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Music | Wednesday, November 23,2005
Ambassador from poetry land
The Silver Jews’ music has never sounded more essential than it does in Tanglewood
Almost no one reads poetry anymore, which
means that you probably haven’t read Actual Air, one of the very
few poetry collections written by a working singer/songwriter
Music | Thursday, November 17,2005
A spoonful of sugar
Add Calexico to the mix, and it's easier to like Iron & Wine
Unless we’re talking about, oh, I
don’t know, Ken Mehlman’s sex life, there are no guilty
pleasures. If pleasures could induce guilt, confessing them
Music | Thursday, November 10,2005
A slump so sublime
Love Kraft is a good album by SFA's standards
Love Kraft, the
Super Furry Animals’ seventh studio album, begins with a
splash — literally. It’s the sound of guitarist Huw
“Bunf&#
Music | Thursday, November 3,2005
The Lady Lou bounce
Ebony Eyez kicks out a worthy addition to the St. Louis hip-hop canon
Ebony Eyez
7 Day Cycle
(Capitol)
The first female rapper from St.
Louis to score a major-label deal, Ebony Eyez seems fully aware of
her precedent-setting
Music | Thursday, October 27,2005
Not your typical narcissist
Somehow Chocolate Genius keeps things from getting maudlin
Some geniuses are prolific; others
take their sweet slowpoke time. Count Marc Anthony Thompson in the
latter category. Over a career spanning more than two decades, the
Music | Thursday, October 20,2005
Hard to label this Apple
No matter who twiddles the knobs, it’s Fiona’s show
Like Wilco’s Yankee Hotel Foxtrot,
Fiona Apple’s Extraordinary
Machine comes with a juicy backstory
about the big, bad recording industry. Wilco, as
Music | Wednesday, October 12,2005
A triumph of soul over style
A jazz tribute to Pavement sounds like a bad idea. It’s not.
A jazz tribute to Pavement sounds like a
bad idea — at best a willfully silly experiment conceived by
a gaggle of giggling stoners, at worst a transparent attempt to
Music | Wednesday, October 5,2005
Sandpaper dipped in sorghum
Bettye LaVette back with a masterpiece
As everyone from Homer to Oprah can
attest, people love comeback stories, the heartwarming testimonials
of odds-beaters and fate-cheaters, the inspirational tales of
Music | Thursday, September 29,2005
Thank heaven for little girls
Gary Puckett and the Union Gap revisit success of the 60s
Gary Puckett and the Union Gap were almost
unfathomably popular in the late 1960s. Wearing Civil War regalia (complete
with fake military ranks) and pounding out lush, almost bizarrely
Music | Thursday, September 22,2005
Weirdly endearing torture music
Gittin' strange with Skeletons and Girl-Faced Boys
Skeletons and the Girl-Faced Boys
Git
(Ghostly/Shinkoyo)
Stravinsky once opined that
Beethoven’s “Grosse Fuge” is an ̶
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