The Fiery Furnaces
Rehearsing My Choir
(Rough Trade)
If you thought Blueberry
Boat was a buttload of bull, steer
clear of Rehearsing My Choir, a wildly p
Almost no one reads poetry anymore, which
means that you probably haven’t read Actual Air, one of the very
few poetry collections written by a working singer/songwriter
Ebony Eyez
7 Day Cycle
(Capitol)
The first female rapper from St.
Louis to score a major-label deal, Ebony Eyez seems fully aware of
her precedent-setting
Some geniuses are prolific; others
take their sweet slowpoke time. Count Marc Anthony Thompson in the
latter category. Over a career spanning more than two decades, the
A jazz tribute to Pavement sounds like a
bad idea — at best a willfully silly experiment conceived by
a gaggle of giggling stoners, at worst a transparent attempt to
As everyone from Homer to Oprah can
attest, people love comeback stories, the heartwarming testimonials
of odds-beaters and fate-cheaters, the inspirational tales of