“Xtra Compressed for Maximum Listener Fatigue” CD review by Mookie Why did Rick Froberg leave San Diego for Brooklyn? It couldn’t have been the weather. Froberg has been a veteran of the San Diego music scene and a fixture here for quite some time, playing in bands like Pitchfork, Drive Like Jehu and Hotsnakes. Now he’s teamed up with three […]
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CD review: GRINDERMAN 2
[New Music] GRINDERMAN 2 CD review by Mookie Grinderman 2 came out in September of this year and a copy of the deluxe edition just recently fell into my hands. It includes a book of illustrations, lyrics and a poster of the four guys in the band. Grinderman is what happens when Nick Cave starts writing songs on his guitar […]
Local Radio: Changes Underway
“Mookie” will return… Recently Fired 91X DJ Mookie Already Planning A Comeback A first-person essay for Reviewer Magazine by Marc “Mookie” Kaczor [At right: Mookie at the mic. Photo from his Facebook. -Editor] Most of the old school radio veterans in San Diego are quick to tell stories of how the industry used to be. They said the DJs were […]
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 […]
DVD review: alt short film Home Made Monster
Home Made Monster (The Musical) From Scumbag Movies, written and directed by Leia Gadow and Brandon Gadow, starring Leia Gadow, Brandon Gadow, Rick Reger, Jesus Yepez, Blaire Whitcomb, Chuck Green, Amy GreenEarl WinstonHamit Kilic, Lisa Merullo-Boaz, Dilan Cheavacci, Capitan, music by The Jim Rowdy Show, Bobby Dickson, Paul Rey Reviewed by Robert Shamlin A girl needs love. The alcoholic man […]
CD review: I Wanna Be Famous, by Jessica Delfino
Jessica Delfino I Wanna Be Famous Jessica is a NYC scenester who appears to take her cues from the early-mid-1990’s DIY fanzine and punkrock movement. This lady’s music is surprisingly listenable. Open this great little CD and inside you’ll see she’s reading a tattered copy of THE ANARCHIST COOKBOOK at what looks like a coffeeshop table and looking off into […]
Indie Takeover: One CD and Two seven-inchers
Aloud Exile Lemon Merchant Records www.allthingsaloud.com Reviewed by Kent Manthie What to make of Aloud? Hmm…it’s not your everyday pop-rock-hip/hop-emo-nu-metal CD but a horse of an entirely different color. More oriented toward hippie groovin’, folkified, laid back mellowness, Exile, their newest release has some interesting routes less traveled in the average music of today. Aloud consists of two principals: Jen […]