by osmosis

Firstly, the use of the phrase “blissed-out” shouldn’t simply be disallowed. Secondly, the term “soundscape” is a contrived, pseudo intellectual cop out for when writers don’t have anything too valid to comment upon. And if you read anything from Pitchfork or the generally buoyant Brainwashed, you might run into those terms when exploring the new […]

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Beginning as the foil to Billy Childish’s Thee Headcoats, Holly Golightly and her music have been steeped in American blues, country and garage for the past twenty years. Getting hipped to the blossoming Medway scene – and included in it – allowed Golightly an unlikely internship with one of the most prolific song writers of […]

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NPR is great at just about anything they do, so it only makes sense that they would have a high quality concert series streaming from their website for free.  Gathered mostly from the 9:30 Club in Washington, DC, All Songs Considered has an impressive archive of some of the best live music around.  The front […]

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As codified as the punk, country and reggae genres are, metal seems to be as concerned with musical repetition as with its otherworldly outward persona. Music, of course, is just a business and while there are artists that languish in the medium who attempt to create something new, it seems as if one’s shtick needs […]

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Leaving us with 2007’s RoadKillOverCoat, Busdriver seemed uncomfortable. He was out of place somehow, felt discombobulated. The beats on that disc, while thumpers, didn’t really seem to fit the rapper, nor he them. From occasional moments on “Mr. Mistakes” to the production on “The Troglodyte Wins”, the album possesses some successful moments, but nothing that […]

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To figure that the new disc from the Intelligence is pop oriented would be a pretty abysmal calculation. But when considered in light of its 2007 In the Red Records release of Deuteronomy, that perception might be at least valid within the sphere of the Intelligence’s catalog.
Lars Finberg’s trek through Seattle rock and roll led […]

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Perceiving a music has a great deal to do with the time and place that one encounters it. It’s kinda like the difference between watching a movie on a big screen or your laptop. The experience can impact the film, painting, band or whatever dependent upon the viewers situation. There’s some trumped up philosophical discourse […]

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Zs is an overwhelmingly enigmatic group. Since its inception in 2000, the band has been a quartet and a sextet prior to arriving at the current setting of Sam Hillmer (tenor sax), Ben Greenberg (electric guitar) and Ian Antonio (percussion). Performing and recording, these changes have affected the way in which the group approaches not […]

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If you’re able to recall the John Hammond album, Wicked Grin from a few years back on which the blues player works out a number of Tom Waits tunes in a full band setting, this newest disc from Ramblin’ Jack Elliott treads on roughly the same territory. Conceptually, at least.
A Stranger Here isn’t devoted to […]

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Since La Blogotheque basically has the patent on all handheld, single take, music performance videos, I'm obligated to reference their work when watching the Silverlake Steps videos.  Call it the west coast Take Away Show - or just call it awesome - Silverlake Steps showcases bands playing quick outdoors sets while in town for a […]

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