cd review: GRIT by Stone Horse

GRIT by Stone Horse 10 tracks, stonehorse.net by Reviewer Rob the rock snob The core of this La Jolla-based working local bar rock band is a two-piece consisting of singer Danielle Spade and guitarist Carlos Rodriguez. Danielle has a sweet voice with the range of Grace Slick and the occasional emotional density of Janice Joplin in one song, then she’ll […]

cd review: KNOW GOD, NO PEACE by Three Sixes

[Metal Review] KNOW GOD, NO PEACE by Three Sixes 15 songs, with a secret unlisted hidden track #33. Highly packaged cd sleeve with a full color printed lyrics sheet. [threesixes.com] reviewed by Reviewer Rob Lot’s of ultra aggressive, fast, crunching and grinding death-metal here. Shrieking guitars, thumping machinegun drums, hoarse/growling vocals and sound effects that include sirens (?) mingle with […]

cd review: “Yoshimi” by The Adversary

“Yoshimi” The Adversary, featuring Jenny Electrik (1-track disc, 4:03 minutes) reviewed by Reviewer Rob A rather ordinary single track cover cd of “Yoshimi” by The Adversary. The disc sleeve doesn’t credit the Flaming Lips and leaves out the Pink Robots. From what I was told the artist was trying to plan a Burning Man style monthly party up in the […]

cd review: THE BLEAK TWINS

THE BLEAK TWINS Lisa Carver & Costes (1989, reissue) reviewed by Reviewer Rob Okay, I’m feeling uncomfortable listening to Lisa Carver’s THE BLEAK TWINS cd that I picked up for $10 by mail. It’s like being transported against your will back to the analog and land line dominated late 1980’s. I wonder how many times this stuff she did with […]

returning the stones: granite from my hills

A piece of home by Reviewer Rob This is a piece of granite I took from the hills of North Penasquitos where I grew up. It’s not from the actual street from my childhood but close by, and the geology is pretty much the same all over there. It just means something to me for that reason, it’s from close […]