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Music
Rachel Taylor Brown – CD Review
Rachel Taylor Brown Susan Storm’s Ugly Sister and Other Saints and Superheroes Cutthroat Pop 8/10 Rachel Taylor Brown...
Into The Presence – Self Titled – CD Review
Into the Presence Self-Titled Razor & Tie 4/10 It is really difficult for me to NOT like records....
Eddy Current Suppression Ring – Self Titled – CD Review
Eddy Current Suppression Ring Self Titled Goner Records 7/10 This sounds like ass. I love it. It’s simple,...
Flaming Lips – Show Review
The Flaming Lips don’t just put on a show, they have created a spectacle. This isn’t just a...
Rock The Bells 2009 – Show Review
Since 2004, Guerilla Union has thrown the Rock the Bells music festival every summer touring coast to coast,...
Incubus – Show Review
Incubus Hollywood Bowl, Hollywood, CA July 13, 2009 So-called “semi-celebrity” Candice Brown and I each shelled out eighty...
Kava Kava – CD Review and Free Ringtone
Kava Kava Forwards Midnight Swimming 6/10 Hmm…Kava Kava. Not quite sure what to make of this. For one...
Jones Street Station – In Verses – CD Review
Jones Street Station In Verses Smith Street Records 7/10 Brooklyn band Jones Street Station does have a few...
Adam Marsland – Go West – CD Review
Adam Marsland Go West Karma Dog Records 8/10 Concept albums are a difficult tack. Double albums are even...
Wheat – White Ink Black Ink – CD Review
Wheat White Ink Black Ink The Rebel Group 8/10 Wheat definitely started out as a four piece –...
Only For The Night – Show Review
Only For The Night, Pickaxe, and The Sleeping Sea King Romano’s July 18, 2009 Let me tell you...
Willie Nelson – American Classic – CD Review
Willie Nelson American Classic Blue Note 9/10 I don’t care if you’re a redneck with a Jeff Gordon...
Girl in a Coma – Trio B.C. – CD Review
Girl in a Coma Trio B.C. Blackheart Records 10/10 Hailing from San Antonio, Sisters Nina and Phanie Diaz,...
Ne-Yo and Keri Hilson – Show Review
Keri Hilson and Ne-Yo Live San Manuel Casino, Ontario, CA July 2nd, 2009 While families celebrated the 4th...
Horror Squad – Show Review
Horror Squad Friar Tuck’s 7/1/09 Last night I went to see my friends from the Horror Squad play...