At first, I was hesitant as to whether or not I wanted to review this cassette without the book that was released with it. Let me jump back in time about a year, as this was released as a CD or digital or whatever in November of last year. My plan was to… Continue reading Throwing Muses at Raised by Gypsies
Author: mike
Throwing Muses at See Sound
If ever an album was appropriate to its band’s name it’s this, muses thrown out over 32 tracks , traversing their very own “Inferno”. There are many short tracks with fully formed pin-sharp alt rock like Morning Birds 1 (with it’s fantastic and fearsome opening minute it has an urgency that gives no time for… Continue reading Throwing Muses at See Sound
The Primitives at Dagger Zine
After not being around for over two decades this sugary UK pop quartet returned in 2012 with ECHOES & RHYMES (and album of 60’s covers). I never heard that one and while friends tell me it’s good, you want to hear if a returning band can still write an album full of originals. I have… Continue reading The Primitives at Dagger Zine
The Primitives at Huffington Post
What’s most impressive with the Primitives first release in over twenty years isn’t just the fact that they’ve released an album, (which is the case for almost every legend act making an attempt to return to the zeitgeist) but the fact that it holds up against their early work AND against all the bands and… Continue reading The Primitives at Huffington Post
The Primitives at Canada Daily
What’s many considerable with a Primitives initial recover in over twenty years isn’t usually a fact that they’ve expelled an album, (which is a box for roughly each fable act creation an try to lapse to a zeitgeist) though a fact that it binds adult opposite their early work AND opposite all a bands and… Continue reading The Primitives at Canada Daily
Close Lobsters at This Wreckage
Somehow, I mostly missed Scottish band Close Lobsters back in the late 80s, but I didn’t completely miss them. At some point, I picked up a couple of their EPs used, and I still have their excellent song “Lovely Little Swan” on a bizarre 1990 K-Tel Records “modern rock” compilation called The Edge of Rock that I bought simply for the cheap… Continue reading Close Lobsters at This Wreckage
Joe Jack Talcum at Raised by Gypsies
One of the biggest mistakes that I make when listening to a cassette that is a collection of songs spanning years such as this is that I try to see it as one cohesive sort of release when in fact it was released over the course of six years on various projects and so this… Continue reading Joe Jack Talcum at Raised by Gypsies
Muuy Biien at Online Athens
I’m a snob about punk music, a genre which I place into a finite definition. For many, merely having fast guitars and snide lyrics is enough to rise to the punk label — allowing bands such as Blink 182 to be considered punk when nothing could be further from the truth. No, punk music is… Continue reading Muuy Biien at Online Athens
Crayon at Clicky Clicky Music Blog
A dusty blue, early ’90s Toyota Corolla: we can picture it in our head, we can smell it, we can see the cassette tapes it contained. And when we think of riding in the great Pete Torgo’s car during our later college years, we think of Crayon‘s “The Snap-Tight Wars,” a tremendous, hook-laden indie-pop classic we… Continue reading Crayon at Clicky Clicky Music Blog
Crayon at Dagger Zine
Wow, this was certainly a blast from the past that I had nearly forgotten about. This record by this Bellingham, WA band was originally released on Tim Alborn’s Harriet Records label (Tim also published the half-size zine Incite!). This band included Sean Tollefson (bass vocals), Brad Robert (guitar/ vocals) and Jeff Fell (drums). Both Sean… Continue reading Crayon at Dagger Zine