Good Chakra

I need a new angle by Reviewer Rob Maybe I should try yoga. I’ve been mulling around this option for a while since I’ve been working out at the gym with weights every day, consistently, for the past 17 months, I’ve notice an expected improvement in muscle tone, strength and flexibility, but I have not reached that level of ethereal […]

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 […]

Keeping It Legit With Pussy Riot

[Music International] Pussy Riot’s true punkrawk ethos Tweet Recently, Rob at Reviewer Magazine was apparently contacted by Katya Samutsevich of the anti-Putin Moscow band Pussy Riot who spoke about her incarcerated bandmates and the fake bands… by Reviewer Rob Pussy Riot, the all-female Moscow political punkrawk band (similar in style to the San Francisco riotgrrrl bands of over a decade […]

album review: Sonia Rao, Los Angeles Part I EP

[New Music] Sonia Rao, Los Angeles Part I Tweet   Indie X   Release Date: September 17, 2013, digital download and CD   Release Events: Los Angeles—September 12; San Francisco—September 20; New York City—October 5   Reviewed by Brent D. Tharp   Sometimes, the choice of an album title conjures up all sorts of past-life imagery. Sonia Rao’s sophomore effort, […]

The New San Diego Reviewer in PRINT!

Pick Up A Copy Tweet or read it in PDF right here… Early Fall, 2013, issue 46.