Brass Trax
By
Rick Sawyer
June 30th, 2009
Few years were as successful for jazz as 1959, at least when you’re counting up five star recordings. Columbia Records has recently reissued three of these, Charles Mingus’s Mingus Ah Um, Davis’s Sketches of Spain, and Dave Brubeck’s Time Out, in deluxe two CD packages.
X is the Y of Z
By
Mark Peters
June 30th, 2009
One of my favorite lines in the South Park movie was, “When Canada is dead and gone, there’ll be no more Celine Dion.” Rest assured, I have nothing against Canada, and I know almost nothing about Celine Dion, but I know this: my mom has a creepy, humongous book of pictures of Celine Dion with babies. That’s just wrong, folks.
Album Review
By
Dryw Keltz
June 29th, 2009
The two big switches for The Eternal are the addition of Mark Ibold (ex-Pavement) as the band’s full-time bassist, and a big-time label switch, leaving their longtime home on Geffen to once again rejoin the ranks of the indies on Matador.
Album Review
By
JBev
June 28th, 2009
A lot of misconceptions will likely be blown out of the water once you get a listen to Far, Regina Spektor’s third full-length album. First of all, anyone expecting a girl behind a Steinway dishing on her lost loves over adult-contemporary, lite-FM, piano-centric arrangements will be shocked to find a pretty impressive diversity of sounds on the album.
Special Feature
By
Dryw Keltz
June 26th, 2009
Perhaps the strangest accomplishment of my life occurred on a recent weekend night when I, along with two other individuals, judged the San Diego stop of the U.S. Air Guitar Championships. I have seen plenty of unique people play at the Casbah, but never anything quite like this.
Music News
By
Douglas Newman
June 25th, 2009
If truth be told, I was never really a fan of Michael Jackson. Although I was at the ripe-for-picking age of 12 when Thriller was released, I didn’t drink the Kool-Aid. However, my closest friends and classmates did, and it wasn’t long before my suburban Jewish day school was overrun with young boys trying to do the moonwalk and wearing faux red leather jackets.
Baker's Dozen
By
Douglas Newman
June 25th, 2009
While Houston doesn’t enjoy a shiny national image, it does have a rich history. As evidence, take the following Baker’s Dozen, 13 songs about the Bayou City that just might change your perception about the country’s fourth largest metropolis…nah, probably not.
X is the Y of Z
By
Mark Peters
June 25th, 2009
Jealous, traitorous, duplicitous, and murderous: That’s what the name Antonio Salieri means to the masses, even though the Venetian was a talented composer who didn’t kill Mozart and was far from being the Dr. Evil of the classical music world.
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