2007, Tribulation Recording Company
Hellfire Hymns, the second full length from Wisconsin’s Those Poor Bastards, is a masterpiece of infernal atmosphere.
Monthly Archive for February, 2007
Christopher Nolan, director of the excellent films Memento and Insomnia, may not have leapt forward here, but even his trifles are a damn sight better than most of what passes through Hollywood’s collective terlet these days.
Lucinda Williams
Car Wheels on a Gravel Road Outtakes
Soundboard
Note: Some songs have been excluded because they are now available on the Car Wheels on a Gravel Road deluxe edition, released in 2006.
Continue reading ‘Hosted Live Download: Lucinda Williams; ‘Car Wheels on a Gravel Road’ Outtakes’
Could anyone but Bob Dylan produce something like Modern Times and receive near-universal acclaim? Case-in-point: Lucinda Williams‘ West, released last week to very mixed reviews.
Continue reading ‘Editorial: Lucinda Williams & Modern Times’
No kidding:
U.S. Senator James Inhofe, the slow-witted Republican and obviously under-qualified member of the Environment and Public Works committee, says that global warming is a left wing, Weather Channel terrorist conspiracy. That’s right, this has nothing to do with big, negligent corporations who are unwilling save human lives by cutting emissions.
On Fox News, Inhofe says: “Those individuals from the far left, and I’m talking about the Hollywood elitists, and the United Nations, and those individuals, want us to believe it’s because we’re contributing CO2 to the atmosphere that’s causing global warming. It’s all about money, I mean, what would happen to the Weather Channel’s ratings if people weren’t scared anymore?”
2007, World Village
If you are sick of tepid Western interpretations of African music, check out the real thing.
2007, Vagrant Records
Now that the White Stripes have signed to Warner, The Hold Steady have inherited the title of Today’s Hands-Down Best Straightforward Indie Rock Band.
Continue reading ‘The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America’
2007, Merge
Neon Bible lacks Funeral’s immediate pop appeal, but this album is no less intriguing.
2007, Yep Roc Records
Is Apples In Stereo mastermind Robert Schneider a champion of the skip button (which I haven’t used so much since Modest Mouse’s Good News), or does he really think that between-track interludes are necessary- like skits on a hip-hop album?
Continue reading ‘The Apples In Stereo - New Magnetic Wonder’
Babel is the most ambitious effort to date from the screenwriting/directing team of Guillermo Arriaga and Alejandro González Iñárritu.
