It’s often tempting to characterize an album with a season, especially when its qualities are so reminiscent of a particular time of year, and even more so if the album is released around the season it recalls. Pomegranates’ formal debut Everything Is Alive fills both these criteria for a “seasonal” album…
Written on July 11, 2008 | Posted in
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I have been sitting on this review for many months, really unable to get my head around Flesh and Spirits, the third album from The Gena Rowlands Band, an ever-shifting project centered on…
Written on July 3, 2008 | Posted in
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Alright, so I knew San Francisco was weird as fuck to begin with, but apparently SF is the new insane party scene you always wished you were cool enough to be into but can really only shake your head in wonderment at…
Written on April 16, 2008 | Posted in
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Here’s the story: the guy (Erik Aucoin) who started the fledgling Lujo Records hired a girl whom he hadn’t met (Jocelyn Toews) on the other coast to help do PR. Eventually, the girl found greener pastures and went to work for a bigger, better known indie label…
Written on January 27, 2007 | Posted in
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Though British psychobilly revivalists the Drugstore Cowboys tore things up on Rockabilly Rumble Deuce with their track “Game Over,” they — wait, that’s not right. Popular cover band The Drugstore Cowboys always wows the crowd at the San Antonio Continental…
Written on January 12, 2007 | Posted in
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