Fred Phelps: GOOD RIDDANCE! By Kent Manthie Well, finally, someone most people wanted to see go, went. While too often we read in the newspaper or see on TV, that so-and-so has died and it’s usually some brilliant mind who has all-too-tragically, died, usually far too young, not to say that it’s a shame when we lose any great person […]
He’s Dead! Thank “god” for That!!
Music Review: Magic Carpet Circus
[New Music] Of Montreal: Lousy With Sylvanbriar From Polyvinyl Records, 2013 Review by Kent Manthie Kevin Barnes’s traveling circus, aka Of Montreal are back. This time with new, mellow toxic gold (my italics) encased in the new CD, Lousy With Sylvanbriar. The tunes are smooth, groovy, laid back, a slight change from the whimsical wildness of Skeletal Lamping, or Hissing […]
Lovely, Raw and Wicked Licks
Hickoids Tweet Hairy Chafin’ Ape Suit Saustex Media Review by Kent Manthie Austin, TX’s Saustex Media has proudly just released the newest from South Texas legends, Hickoids, a band whose history goes way back to 1984. Their original “run” went from ’84 to 1991. It was in those heady days before technology and robots took over things, when there was […]
Rumba Rush
Lili Anel I Can See Bliss From Here Wall-I Records Review by Kent Manthie Tweet A new album’s worth of music is out now from Lili Anel, entitled I Can See Bliss From Here, a really smooth, jazz-based sound; one from which one can hear ‘bliss’. On this new CD, Lili’s collaborated with Dale Melton on about 90% of the […]
new music: TRILINGUAL ep
[New Music Review] Trails and Ways Trilingual EP Tweet Self-Released, 2013 Review by Kent Manthie Oakland-based indie delights Trails and Ways have just released Trilingual, an EP that this Bay Area quartet recorded on their own, with no label support, in a collective “house”-cum-studio in Oak-town, called T. Rex Manor. The four of them, two guys and two gals, Keith […]
Man or Astroman? Defcon 5
[New Music] Man or Astroman? Defcon 5 Tweet 5, 4, 3, 2, 1… Communicating Vessels Review by Kent Manthie After TWELVE long years of absence, the space-surf-punk trio, Man or Astroman? Have finally reunited – at first it was to play a few reunion gigs and soon turned into a full-fledged comeback. The new album, with the original three members, […]
Nihilistic Devil or Misunderstood Genius?
[New Books] The Luminous Memories of Alexander Vile Tweet A new novella by author Natasha Jones, available for $4.95 on Amazon Reviewed by Kent Manthie In the short story, The Luminous Memories of Alexander Vile, Natasha Jones has, with a pen, painted a wonderfully interesting portrait of a man who takes in a young orphan, not a newborn, mind you, […]
Country music to help you get over Country music
The Beaumonts Where Do You Want It from Saustex Media, 2013 Review by Kent Manthie On this second of CDs by a quintet from Lubbock, Texas’s, The Beaumonts, entitled Where Do You Want It we get a follow-up from their debut as The Beaumonts “continue to right the wrongs of the recent musical past…” (from the promo bio sheet). The […]