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Twinray - The Train You're on (2010)
By Nick DeRiso Twinray has produced a cloud-parting blast of pop-rock buoyancy with The Train You're On, recorded with producer/engineer Sean O'Keefe (Plain White T's, Fallout Boy, Hawthorn Heights). Their endless enthusiasm informs both the subject matter, and the merry experimentation that propels the Chicago-based band's genre-bending sound. “Do You Wanna Go," a crisp rocker that ...
Sam Trapchak's Put Together Funny - Lollipopocalypse (2010)
By S. Victor Aaron Growing up in the Detroit area, Sam Trapchak's dad played electric bass, and like most musically interested young boys in America, Sam wanted to play guitar. But his father persuaded him to take up bass instead with a piece of irrefutable logic: Everyone always needs a bassist. From there, young Sam was ...
The Friday Morning Listen: Pat Metheny - Imaginary Day (1997)
By Mark Saleski I've been reading bits and pieces of Henry Miller's The Air-Conditioned Nightmare, Miller's collection of essays about his travels around the United States. The expatriate writer had wanted to see what his homeland had become, to get to the core of it all. As with all of his work, Miller pulled no punches—there ...
One Track Mind: The Low Anthem, "This God Damn House" (2007)
By Mark Saleski I have attempted to describe this before (and I even referred to it in a recent preview of The Low Anthem's Smart Flesh), but the sensation is a difficult one to get at. Without any sort of documentation, the best I've ever been able to come up with is having an out of ...
From the Stacks: Pico's 2011 Stacks, Volume 1
Roxy Coss' self-titled debut CD is worth checking out. By S. Victor Aaron Well, I didn't expect I'd being doing this so early. Here we are just weeks into the new year and it's already time to work off some mounting stacks of CD's that have arrived since around Christmas or so. We can't let these ...
Big Sam's Funky Nation - King of the Party (2010)
By Nick DeRiso Big Sam's Funky Nation, all brass and sass, opens its latest CD with a floor-rattling invitation to shake every thing you've got. For all of its musical prowess, that remains the one and only goal of this fun-loving, funky-butt recording by New Orleans-based trombone-playing bandleader Sammie Williams, formerly of the Dirty Dozen Brass ...
Forgotten Gems: Songs We Still Love by Prince
By Something Else Reviews OK, there was the symbol thing. And the awful attempts at hip-hop phrasing. And the Sheena Easton thing. And the using of a certain ubiquitous letter of the alphabet ("Take Me With U," “I Would Die for U," “U Got the Look," “I Wish U Heaven," “Nothing Compares 2 U," so on) ...
Elton John - Greatest Hits (2002)
By Nick DeRiso The truth is, she never really left me. We would ride around, listening to eight-track tapes—or else pull a stereo speaker outside and swing on the back porch—then sing. We listened to Elton John, me and Mom. “They say Spain is pretty," I can hear her echoing, in a high voice, one summer ...
Gerald Cleaver - Be It as I See It (2011)
By S. Victor Aaron Gerald Cleaver, along with Nasheet Waits, seems to always be the drummer on some really outstanding jazz records of late. Michael Formanek's The Rub And Spare Change required virtuosic musicians playing at peak level to make it work, and Cleaver did his part and then some, helping to compel me to make ...
Unsigned Treasures: Brian Hugh O'Neill - Free World (2010)
By Nick DeRiso New York City-based Brian Hugh O'Neill can't get away from hard truths on Free World. “The light's not very kind in this place," O'Neill sings in the anthematic “Careful What You Want." “There's a shadow moving over your face." That shadow is moving, really, over the whole record, as O'Neill's characters toss and ...
