: Tender Machines CD
reviewed by Dewey Mahood
A few years back a lot of people were talking about electronic music. It was being hyped as though rock would disappear and only digital bleeps would be left. Fortunately, what actually happened...
Music Reviews
What we are listening to. Non-critically.
: Unsung Heroine CD
reviewed by Steve Silverstein
Norway's Midnight Choir create dramatic - sometimes melodramatic - tension through simplicity and subtlety. To capture their pretty and often quiet songs, they turned to engineer Phill Brown and...
: Ink CD, Psychogeography CD
reviewed by Steve Silverstein
These two records capture the raw and trashy sound of two powerful rock bands playing. They resemble the sound of Spot's Husker Du recordings or Chris Burgess's work with My Dad is Dead more than...
: Airline People
reviewed by Curtis Settino
"These recordings are outtakes from our first two U.S. albums," states the inner sleeve of this 15- minute CD. I don't know this band, so it's impossible for me to tell if these are simply songs that...
: Vinyl Killer CD
reviewed by Curtis Settino
Drums, tuba and... oh yeah, guitar mix together to create a very interesting and enjoyable instrumental sound. Overdubs of other horns, percussion and electronics fill out the arrangements. Produced...
: 1970: The Complete Funhouse Sessions CD box Set
reviewed by Phil Clark
Pretty much everyone reading this magazine should already know their way around Funhouse - it's the quintessential Stooges album - The one recorded live in the studio in LA with the band surrounded by...
: Come To Where I’m From CD
reviewed by Leigh Marble
This is one of those albums where the material and the production compliment each other so well it's hard to believe that anyone could dream it up, much less actually get it on tape. Here you get dark...
: duet for clarinet and goat CD
reviewed by Larry Crane
No, there's no goat on here. Instead, we're treated to Danny Barnes (Bad Livers, plus solo) and Pete Krebs (Hazel, Golden Delicious, solo stuff) hanging out at Danny's home studio doing some wacky...
: A Man Under the Influence CD
reviewed by Larry Crane
Alejandro has been around, many bands and many heartbreaks later we get a new album. Basic tracks were done with Mitch Easter at his Fidelitorium in Kernersville, NC. The rest was recorded and...
: 999 Levels of Undo CD
reviewed by Larry Crane
Steve Fisk is a Northwest producer of note, a sometimes member of Pell Mell, one half of Pigeonhed and a procrastinator. We've been waiting 14 years to hear a new record and this is it. Keyboards,...
: Duluth Does Dylan CD
reviewed by Larry Crane
It's not often that we think of the people who design gear as recording engineers. This CD features a bunch of artists from Duluth, Minnesota, doing Bob Dylan covers - which guarantees that the...
: Consciousness CD/LP
reviewed by Roman Sokal
Finally. It has been almost three long years since Windy Weber and Carl Hultgren took a plunge into sonic depths. And now, the duo surface with Consciousness- a welcoming release of ambience of which...