Comment on any CD Review in Reader's Respo™ Make sure you title your comment so we know which review you're talking about. You can also discuss local music 24/7 at The Noise Board SARAH RABDAU & SELF-EMPLOYED ASSASSINS Say it With Scissors Records Sarah Rabdau & Self-Employed Assassins 12-song CD Well, I suppose a lazy reviewer might listen to the magisterial track twelve and trot out the usual references to Dead Can Dance and the like, but there’s something more than … Read More >>
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THE WEISSTRONAUTS StereOrrific I’m Dreaming of The Weisstronauts’ Christmas 5-song CD Pete Weiss rounds up the cowboys (and gals), takes ’em surfin’ in December, and ends up with this rightly styled circle o’ plastic, just the right size for a Christmas present. Light a fire and kick back to the surf-country feel of “Jingle Bells.” If you want to get up for some swing dancin’, try “Nuthin’ Comin’ Good This Christmas.” But if that tuckers you out, kick … Read More >>
Comment on any CD Review in Reader's Respo™ Make sure you title your comment so we know which review you're talking about. You can also discuss local music 24/7 at The Noise Board WALTER SICKERT & THE ARMY OF BROKEN TOYS Casualty Menagerie 6-song CD Having been a fan for many years, I have looked forward to this CD ever since I heard their dark, brooding, eerie debut. Walter and Edrie’s shows are always about demented spectacle, twisted torment, and … Read More >>
Comment on any CD Review in Reader's Respo™ Make sure you title your comment so we know which review you're talking about. You can also discuss local music 24/7 at The Noise Board WEISSTRONAUTS Sool Recordings/Dren Records Instro-tainment 14-song CD Already Weisstronauts album number four has arrived. And once again these exemplars of great and wicked fun have burst upon the scene with their frolics and their gee-whiz chops and have taken the world by storm. Well—maybe not the world. … Read More >>
Comment on any CD Review in Reader's Respo™ Make sure you title your comment so we know which review you're talking about. You can also discuss local music 24/7 at The Noise Board KAY HANLEY DeGuerre Records Weaponize 12-song CD Eighteen-years and seven-plus studio albums later, Kay Hanley maintains her grasp on gleeful arrogance while surrendering to her trademark youthful voice. The former Letters To Cleo frontwoman has held her own in the solo world without compromising her dedicated fan … Read More >>
Comment on any CD Review in Reader's Respo™ Make sure you title your comment so we know which review you're talking about. You can also discuss local music 24/7 at The Noise Board AXEMUNKEE Tigrette Records SideWalk Mary 10-song CD The last time I got my head completely smacked like this was by a record from Abunai! many years ago. It’s that rare kinda mind-melt that can be many things to many people. It’s psychedelic, dark, jaunty, spiritual, playful, sinister, … Read More >>
Comment on any CD Review in Reader's Respo™ Make sure you title your comment so we know which review you're talking about. You can also discuss local music 24/7 at The Noise Board DAVE ARONOFF & THE PROTAGONISTS Topless Records Dead Bird for Dinner 10-song CD Nice. A ten song, live-in-studio, pure product of America. “Dead to Me” sets the tone; it’s a mock-indignant kiss-off-cum-travelogue. This is followed by a winsome ballad (“In the Dark”), a jealous lament (“Brand … Read More >>
Comment on any CD Review in Reader's Respo™ Make sure you title your comment so we know which review you're talking about. You can also discuss local music 24/7 at The Noise Board THE LENNY SOLOMON BAND Not Life Threatening Music Maybe Today 14-song CD The Lenny Solomon Band plays a modern variation of good ole Creedence, with a dash of Petty, and a splash of Wilco. They have just enough country twang and lite-rockin’ folksy blues … Read More >>