The lines within music are blurring more and more, blurring between folk and indie, between hip-hop and electro. It’s all a good thing. It makes for new recipes of music, something our ears get to bite into that’s different from before. There’s also the blur of what actually constitutes a band. Can one person be […]
Life’s been a wild ride for Smoke or Fire of late. First off, the band had to miss several dates on a recent Western tour. Having noticed some oddness in the steering mechanism, the band sought advice from a mechanic. They were duly alarmed to discover they were dangerously close to abruptly losing the ability […]
I must admit that after hearing the Denver-based MC, Bobby Hook, spit live at a recent birthday bash, I was eagerly anticipating a chance to hear his debut Brass Knuckle LP, Version 1.0. However, after checking out the young MC’s record, I must also admit that I’m a little disappointed. Do understand that this disappointment […]
Thank you, Quentin. Thank you for everything. Thank you for “Jungle Boogie” on Pulp Fiction. Thank you for directing Uma and John Travolta dancing together. Thank you for the 5, 6, 7, 8’s in Kill Bill Vol. 1, and for reminding us of Nancy Sinatra’s tale of childhood love and its ominous signifiers in Vol. […]
The first time through Flatfoot 56’s Jungle of the Midwest Sea, I heard a street punk band with Celtic overtones, with bagpipes, a blue-collar feel and a growly-voiced singer. It took a second round through to note the obvious Christian lyrics—maybe because the lyrics didn’t stand out much. A pit-worthy sound but without the danceable […]
When the benign noisy haze lifts on “Souvenirs”—the opening track of Midnight Movies 2007 release Lion the Girl—it does so to reveal a woman’s voice decidedly vintage in the hollow haunts it travels. Pitched as encompassing “noir L.A., replete with mystery, desire, and yearning,” Lion the Girl seems stamped with shadows of the past, pulling […]
