Music reviews, by Natalie Kardos The Cinematics – A Strange Education With their full-length debut album A Strange Education, The Cinematics throw their hat into the dance-rock ring. Their highly polished variation on this now-familiar theme includes glitzy guitar licks, glimmery chords, and cymbal-centric drumming. Many of the songs, including “Break,” give the listener the feeling of driving on darkened […]
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Blues musicians, blues jammers and Jump-Swing Blues aficionados: come early to Peter D’s Nightclub at 7 pm and have a drink and sign up to jam this Wednesday night, March 21, at 5149 Claremont Mesa Blvd! ~RR Mystery Train of San Diego, a Jump-Swing Blues and Root Rock & Roll band is currently hosting two weekly blues jams in San […]
Motus at House Of Blues, San Diego, 2/07
Here’s some photos of Motus from backstage at their early-evening February, 2007, House Of Blues show in San Diego. All pics shot by me, Reviewer Rob, because I’m kinda awesome. ~RR
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Ringstone Round – Diable Amoreux
Music review by Kirsten Imani Kasai Diable Amoreux, Ringstone Round, 2006 I wanted so badly to like this album. The press release promises “ambient apocalyptic folk” music, which I imagined to be a shivery, gorgeously grim mess of pulsing melodies – a harmonic convergence of Goth, classical and traditional folk similar to The Gathering or Dead Can Dance. The fact […]
Music Reviews – Copperhead
Music Reviews by Kent Mathie Copperhead: “Live & Lost” (Eastwinds Records) A band that has been around the block a couple times and is still not interested in selling out is Copperhead. In 2002 they released a CD called “Live & Lost”, their third studio release which includes four live tracks, smack dab in the middle of the studio cuts. […]
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patrick cornell http://myspace.com/patrickcornell po box 46792 los angeles, ca 90046 God wouldn’t have him and Satan’s den was full, so he proffered his soul to rock n’ roll. From the basements of Ohio to the hills of Hollywood, singer/songwriter Patrick Cornell has arrived, spitting songs of booze and love. Loitering in LA’s lowest of lows while searching for the highest […]