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Casey Frazier and Laura Zarougian Reviewed
October 10, 2024
Casey Frazier – If We Grow Old
Many kids try to record a couple of songs or start a high school band. The ones who can afford it make a bid to be pop stars. They put out a video and designed an online marketing campaign. Most of them stop once the money or the…
Lung Brothers and The Bobby Tenderloin Universe Reviewed
September 26, 2024
Lung Brothers – Death Be Kind
Some people mean it. They’re terrifying. They’re not saying things just to get attention, just to mess with your mind while you’re busy having a beer and watching the game. Some people are genuinely sad bastards with a kind of…
JD Hinton and Doug Walther Reviewed
September 19, 2024
JD Hinton – Trouble Time
Townes van Zandt, the great philosopher of country music, sang about kinds of troubles that, should they ever find you, would break your back and leave you with nothing. That isn’t exactly a cheerful subject, the kind that pop music…
The Beard and the Bird and YZAPE Reviewed
August 22, 2024
The Beard and the Bird – Dust If You Must
Nobody is really sure why certain styles of music are retired. It’s not like someone asks a commission to study the songs of that genre and conclude whether it should continue to concern modern audiences. It’s not like…
Jimmy Mallia and Tyler Ballgame Reviewed
August 15, 2024
Jimmy Mallia – Had Em All
Humour is one of the elements that, fortunately, creeps into alternative music all the time. It helps the music feel as if it’s coming out of the left field as if the people responsible for making it have a greater vision than any of us…
Petunia & The Vipers and Ronjo V Reviewed
July 29, 2024
Petunia & The Vipers – Bible Preacher
The past is frightening, and I’m not talking about no Dark Ages either. We all tremble at some of the things that make the news today. But we feel this way because we know what we left behind not long ago. If you care to…
Greg Loftus and ASCOLT DERY Reviewed
July 20, 2024
Greg Loftus – I Don’t Want to Die in San Antone
It’s not just the people who earned so much from the record sales that they could afford to buy mansions and install gold-plated swimming pools in them, who were saved by making music, or any other art for that…
timothy e. cooney jr and O KANENAS Reviewed
July 8, 2024
timothy e. cooney jr – mountain blues (pleaded to go)
Any serious movement tells disciples to live in silence. It’s only natural that they would. Some movements do it because silent followers are also followers who don’t complain too much. Other clubs genuinely…
Colton Cerny and Old Pup Reviewed
June 27, 2024
Colton Cerny – The Fist Fighter
The world’s a safer place for many but also a much less truthful place. People won’t admit their feelings for each other, especially when revealing their thoughts, which would mean having to tell someone else just how much they…