News and Tributes
With the possible exception of their out of character remix of Decent Days and Nights, which at least goes into a surprising direction, the sound on the Futureheads latest album, News and Tributes, does nothing to reinforce the band’s choice of name. That’s not to say that they’re not one of the more interesting bands [...]
Ten Silver Drops
It must be something else to be the Secret Machines nowadays. These three guys (two of them brothers) came straight outta Texas and scored it big with an adoration-filled podcast interview conducted by none other than David Bowie. Throw in growing attention from the media, along with a full blown world tour, and the trio [...]
Sing-a-Longs and Lullabies
If Wayne from Wayne’s World was as astutely correct as I think he was in 1992, and Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours really was issued by the government to my parents’ generation in the 70′s, then surely Jack Johnson belongs to my own at the beginning of the millennium—well, at least for those of us who have [...]
The Life Pursuit
Jack Black should issue a public apology on behalf of the character he played in the movie High Fidelity who forever tarnished the image of the Scottish indie group Belle and Sebastian as boring purveyors of “sad bastard music” to American audiences. It’s just not fair anymore. Ever since their last album, Dear Catastrophe Waitress, [...]
Brokeback Mountain
With only a few kind words to say about The Hulk and feeling a little under whelmed from the hype that originally surrounded Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, I was more than a little weary of walking into another Ang Lee movie. But if I saw any potential in either of those two films, which I’m [...]
