Alex Lynch One Glimpse Away Self-Released, 2010 Tweet Reviewed by Kent Manthie Talk about hitting the jackpot with a DIY project: Alex Lynch, a native Russian who seems to have a pretty damn good grasp of English, has just put out one of two releases he currently has on the market. One Glimpse Away is a 6-song EP that just […]
Two great but divergent CDs: Alex Lynch, welcome to America
LISTEN UP!!! Great new CD by T.S. Brooks
T.S. Brooks Reacclimator Self-Released, 2011 Reviewed by Kent Manthie [Recorded between January and February, 2011, in sunny San Diego, CA, at the House of Plenty. New songs, like ‘Spiral anymore’ and ‘When you sleep’ blend well with hitherto unrecorded live favorites ‘Ribbon’ and ‘Kelly in se.’ Quite raw, quite sparse, quite real; and only available digitally (until further notice). ~ […]
Best Show of the Year!!!
Joan of Arc @ The Casbah, San Diego 5/16/11 Review by Kent Manthie On Monday, May 16th a select few lucky San Diegans were honored to be present at a blissful show: the amazing Chicago outfit Joan of Arc played an outrageous, stupendous and awesome show at the Casbah. Opening up was local band Street of Little Girls and Airwaves, […]
Three new iconoclasts from Polyvinyl
of Montreal thecontrollersphere Polyvinyl Records, 2011 www.polyvinylrecords.com Review by Kent Manthie After 10 great CDs by this genre-bending, androgynous outfit led by maestro Kevin Barnes, of Montreal has just released a little EP – thecontrollersphere, a five song experience that is typical of the gender-bending, hyper-sexual, disco-on-acid style wiggles that are at their peak in 2009’s Skeletal Lamping and 2008’s […]
SYRINX -go to the light…
Syrinx In the Shadows Dark Meadow Recordings, 2011 Reviewed by Kent Manthie Self-hypnosis is an interesting and delightful way of tuning out the noise of the world outside of one’s consciousness. Among the ways to achieve this state, a “yantra” is a helpful focal tool (a yantra is a fixed visual field as opposed to a mantra, which is, such […]
To-Bo or not To-Bo…
To-Bo, Malaria Dark Meadow Recordings, 2011, darkmeadowrecordings.com Reviewed by Kent Manthie To-Bo, a German experimental noise band has been bopping around various underground labels and now, the latest, Malaria has just appeared on Dark Meadow Recordings. Their work is…well, it’s an “acquired taste”, meaning that it will probably never be heard on any commercial outlet. This is, like, true industrial […]
L. Ron Rhymes with EX-CON!
Scientology is a big fat, money and power-hungry machine with no regard for human life! Written by Kim Masters; posted by Kent Manthie with many thanks and three cheers to the courtesy of Rick Ross’s Cult Education Forum, www.rickross.com The following article was posted to the Daily Beast on 9/27. As of today (Date?), it has been removed. (but now, […]
cd review: i Am Esper, Glowing Valleys
[cd review] i Am Esper, Glowing Valleys THE DARK MEADOW ALLIANCE, part one Dark Meadow Recordings, 2011 Reviewed by Kent Manthie Since the middle part of this decade, Justin Palmieri has been working hard under the pseudonym, “Esper”. A short while ago he released his latest CD, this time for Dark Meadow Recordings, as he has been making discs for […]