Here we have a straighter, post-Beatles, ‘60s derived Pop-Rock. Every word is clear and centred, and as the title implies they’re usually concerned with the view from a more mature perspective: Bringing Up Baby and […]
This Seattle four-piece brings to mind the Pretty Girls, who you might remember from last issue. The foundation is slightly different. The Hearts’ cinderblocks are those denizens of Rhino’s D.I.Y.: UK Pop volumes, with more […]
The Background: I never found much of interest in the Archers of Loaf, the former band of Eric Bachmann, who is, basically, Crooked Fingers. And when the first CF album showed up at the old […]
An aptly titled record. Although it came out in the spring it has a decided autumnal spirit to it. The opening number, Stumbling Through The Dark, (co-written with Matthew Sweet, but without his inclusion, though […]
There was a time when a band like the Blondes, being based out in L.A., would have been snatched up by some major label (this was in the days before that was synonymous with multinational) […]
Miracle Mile is basically the nom de plume of one Trevor Jones, an English singer-songwriter-guitar player whose vocalizing is somewhere between latter days Paul Weller, Rodney Frame and the gingerly aspect of Elvis Costello. (Aided […]
If you remember two issues ago I heralded Avril Lavinge’s Sk8ter Boi as something other than the usual mass-marketed dross. It’s since gone on to be a pretty substantial hit. Coincidentally, it seems, Arista’s sister […]
For the last six months I’ve been making very slow progress on a feature on the Resonars/Matt Rendon for Off The Hip. During that time Matt has made passing remarks about recovering from his Vultures […]
Also coming into their own with their third album are these boys from New Zealand. While not a staggering work of genius, it is a focused (only one number tops four minutes), finely crafted, highly […]
You know there is only one place a band with this name could be from, New Jersey, though these recordings were done out in Albuquerque and Los Angeles during the Summer of ’66 on break […]
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