Music Reviews for issue 32 (with one DVD review) by Vikkee Payge Tarantella Esqueletos This album is the band’s first full-length album, and it’s beautiful. The haunting fiddle playing by Kelly O’Dea flows with the mournful melodies of lead singer Kal Calhoone like water. The album, sung in both English and Spanish, mixes Western twang with traditional Spanish and Italian […]
issue 32 music reviews
#32.3 Music Reviews
The Lashes: “Get It” (Columbia Records) A lot of people have this fixed idea of Seattle as a dreary, overcast, depressing rainy place and for good reason, since it does rain all the time there. When you mention that a particular band is from Seattle, one likewise associates the Seattle connection as a de facto genre of music, due to […]
Music Reviews, #32.4
Airport 81: “Get Your Squares Together” (Breathing Room Records) Listening to “Get Your Squares Together”, by Airport 81, a musical project based in San Diego, my senses were piqued. The icy dream-tracks on here make me think of stark European landscapes; gray English overcast landscapes mixed with steely German minimalism. Airport 81 does a fabulous job of marrying mechanized, computerized, […]
Crazy Streak book review
Crazy Streak, By John Gilmore, 2005, Scapegoat Press Review by Kent Manthie Growing up in a small town must be pretty stultifying; anyone with the smallest amount of ambition would do all they can to get the hell out as soon as they’re able. Well, Bobby McGee is no exception. To escape, Bobby had gone into the army a couple […]