Mixtape 107 :: Dedication
Born Ruffians hail from the Great White North, and they have an innate ability to craft razor-sharp hooks out of the simplest of riffs.
Born Ruffians hail from the Great White North, and they have an innate ability to craft razor-sharp hooks out of the simplest of riffs.
Polar Shift (Minus Head). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Mountaintops. Review by Tim Wardyn. Barsuk Records
The Long Surrender (Great Speckled Dog Records). Review by Tim Wardyn.
Bedroom Madness (Noise Pop). Review by Matthew Moyer.
November Birthday (Quite Scientific). Review by Aaron Shaul.
Burn Up & Shine (Frankly Mills Record). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Who They Are and How They Came To Be!. Review by Carl F Gauze.
Night of the Furies (Merge). Review by Aaron Shaul.
Free to Stay (Barsuk). Review by Aaron Shaul.
Morning Kills the Dark (Pop Up). Review by Aaron Shaul.
“Oh, the albums I wish I had reviewed…” says Rob Walsh , Ink 19’s overworked reviews editor.
The Orange Billboard (Hidden Agenda). Review by Aaron Shaul.
Go Slowly All the Way Round the Outside (Second Nature). Review by Aaron Shaul.
Damn! Mates of State and Rainer Maria together! What more can an indie geek (like Rob Walsh) ask for?
Frankenixon (Bi-Fi). Review by Anton Warner.
The Name Rings a Bell That Drowns out Your Voice (In ,Music We Trust). Review by Eric J. Iannelli.
Our Constant Concern (Polyvinyl). Review by Ian Koss.
Concert addict Jeremy Glazier talked with A.J. Croce near the beginning of his year-long Croce Plays Croce tour about embracing his father’s music and his own while honoring both their familial bond and shared influences.
For Lily and Generoso, 2023 was a fantastic year at the cinema! They select and review their ten favorite films, six supplemental features, and one extraordinary repertory release seen at microcinemas, archives, and festivals.
The hidden gem of the French New Wave, Le Combat Dans L’île gets a lovely Blu-ray from Radiance Films.
This fall, Ani DiFranco brought new Righteous Babe labelmate Kristen Ford to Iowa City, where Jeremy Glazier enjoyed an incredible evening of artistry.
This week Christopher Long grabs a bag of bargain vinyl from a flea market in Mount Dora, Florida — including You’re Never Alone with a Schizophrenic, the classic 1979 LP from Ian Hunter.
Bob Pomeroy gets into four Radio Rarities from producer Zev Feldman for Record Store Day with great jazz recordings from Wes Montgomery, Les McCann, Cal Tjader, and Ahmad Jamal.
Bob Pomeroy digs into Un “Sung Stories” (1986, Liberation Hall), Blasters’ frontman Phil Alvin’s American Roots collaboration with Sun Ra and his Arkestra, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, and New Orleans saxman Lee Allen.
Roi J. Tamkin reviews A Darker Shade of Noir, fifteen new stories from women writers completely familiar with the horrors of owning a body in a patriarchal society, edited by Joyce Carol Oates.
Mandatory: The Best of The Blasters (Liberation Hall). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
Feeling funky this week, Christopher Long gets his groove on while discovering a well-cared-for used vinyl copy of one of his all-time R&B faves: Ice Cream Castle, the classic 1984 LP from The Time, for just a couple of bucks.
During AFI Fest 2023, Lily and Generoso interviewed director Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir, whose impressive debut feature, City of Wind, carefully examines the juxtaposition between the identity of place and tradition against the powers of modernity in contemporary Mongolia.