Archive for the 'review' Category

Record Review: U.S. Christmas – Run Thick In The Night

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

A few months ago one of my friends was hanging out at South By Southwest (you all know how I feel about that shit, my friend is lucky I still speak to him), and I made him promise me that he would check out U.S. Christmas. I think they were playing a Neurot showcase. I [...]

Theater Review: Rent @ The Hollywood Bowl; Los Angeles, CA

Saturday, August 7th, 2010

“Would you light my….LINE!?”
Show me another four staged productions of Rent and I might actually be able to remember what song comes next. You’ll make a theater man of me someday, Nicci! For now at least, my girlfriend has had a hand in my seeing five or six different incarnations of the rock musical. At [...]

Theater Review: CHESS @ MET Theater

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

Nicci’s in another play. Well, technically they’re calling it a “concert,” but there’s blocking and movement and stuff. I don’t know what “blocking” means, but I heard Nicci use that word before so I figured there’s a 50/50 chance I just used it in the correct context. The actors aren’t standing still and singing. It’s [...]

Zachery Allan Starkey – Solitaire

Saturday, July 10th, 2010

I walked down to my mailbox a few days ago and found it stuffed with a number of bubble mailers. These things are bound to happen when one reaches the forefront of the blogging world. Recent I have been inundated with records and CDs sent by silly PR agencies in the hopes that I will [...]

Theater Review: In The Heights @ Pantages Theater; Hollywood, CA

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

A few weeks ago Nicci was watching TV when a commercial for In The Heights aired. Her initial reaction was, “I want to see that!” which she backed with “Do you want to go with me?” Uh…not really. I thought it looked stupid. People break-dancing and singing about the ghetto? Not my cup of tea. [...]

Record Review: Woodsman – Mystery Tape

Monday, June 14th, 2010

Image courtesy of Lefse Records
In a short blurb for yesterday’s mix tape I made fun of Ian for how horribly he described a band. I need to make a point of saying that Ian has been consistently awesome in recommending me music over the tenure of our friendship. He’s got pretty good taste! One of [...]

Record Review: Harvestman / Minsk / US Christmas – Hawkwind Triad

Monday, May 17th, 2010

With all of the amazing underground psychedelic/space rock bands to emerge in the last five years, a proper Hawkwind tribute album is about as overdue as a mainstream “indie” ban on Ivy League educated fag-pop albums. Hey, look at that, I think I just coined a new genre! Call me Simon Reynolds because I’m going [...]