In addition to the The May Fire review I posted about earlier, there’s a whole pile of other cool stuff up recently. One of the coolest is a review of local H-town-area noise-rapper B L A C K I E; his debut, Wilderness of North America, is an angry, free-jazz-informed combo assault of thick-sounding City of Syrup hip-hop, hazy avant-noise, and […]
Written on August 19, 2008 | Posted in
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Yeah, I’ve been wrestling with this one for a while. It’s surprisingly hard to peg down a band when they remind you of a period in music rather than of any specific band or bands, and that’s the case for me with The Jealous Girlfriends on their self-titled full-length…
Written on August 14, 2008 | Posted in
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Well, I pretty much lucked out, I think, this past Thursday. The wife was having a moms’ group thing (something involving chocolate & a lot of women) at our house, so the munchkin went to Grandma’s for the night & I was banished temporarily from the premises. And lo and behold, in spite of it […]
Written on February 9, 2008 | Posted in
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