Can Art Give Us Hope?

[Art Scene] A Recent Event in Connecticut Tweet By Jason Stoneking I didn’t realize until quite recently that on some level I am actively looking for hope. If you would have asked me a few years ago, I might well have said that the portrayal of hope was somehow sappy or pedestrian, something better left to the realm of Disney […]

book review: Reaching Out With No Hands: Reconsidering Yoko Ono, by Lisa Carver

[Books] Reaching Out With No Hands: Reconsidering Yoko Ono Tweet by Lisa Carver, from Backbeat Books, $18.99, biography, 5×7″ (approx) hardcover with dust jacket, 154 pages, 2012, backbeatbooks.com book review by Reviewer Rob In 1994 or 95 was weaning off of being the drunk nightclub photographer at Revolt in Style magazine because I had a habit of shooting nude photos […]

Tex-Mex Garage Rock Supreme!

The Copper Gamins Los Ninos de Cobre Saustex Media, 2012 Reviewed by Kent Manthie The Copper Gamins are keeping things going with their new CD, Los Ninos de Cobre. It is a follow up to their debut EP from last year (2012). They bring an authenticity with their love of the blues and they take their blues-lovin’ sounds to a […]