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Music | Thursday, December 1,2005

At least Granny rocks

An 83-year-old highlights the Fiery Furnaces’ latest effort

By René Spencer Saller
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
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Music | Wednesday, November 23,2005

Ambassador from poetry land

The Silver Jews’ music has never sounded more essential than it does in Tanglewood

By René Spencer Saller
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
Music | Thursday, November 17,2005

A spoonful of sugar

Add Calexico to the mix, and it's easier to like Iron & Wine

By René Spencer Saller
Unless we’re talking about, oh, I don’t know, Ken Mehlman’s sex life, there are no guilty pleasures. If pleasures could induce guilt, confessing them
Music | Thursday, November 10,2005

A slump so sublime

Love Kraft is a good album by SFA's standards

By René Spencer Saller
Love Kraft, the Super Furry Animals’ seventh studio album, begins with a splash — literally. It’s the sound of guitarist Huw “Bunf&#
Music | Thursday, November 3,2005

The Lady Lou bounce

Ebony Eyez kicks out a worthy addition to the St. Louis hip-hop canon

By René Spencer Saller
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
Music | Thursday, October 27,2005

Not your typical narcissist

Somehow Chocolate Genius keeps things from getting maudlin

By René Spencer Saller
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
Music | Thursday, October 20,2005

Hard to label this Apple

No matter who twiddles the knobs, it’s Fiona’s show

By René Spencer Saller
Like Wilco’s Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Fiona Apple’s Extraordinary Machine comes with a juicy backstory about the big, bad recording industry. Wilco, as
Music | Wednesday, October 12,2005

A triumph of soul over style

A jazz tribute to Pavement sounds like a bad idea. It’s not.

By René Spencer Saller
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
Music | Wednesday, October 5,2005

Sandpaper dipped in sorghum

Bettye LaVette back with a masterpiece

By René Spencer Saller
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
Music | Thursday, September 22,2005

Weirdly endearing torture music

Gittin' strange with Skeletons and Girl-Faced Boys

By René Spencer Saller
Skeletons and the Girl-Faced Boys Git (Ghostly/Shinkoyo) Stravinsky once opined that Beethoven’s “Grosse Fuge” is an ̶