
November 19, 2024
Pixies have always been terrifying, all the while writing beautiful melodies to their horror fantasies. But that’s not the only thing that sets Frank Black’s songs apart. Unlike a Norwegian black metal band, Black writes as if he’s part of the gruesome…
Björk - "Homogenic" Reviewed and Revisited
November 19, 2024
Björk is not singularly responsible for creating Icelandophilia, an obsession with all things related to the tiny Nordic island. But, the artist’s sudden and colossal success, together with the otherworldliness of her music, certainly helped sell as many tourist…
Red Hot Chili Peppers professed to be the band you called upon when you desired bone-crunching funk. By the time they recorded “Blood Sugar Sex Magik,” however, they were a group ready to embrace more sounds than ever before and styles and even deliver a few slow…
Marc Miner and Hamish Anderson Reviewed
November 14, 2024
Marc Miner – Ol’ Well
A guitar is a luxury that the truly great bluesmen, the ones whose heart hangs heavy with melancholy, will take and use, but don’t need. The guitar and all other instruments played by a combo are just devices to get the unconverted to…
Jfarrari and Desvelo Club Reviewed
November 14, 2024
Jfarrari – Try
Listen, it’s only natural for fashion to change and the heroes of those fashion trends to change along with time. Back in the fabled 1980s, Simon LeBon, singer of pop sensation Duran Duran, once told reporters that his lyrics were influenced by more…
Alligator Ladies and Auris Delan and The Pepper Sho Reviewed
November 14, 2024
Alligator Ladies – Crazy Magician Man
Around 36,000 people travelled to Peru specifically for ayahuasca retreats in 2019, and a significant portion of these tourists were from the United States. That’s the last stat that I could pick up. But walking around…
Pnoom and Bag Of Cans Reviewed
November 14, 2024
Pnoom – John Machine
Hypnosis works! Nah, it ain’t no myth. The guy clucking like a chicken in the circus show might well have been paid. But a hypnotist can certainly get you to go deep in your psyche, even make you do unexpected things.
No, this isn’t…