[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 […]
new music: TRILINGUAL ep
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 […]