The glass bottom boat of the cultural press
It’s a rather wacky and kinda complicated story, but this week Christopher Long receives multiple mint-condition copies of Who’s Your Buddy?, the downright dreadful 1987 debut album from the award-winning heavy metal band, Dead Serios. And he got ‘em all, for FREE!
Sunswept (Sunswept Records). Review by Christopher Long.
24th Street Blues (Bohemian Neglect Records). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
In the news today: The Dillinger Escape Plan, R.E.M., Breaking Benjamin, Jasen Rauch, Janelle Monáe, Gordon Lightfoot, Grandaddy, Nikki Sixx. Mötley Crüe, Ghost, Vinyl, Rammstein, Eurovision, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Four Tet, Kieran Hebden, William Tyler, Willie Nelson, Imagine Dragons, The Hives, Gorilla Biscuits, Fleetwood Mac, Stevie Nicks
At The Carousel Ballroom April 24, 1968 (Renew Records). Review by James Mann.
You Don’t Know Me (Southpaw Musical Productions). Review by Christopher Long.
Annals of My Glass House (Blue Gentian Records). Review by Tim Wardyn.
The Essential “Weird Al” Yankovic (Legacy Recordings). Review by Tim Wardyn.
Poseidon and the Bitter Bug (IG Recordings/Vanguard Records). Review by Tim Wardyn.
Rock That Babe (Signature Records). Review by Tim Wardyn.
“Melodic with a touch of groove and an anemic, very white approach to the vocals, but still soulful.” Gail Worley talks to Johnny Marr, currently of The Healers and formerly of the Smiths, and manages to keep it together. Mostly.
With the thirty-fifth anniversary of debut album Whirlpool, UK shoegaze outfit Chapterhouse is back together again and touring the US as part of Slide Away Music Festival.
The Englert theater hosted Little Feat as they embark on their Last Farewell Tour.
Meiko Kaji’s katana is sharp and looking for revenge in Wandering Ginza Butterfly and its sequel, She Cat Gambler, a stylish pair of early ’70s action films.
