Churchwood Churchwood Saustex Media, 2010 saustexmedia.com Reviewed by Kent Manthie Austin, Texas’s Churchwood has recently released a full-length, eponymously titled CD. When I pushed play and it started playing, I thought it sounded like Captain Beefheart (Don Van Vliet) but instead of being a derivative of CB, Churchwood has their own, original-sounding style. On their MySpace page, they’re a self-described […]
Get thee to Churchwood!
The HICKOIDS are BACK!
The Hickoids Kicking It With the Twits Saustex Media, 2011 Reviewed by Kent Manthie Austin, TX’s Hickoids are back, after their country-ish turn on Waltz A-Cross-Dress Texas. Country isn’t the only label to slap on these guys because that would 1) it would be bad for their image – what self-respecting artist(s) would want to be known as a “serious” […]
Ladies & Gentlemen: Radiohead’s back in the building!
Radiohead The King of Limbs Independent Release, 2011 Reviewed by Kent Manthie Radiohead’s back and they’re still not playing nice with record labels. With their just finished new CD, The King of Limbs, just like their previous and brilliant album, In Rainbows, they put it up on their website, selling it for a song, compared to those ripoff record store […]
CD review: Life Like by Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc Life Like Polyvinyl Records 2011 www.polyvinylrecords.com www.joanfrc.com Reviewed by Kent Manthie It’s been 14 years so far and still the brilliant revolving-door- “collective” known as Joan of Arc are still making awe-inspiring CDs. The new one, entitled Life Like is a bit more cohesive, with a more stable lineup situation and a not disjointed recording process. It […]
Owen’s new CD-single
Owen: O, Evelyn Polyvinyl Records, 2011 www.polyvinylrecords.com www.owen.com Reviewed by Kent Manthie Mike Kinsella is a busy guy – he is a brilliant songwriter, a great drummer and a clever guitar player. These qualities keep him in demand – he’s got several projects he works in – he’s an on-again/off-again member of American Football, sometimes drops in and jams on […]
BEST LIQUOR!!!
Kent’s Favorite Liquor By Kent Manthie So, just what is Kent’s favorite libation? Even though these days I drink mostly water and haven’t drank – I mean REALLY drink – for about 9 years or so – the last time I remember getting loaded was in Tijuana, I drank a bottle of inexpensive Mescal, which is basically Tequila, just not […]
book review: The Beatles vs. The Rolling Stones: Sound Opinions on the Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Rivalry
[Book Review] The Beatles vs. The Rolling Stones: Sound Opinions on the Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Rivalry Text by Jim deRogatis and Greg Kot 2010, Voyageur Press, Minneapolis, MN Reviewed by Kent Manthie Well Voyageur Press has done it again…This time the Minneapolis-based publishers of such memorable “coffee-table” books, such as the history-in-pictures-and-text of The Velvet Underground: A 30 Year […]
Finally – a funny AND intelligent book worth reading
Smashed, Squashed, Splattered, Chewed, Chunked and Spewed A Novel by Lance Carbuncle (Self-published, ©2007) Reviewed by Kent Manthie For those of you who’ve been keeping up on the world of hip, urbane and witty “underground” novels and the people who write them, you are right, I am going backwards: I reviewed Lance Carbuncle’s latest, most recent novel, Grundish and Askew […]