White Lies – To Lose Your LifePolydor/Universal White Lies, I want to like you. I really do. Your album, To Lose Your Life, is rife with great production value, a sort-of-gloom-and-doom quality in its references to chapel steps and plethora of minor chord progressions, and a cornucopia of vocal reverb. But alas, White Lies, the […]
Trachtenberg Family Slide Show Players – DVD
In a very literal sense, the Trachtenberg Family Slide Show Players ensemble embraces the “gold age of slide projection” during the ‘50s, ’60s, and ‘70s, inspired by a vintage slide projector discovered by mom Tina Trachtenberg. It was her brilliant idea to add this medium to the folk songs of her husband. When this happened, […]
Be Your Own Pet – Be Your Own Pet
Be Your Own Pet is a spastic little foursome straight outta music city, Nashville represent! They love Iggy and the Stooges, caffeine, spicy food, T-Rex, and playing a fast, “uptight fun” style of punk rock for twenty-somethings with ADD. They hate having asthma, yep all four have it, they hate flat tires, runny eggs, and […]