Authors: Stakerized
Review: Sir Richard Bishop – Tangier Sessions
Sir Richard Bishop = Pentangle + Bonnie Prince Billy – Sun City Girls … read more
Review: Wino & Conny Ochs – Freedom Conspiracy
Wino & Conny Ochs = Townes Van Zandt + acoustic Nirvana – Black Label Conspiracy … read more
Review: Reigning Sound – Shattered
Reigning Sound= Bob Dylan + The New Pornographers – Neko Case … read more
Local Review: I See Your Nightmares – Affinity For Broken...
The latest entrant in the local oddball folk music area, I See Your Nightmares includes some experimental and even slightly prog-amplified touches, like in the fuzzed-out musings of “Crocodile Tongues.” … read more
Review: The Smoking Flowers – 2 Guns
IIt’s more interesting than the crop of artists on the pop country charts, but that isn’t saying much. For sheer listening—if you enjoy the storytelling lyricizing of the country genre—you could do far worse. … read more
Local Review: I See Your Nightmares – A Lovely Occurrence
I See Your Nightmares = Lou Barlow + Lou Reed – Sebastian Bach … read more
Review: Papercuts – Life Among the Savages
Papercuts = Spiritualized + The Eels – Coldplay … read more
Review: Guided By Voices – Motivational Jumpsuit
“The biggest fish in the smallest pond?” he asks in “Littlest League,” seeming to question his indie-rock legend status. Pollard seems bent on creating works that are more and more self-assured and, in some small way, monumental, even when he doesn’t always knock one out of the park. … read more
Review: Plague Vendor – Free To Eat
Review: Plague Vendor – Free To Eat … read more
Review: Magik Markers – Surrender to the Fantasy
It’s the introspective turn into a fantasy realm, even if, instead of his grungy stuffed animals, it’s the evocation of some barefoot, unheated ’60s hippie collective walkup, with all the demonism and beauty that implies. … read more