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Episode 113: Trou Noir
- The Lacking Organization
- July 10, 2020
Double Date With Death are loud and Canadian, and they don’t care if you don’t understand their French howling. They have a double date to get to.
Episode 112: The Juice
- The Lacking Organization
- July 7, 2020
Well into their third decade, G. Love and Special Sauce still sound like they are in no particular hurry to get there.
Episode 102: Drama King
- The Lacking Organization
- May 29, 2020
As you may suspect, Peter Bjorn and John hail from Sweden, and as you may expect, they do Anglophonic indie pop better than the Anglophones.
Sparks
- Music Reviews
- May 27, 2020
A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip (BMG). Review by Generoso Fierro.
Top Less Gay Love Tekno Party
- Music Reviews
- December 27, 2013
Top Less Gay Love Tekno Party. Review by Carl F Gauze.
Dancing Barefoot: The Patti Smith Story
- Print Reviews
- December 13, 2011
Matthew Moyer thinks Dave Thompson’s Patti Smith bio just might tide you over until Smith delivers on the promised second volume of her memoir.
Electric Six
- Music Reviews
- November 11, 2011
Heartbeats and Brainwaves (Metropolis Records). Review by Carl F Gauze.

They Might Be Giants
- Music Reviews
- August 23, 2011
Join Us (Idlewild). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Sparks: No. 1 Songs In Heaven
- Print Reviews
- November 1, 2010
Lucky for us and Cherry Red Books, Dave Thompson is a HUGE Sparks fan. Matthew Moyer calls Sparks: No. 1 Songs in Heaven his strongest piece of writing yet.
Spring Tigers
- Music Reviews
- December 30, 2009
Mini-LP (Bright Antenna). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Beaten Awake
- Music Reviews
- December 30, 2009
Thunder$troke (Fat Possum Records LLC). Review by Carl F Gauze.
The Bodies Obtained
- Music Reviews
- December 16, 2009
Dead Plans (Finding You Attractive). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Killola
- Music Reviews
- June 10, 2009
I Am The Messer (Self Released). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Simon Bookish
- Music Reviews
- February 13, 2009
Everything/Everything (Tomlab). Review by Matthew Moyer.

Cheap Trick
- Music Reviews
- February 3, 2009
Live At Budokan (Epic/Legacy). Review by Scott Adams.
Number 47: Fringe 2005 Edition
- Archikulture Digest
- May 20, 2005
The latest, hippest gossip on the Central Florida theater scene, plus a bunch of stuff Carl F Gauze just made up.
Sparks
- Music Reviews
- May 17, 2004
Lil’ Beethoven (Palm Pictures). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Johnny Marr
- Interviews
- May 15, 2003
"Melodic with a touch of groove and an anemic, very white approach to the vocals, but still soulful." Gail Worley talks to Johnny Marr, currently of The Healers and formerly of the Smiths, and manages to keep it together. Mostly.
Kristian Hoffman
- Music Reviews
- July 2, 2002
& (eggBERT). Review by Giorgio Portagrier.
Jim O’Rourke
- Music Reviews
- December 26, 2001
Insignificance (Drag City). Review by David Sussex.

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- Music Reviews
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- Interviews
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