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Music | Wednesday, April 19,2006
{after 1st article on article listing} This dog Van Hunt
He’s black and he wears funny hats — what are we supposed to call him?
Van Hunt is the protégé of American Idol judge
Randy Jackson, but try to keep an open mind. (Yeah, I know —
it’s hard not to declare a pox on all th
Music | Thursday, April 13,2006
Experiment with pleasure
Of all of Brazil's wonderfully weird cultural exports, Tom Zé may be the weirdest
They grow
’em weird in Brazil, and of all Brazil’s wonderfully
weird cultural exports, Tom Zé may be the weirdest and most
wonderful. Zé
Music | Thursday, April 6,2006
The song’s the thing
You may think you don’t know Jules Shear, but you’d be wrong
You might not
think you know who Jules Shear is, but you’ve probably heard
at least one of his songs. Although the 54-year-old Pittsburgh
native has been p
Music | Thursday, March 30,2006
True to form, brilliantly
Centro-matic can make the same record over and over and never get boring
Will Johnson, Centro-matic’s singer,
guitarist, and principal songwriter, is more than a frontman;
he’s a frickin’ franchise. Besides cranking out eight
Music | Thursday, March 23,2006
Contemporary antiquaries
Kiefer and Kraus are a pair of time-traveling minstrels
Christian Kiefer and Sharron Kraus
The Black Dove
(Tompkins Square)
On their first collaboration,
songwriter/brainiacs Christian Kiefer (a Ph.D. candidate in
Music | Thursday, March 16,2006
Our wild American
Kris Kristofferson has lived enough for 20 men, and he’s not done yet.
Rhodes scholar. Army pilot.
Janitor. Singer/songwriter. Drunkard. Movie star. Kris
Kristofferson, who turns 70 this year, has lived enough for 20 men,
and heR
Music | Thursday, March 9,2006
Eek! Amid Eef’s gems, a gaffe or two
Barzelay’s solo debut: one measly voice and one measly acoustic guitar
Eef Barzelay’s solo debut is
exactly that: a solo album, consisting entirely of one measly voice
and one measly acoustic guitar (well, almost — one very short
Music | Wednesday, March 1,2006
Reaching beyond his inner geek
Never before has a Destroyer album sounded so accessible
Destroyer leader Daniel Bejar is
the perfect pinup boy for a small but insanely devoted faction of
rock critics, music bloggers, grad-school dropouts, and die-hard
Music | Thursday, February 23,2006
A Kink in the pink
Ray Davies proves he's the best of the aging '60s British invaders
Ray Davies
Other People’s Lives
(V2)
Of all the aging veterans of the
’60s British Invasion, Ray Davies has held up the best. Sure,
Mick has harder abs and Sir
Music | Wednesday, February 15,2006
Blind Joe Death lives
I Am the Resurrection isn’t your typical tribute album.
Is it wrong to look a tribute album
in the mouth? It seems nasty, I know, to compare well-meaning
musicians to gasbag grandees hogging the dais at a televised
fu
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