Mixtape 144 :: Model Village
I am generally skeptical and disrespectful of band names with special capitalization, but IDLES look and sound like they mean business.
I am generally skeptical and disrespectful of band names with special capitalization, but IDLES look and sound like they mean business.
Matchmaker Dolly Levy makes her own match, saving some young woman from the grouchy yet wealthy Horace Vandegelt as live theater returns to Winter Garden.
Notes and quotes on the first day of technical previews for the 2018 Orlando Fringe.
Anomaly (Bronx Born Records). Review by Christopher Long.
Anam Cara (Hello, Sir! Records). Review by P. McEver.
Hello, Voyager (Constellation). Review by Jen Cray.
Hello (Accretions). Review by Matt Cibula.
Hello (54°40’ or Fight!). Review by Daniel Mitchell.
Hello (Island). Review by Vanessa Bormann.
The Last Place on Earth (self-released). Review by Marcel Feldmar.
Hello (Alternative Tentacles). Review by Matthew Moyer.
You can’t accuse They Might Be Giants of being slackers. After more than 15 years together, the already-prolific band is releasing a boatload of music, including work on Malcolm in the Middle and their first children’s album. Julio Diaz cornered John Flansburgh during a rare moment off, and got the latest on this extremely talented – and busy! – band.
For a masochist like myself, living in such a sunny climate might be the end of me…..I would start preaching on street-corners, and recruiting young girls to become my henchmen, my right-hand….well, not men, I guess……right-hand girls, yeah, girls…..my right-hand girls in the most ingenious plans ever laid out!
In 1977, Here at Last… Bee Gees …Live cemented the Bee Gees’ budding reputation as world-class master songsmiths. 46 years later, longtime Ink 19 writer Christopher Long nabs a well-loved $6 vinyl copy at a Florida flea market — replacing his long-loved and lost-to-the-ages original record.
All-American music legend Bonnie Raitt played the Riverwind Casino Showplace Theatre in Norman, Oklahoma, recently while on her Live 2025 international concert tour. Longtime Ink 19 contributor Christopher Long was there and got the goods.
“Little Dreaming” (Darkroom / Polydor / Capitol). Review by Danielle Holian.
Everything Changes, Everything Stays the Same (Tapete Records). Review by Peter Lindblad.
Stories I Only Tell My Friends (Blackbird Records). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
Bone Bells (Pyroclastic Records). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
In this installment of his popular weekly series, Christopher Long recalls rolling up on a used record joint in Myrtle Beach where he scored a clean and quiet vinyl copy of Hermit of Mink Hollow, the 1978 masterpiece from Todd Rundgren, for just $2.
Ink 19 spoke with Brendan James to discuss the inspiration behind Chasing Light, his uniquely alluring sound, and why he makes music.