Spiderbait Spiderbait LP Reviewed by Brent D. Tharp Oh musical gods, why hast ye forsaken me? Once, long ago, in a place where only vinyl and 8-track tapes existed, a band’s first album was titled using the band’s name, i.e., eponymously. That’s how we got Bread, Boston, [The] Chicago [Transit Authority], [Fresh] Cream, Supertramp, Buckingham Nicks . . . […]
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Run Brothers Run
Wheeland Brothers Muchos Mahalos LP Reviewed by Brent D. Tharp The musical landscape is littered with acts that are ubiquitous, and sadly, completely interchangeable. Many also claim some distant but unexplained California nativeness. At the risk of generating skeins of hateful email from the feel-good music crowd, I include John Mayer and several others in the aforementioned categories. Then […]
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Meeting Slipknot in San Diego. Not really.
Celebrity Culture In A Predatory Economic System from Lev Six In today’s episode of social-guerrilla warfare, we have a case of a woman who was tricked into flying across the country to meet an amazing band… I am the Director of Social Services for a major charity and have an office in downtown San Diego that serves the nation’s third […]
Wall Of Ukuleles
[Life Goals] Musical Instruments Are Objects Of Desire Below: Ric, behind the counter at Hale Ukulele, with a walls of music around him. These are brand-spanking new high-quality ukuleles for sale at Hale Ukulele in North Bay-Ho, Clairemont Mesa, 858-414-4492, many for as low as $100. I enjoyed the smell of the freshly manufactured wooden musical instruments that filled this […]
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CRAZY EYE: Punkrock Thug Life with Ben johnson
Grammatical Tales On The Road With Tourettes Lautrec Ben Johnson’s adventurous 1997 tale from a tour in his early band to pre-Katrina New Orleans … Back in 1997, my band at the time, Tourettes Lautrec, was headed out on our fi rst nationwide tour. Through countless hours on the phone, calling bars that redirected you to varied booking agents and/or […]
Music Review: Magic Carpet Circus
[New Music] Of Montreal: Lousy With Sylvanbriar From Polyvinyl Records, 2013 Review by Kent Manthie Kevin Barnes’s traveling circus, aka Of Montreal are back. This time with new, mellow toxic gold (my italics) encased in the new CD, Lousy With Sylvanbriar. The tunes are smooth, groovy, laid back, a slight change from the whimsical wildness of Skeletal Lamping, or Hissing […]
Lovely, Raw and Wicked Licks
Hickoids Tweet Hairy Chafin’ Ape Suit Saustex Media Review by Kent Manthie Austin, TX’s Saustex Media has proudly just released the newest from South Texas legends, Hickoids, a band whose history goes way back to 1984. Their original “run” went from ’84 to 1991. It was in those heady days before technology and robots took over things, when there was […]