Deathly the Dog Spider Bites CD-Single Self-Released Review by Kent Manthie Deathly the Dog – This is your life! – A relatively new, up & coming band, out of Tennessee; Johnson City, TN, to be exact, DTD are a duo that shows an influence of old school hardcore as well as some anti-commercial indie rock […]
The Rise and Fall of Shaun Fighting a Battle When You’ve Already Lost the War EP Self-Released, 2014 Review by Kent Manthie At the age of 14, Shaun Tutt picked up the guitar and got started on a musical journey that has, so far, lasted a lifetime. In the years since he got into the […]
This is a video for the song “Tell-Tale Penis” which is on the 2008 CD, Boo! Human. – If you’re a hardcore cinephile, you will recognize that this video is JOA’s take on one of the best movies of the 1960s – if not of all time: Jean-Luc Godard’s 1967 Weekend. In the film, a young […]
here is a video of Joan of Arc playing “Shown and Told” live. It is priceless. Very well done. I just couldn’t pass it up. -KM
Tim Kinsella Tim Kinsella Sings the Songs of Marvin Tate by LeRoy Bach Featuring Angel Olsen Joyful Noise Records Review by Kent Manthie Marvin Tate. What can I say about this guy? A lot, as it turns out. For one thing, he has a somewhat childlike aura about him – and I mean that in […]
Katya Sanna La Via Delle Stelle Self-Released Review by Kent Manthie When listening to the latest CD by Italian singer/songwriter Katya Sanna, I was totally unsure of what to expect. After the album started, though, I found myself presently entranced, like falling, falling, falling, carefree, down a dark, black hole someplace that, somehow, kept the […]
Cate LeBon Mug Museum Self-Released Review by Kent Manthie This, the third release by Welsh neo-folike Cate LeBon, Mug Museum, is an ethereal album of folk-pop cuts. Some have likened LeBon to the late German chanteuse, Nico, made famous by her appearance on the debut Velvet Underground album, The Velvet Underground and Nico. After that […]
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