The Lashes: “Get It” (Columbia Records) A lot of people have this fixed idea of Seattle as a dreary, overcast, depressing rainy place and for good reason, since it does rain all the time there. When you mention that a particular band is from Seattle, one likewise associates the Seattle connection as a de facto genre of music, due to […]
#32.3 Music Reviews
Music Reviews, #32.4
Airport 81: “Get Your Squares Together” (Breathing Room Records) Listening to “Get Your Squares Together”, by Airport 81, a musical project based in San Diego, my senses were piqued. The icy dream-tracks on here make me think of stark European landscapes; gray English overcast landscapes mixed with steely German minimalism. Airport 81 does a fabulous job of marrying mechanized, computerized, […]
Crazy Streak book review
Crazy Streak, By John Gilmore, 2005, Scapegoat Press Review by Kent Manthie Growing up in a small town must be pretty stultifying; anyone with the smallest amount of ambition would do all they can to get the hell out as soon as they’re able. Well, Bobby McGee is no exception. To escape, Bobby had gone into the army a couple […]
donc va la guerre
Dear friends, As you may know, there’s been a recent change in the print cycle of Reviewer. After doing this many years and being consistently issued as a bimonthly, Reviewer magazine will now be a semiannual. The web page will be updated with news and reviews though, so if you have a submission you would like considered, please feel free […]