Rachael Dadd
People (darn those 'people') bandy around so many descriptions of singers' voices that they start to become mundane. The 'awesome' effect if you will, whereupon receiving a cup of tea, I now fight the urge to indicate I am struck with awe. Rachael Dadd however has...
On Beauty
At the moment of her own greatest emotional commitment she intervened in the most successful marriage she knew. And it was true: sitting behind her desk, examining this abandoned, rudderless man, she had felt perversely vindicated. Seeing him like that had meant she...
Sir Richard Bishop
Sir Richard Bishop is one third of the band Sun City Girls. The three people that comprise Sun City Girls are temerarious in their osmosis of styles and liberal in their regurgitation and re-imagining of music from across the spectrum into some new form of...
Slip of the Tongue – Adriel Luis
I’ll tell you bout my ‘ethnic makeup.’
I wear foundation,
not that powdery shit,
I wear the foundation laid by my indigenous people.
It’s that foundation that makes it so that past being globalized,
I can still vocalize with confidence that i know where my roots are.
I wear this foundation not upon my face, but within my soul,
and I take this from my ancestors
because I’ll be damned if I’d ever let an American or European corporation
tell me what my foundation
should look like
Busman’s Holiday – A Long Goodbye
I just had another review published on Blogcritics: Busman's Holiday is brothers Lewis and Addison Rogers, a pair steeped in the fine art of songsmithery, built simply with the classic tools of a guitar and a suitcase drum kit. Addison was part of Jens Lekman's last...