May 5, 2014 | 2014, Featured, Sound & Vision, Toons, Unfamous |
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...
Apr 26, 2014 | 2014, Sound & Vision, Toons, Unfamous |
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...
Apr 12, 2014 | 2014, Featured, Sound & Vision, Toons, Unfamous |
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...
Mar 29, 2014 | 2014, Sound & Vision, Toons, Unfamous |
I just published this review on Blog Critics: Owls is comprised of all the members of seminal emo legends Cap’n Jazz, except Davey von Bohlen. They took emo from the underground punk of Rites Of Spring and Fugazi, and mainstreamed it as an indie genre. In other...
Feb 16, 2014 | 2014, Sound & Vision, Toons, Unfamous |
Mark Kozelek has been hiding behind band names since at least 1989. His band the Red House Painters released their debut that year. A strange habit for someone whose lyrics are so personal and honest. He’s often compared to Mark Eitzel (American Music Club) who...
Jan 18, 2014 | 2013, Playlists, Sound & Vision, Toons |
So I may have missed the New Year’s excitement by a couple of weeks with this post, but figured it’s better to have a bit of time to reflect on something so groundbreakingly significant as a list of the best music released over 12 months…...