Robots & Aliens: Deep Liner Notes (1996-1999)
Charles DJ Deppner reviews Carl King’s look back at an amusement park made for robots, aliens, and The Dawn of Sir Millard Mulch.
Charles DJ Deppner reviews Carl King’s look back at an amusement park made for robots, aliens, and The Dawn of Sir Millard Mulch.
Raw, stinging, and pungent like a freshly-cut onion, The Bobby Lees quickly peel away their layers to share their tender, pearl-white hearts.
How to Sell the Whole F#@!ing Universe to Everybody Once and For All (Mimicry). Review by Michael Crown.
Lit (DRT / Nitrus / Dirty Martini). Review by Sir Millard Mulch.
Sir Millard Mulch dares to talk on the phone with the lovely ladies of phenomenally successful songwriting team The Matrix about their debut as performing artists.
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What’s inside the Sleepytime Gorilla Museum? What are its operating hours, and is there a gift shop? Do seniors get a discount? Sir Millard Mulch , lacking a proper brochure, details the workings of an improbable destination with Nils Frykdahl.
Delerium Cordia (Ipecac). Review by Sir Millard Mulch.
Delerium Cordia (Ipecac). Review by Sir Millard Mulch.
Split 7” (AAJ). Review by Daniel Mitchell.
Accelerated Evolution (InsideOut / SPV). Review by Stein Haukland.
Perhaps Sir Millard Mulch should have asked Dr. Hal why he feels compelled to write up events in police report style. A look at a unique question-and-answer session.
Happiness (self-released). Review by Sir Millard Mulch.
Vanessa Carlton at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco, CA on November 10, 2002. Concert review by Sir Millard Mulch.
Sir Millard Mulch gets a preview of director Frank Scheffer’s new documentary on the legendary Frank Zappa at a special advance screening, to let you know if it are what it is.
Hawkeye And Firebird (Menlo Park). Review by Kurt Channing.
Sir Millard Mulch walks among the true believers and conspiracy theorists at the 4th Annual Bay Area UFO Expo, and comes away with a surprising education.
Mike Keneally, with Henry Kaiser’s Palace of Love and Telepathy at Great American Music Hall in San Francisco, CA on October 17, 2002. Concert review by Sir Millard Mulch.
Colonel Claypool’s Bucket of Bernie Brains at Great American Music Hall in San Francisco, CA on September 16, 2002. Concert review by Sir Millard Mulch.
The De-Evolution of Yasmine Bleeth (Ed Furniture). Review by Julio Diaz.
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.
Juliana Hatfield Sings ELO (American Laundromat Records). Review by Laura Pontillo.
Ever-focused on finding (affordable) vinyl treasures, Christopher Long returns this week with his latest gem — a reasonably well-cared-for LP copy of The Glow, the 1979 studio classic from Bonnie Raitt.