Simon Joyner
Beautiful Losers: Singles and Compilation Tracks 1994-1999 (Jagjaguwar). Review by Aaron Shaul.
Beautiful Losers: Singles and Compilation Tracks 1994-1999 (Jagjaguwar). Review by Aaron Shaul.
Neva Dinova (Crank!). Review by Stein Haukland.
Doug Kabourek was once part of the band that eventually became The Faint, but with Golden Sand and the Grandstand, he’s moved on to his own lo-fi indie pop gems as Fizzle Like a Flood. Stein Haukland gets the scoop on Kabourek’s music and that unusual name.
Terry Eagan offers up a list of the 19 diversions that brought him the most pleasure in 2001.
Hotel Lives (Truckstop). Review by Terry Eagan.
The Lousy Dance (Truckstop). Review by Mark Chester
The Christine EP (Secretly Canadian). Review by Chad Bidwell
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.