The glass bottom boat of the cultural press
This week, Christopher Long is sweatin’ bullets, while rummaging through crates of used records at Florida’s steamy outdoor Punk Rock Flea Market. And in the process, he locates a gem he’d been pursuing for years — a copy of All The Ways You Let Me Down, the 2014 pop-rock treasure from Candy Hearts — on Coke-bottle-clear / sky blue-splatter vinyl!
Reckless Thoughts (Crooked Crown). Review by Christopher Long.
Oh Glistening Onion, The Nighttime is Coming (Spacebomb). Review by Judy Craddock.
Mercy Rising (Crooked Crown Records). Review by Christopher Long.
Breathing Underwater (Dessert First Records). Review by Kyrby Raine.
Truck Was Struck (Ariadne). Review by Aaron Shaul.
Who’s behind that wise-cracking mask? More importantly, who’s that voicing his girlfriend? Longtime comics fan Steve Stav catches up with Lisa Loeb and talks MTV’s Spider-Man and the obligatory Hello Kitty.
Cake And Pie (A&M). Review by Sean Slone.
I Tried to Rock You But You Only Roll (MCA). Review by Vanessa Bormann.
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (A&M). Review by Vanessa Bormann.
When you’re the guitar prodigy son of a music legend, the pressure’s on before the first note is played. How does Dweezil Zappa handle the expectations of life in the shadow of musical genius Frank? By just having fun with it! Gail Worley shoots the breeze with the strangely named scion of the Zappa family.
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.
