SHADOWPLAY – A Post-Punk/Darkwave Overview: CREUX LIES “The Hearth,” esses “Offering,” PSYCHIC RITES “Cult Memo”
Growing up and growing in to ‘the scene’ in the back-in-the-day Bay Area, it’s safe to...
Author: Dave Cantrell
Overdue Appreciations – An Occasional Column; A Mark of Respect – Kramer’s “The Brill Building, Book Two with Bill Frisell”
Before heading off on a six-week working sabbatical (I am so very far behind my duties...
LIGHTNING STRIKES – Quick but Essential Reviews for the Discerning Listener (the July 27th edition)
In a final gasp before I take a month off to concentrate solely on the post-punk...
LIGHTNING STRIKES – Quick But Essential Reviews for the Discerning Listener
WE ARE MUFFY – “The Charcoal Pool” (Tapete Records) One of the great things about songwriters...
Reactivated Dark Dream Pop Band autumn Touring Out the End of Summer
‘Venerable’ is a bit of a two-edged (s)word, isn’t it? On the one side you have...
Written with a Switchblade on a Fallen Tree – Brother Dege’s “Farmer’s Almanac”
Hey, I gotta say, this Dege Legg, DBA as Brother Dege, is a true hoodoo dude...
STEREO EMBERS VIDEO PREMIER – The Indelible “Vibration Carnation” from Avant-Songwriter Raquel Bell
Similar to the curious irony that meets the notion of an ‘outsider artist’ – that irony...
Beautiful Record with an Easy but Rarely Heard Depth – Byron Isaacs’ Debut Album “Disappearing Man”
Stepping forward – but with no great haste – from his roles as founder of roots-blues-folk...
The Softly Glowing Complexity and Subtle Contradictions of Lester Square as Evidenced on New Album “Serotonin”
The art of the subtle contradiction begins not with his name that’s not his name –...
LIGHTNING STRIKES – Quick But Essential Reviews for the Discerning Listener
ADRIAN AARDVARK – “Dying Optimistically” (Epifo Music) Archaic but not per se bespoke, psychedelic but folk...