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Epicon - Globus (Globus Music)
Aug 16Nowadays a commingling of diverse music genres seem to create and embody new genres. A current example of this musical hybrid is an album called EPICON by myriad composers, known quite apropos as, GLOBUS.
Radiohead with Grizzly Bear - Comcast Center (Mansfield MA) - Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Aug 15Radiohead’s now king, but rather than press you against the wall they will lift you out of your seat.
Radiohead with Grizzly Bear - Susquehanna Bank Center (Philadelphia, PA) - Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Aug 13If there were any surprises, it was that they played so much material from The Bends.
Wilco with Jennifer O'Connor - Grand Opera House (Wilmington, DE) - Sunday, August 10, 2008
Aug 12For the second and final encore, it was a return to the older, more straight-ahead rockers.
Melvins with Big Business and Porn - The Paradise (Boston, MA) - Saturday August 9, 2008
Aug 11King Buzzo and Dale Crover = rockness personified.
Tamaryn - Led Astray, Washed Ashore (Tamaryn)
Aug 10Somber and seductive, brooding and atmospheric, Tamaryn’s debut EP is filled with the kind of shimmering songs that alto chanteuses like Nico and Siouxsie Sioux offered us in years past.
Rogue Wave with Neil Halstead - Johnny Brenda's (Philadelphia, PA) - Friday, August 8, 2008
Aug 10ROGUE WAVE came out for an encore and proceeded to play THE SMITHS classic “What Difference Does It Make”.
The Effigies with EDP - Maxwells (Hoboken, NJ) - Saturday, July 26, 2008
Aug 6I don’t want to have to wait another 20 years to see them again!
Nurse With Wound - Huffin' Rag Blues (United Dairies/Jnana)
Aug 3Steven Stapleton will cure you, and the method involves mutated jazz beats and a petrol-sodden rag.
Pitchfork Music Festival (Day 3) - Union Park (Chicago, IL) - Sunday, July 20, 2008
Jul 30KING KHAN AND THE SHRINES were just pure, animalistic, rocking garage punk fun!
The Heaters - The Great Lost Heaters Album (Salter)
Jul 30Using a combination of the original session tapes, demos, and newly recorded parts, near the end of last year the band put out a version conforming to their own sound rather than their producers’. Three decades on, the classic underneath the bad production has been revealed, proving that the excitement they generated in their home base of Los Angeles was not mere hype.
Pitchfork Music Festival (Day 2) - Union Park (Chicago, IL) - Saturday, July 19, 2008
Jul 23It started raining during JAY REATARD’s set, but it didn’t matter. In fact, it might have even made it that much more intense.
Pitchfork Music Festival (Day 1) - Union Park (Chicago, IL) - Friday, July 18, 2008
Jul 22Despite being absent for “Bring the Noise”, FLAVOR FLAV emerged right before they were set to perform “Don’t Believe the Hype”.
Boris with Torche - The Middle East (Cambridge, MA) - Friday, July 11, 2008
Jul 22Boris and Torche leave a pile of rubble and tattered eardrums.
Elliot Levin Trio - Bowery Poetry Club (NYC) – Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Jul 16Levin, a grizzled veteran by now, has come to a distinctive style that, while certainly inspired by his predecessors’ work, is never obviously derivative of anyone in particular. Nor does it stand in one place; Levin is just as likely to play a melodic phrase as to unleash flying flurries of evolving patterns arpeggiated and/or scalar or soar into the altissimo register of his tenor in ecstatic exultation.
Jack Rabid’s Top 10
Week of August 17
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Billy Bragg – Mr. Love & Justice (Anti)
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Bad Religion – New Maps of Hell (deluxe edition) (Epitaph)
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Ray Davies – Working Man’s Cafe (New West)
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Ron Sexsmith – Exit Strategy of the Soul (Yep Roc)
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Billie Holiday – Beautiful Ballads & Love Songs (Columbia/Legacy/SonyBMG)
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Everest – Ghost Notes (Vapor)
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Rob Dickinson – Fresh Wine for the Horses (double CD) (Fontana/UNI)
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Secret Shine – All of the Stars (Clairecords/Tonevendor)
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The Effigies – Reside (Criminal IQ)
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For Against – Shade Side, Sunny Side (Words on Music)