Popdose (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
The Scissormen play raucous blues along the lines of the Flat Duo Jets or the Black Keys, with guitar and drums. One half of the duo, Ted Drozdowski, is a maniac blues scholar who also happens to be a well-respected music journalist with a jones for playing his guitar live. The group’s currently riding the [...]
prefixmag.com (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
Helena Espvall and Masaki Batoh make for one hell of a psych-folk-art-rock power pairing. You may know Espvall as a cellist who plays with Espers, other acts, and records as a solo artist; and Batoh as a guitarist with Japanese acid rock outfit Ghost and his many collaborations with like minded artists, including Damon & Naomi. This collaborative album was recorded in Tokyo in under a week. Espvall...
prefixmag.com (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
Helena Espvall and Masaki Batoh make for one hell of a psych-folk-art-rock power pairing. You may know Espvall as a ...
Harmony's Weblog (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Continuing my AFI-style accumulation of favorite albums by category, I go to “interpreters”–people who generally perform songs written by others and make them their own. Madeleine Peyroux, Careless Love My current favorite album of reimagined standards, it ranges from Bessie Smith to Elliott Smith, all swingily delivered by Ms. Peyroux in her Billie Holiday-influenced style. Nina Simone, Forbidden...
IndyStar.com (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
Democratic state Rep. Dennie Oxley -- now the party's candidate for lieutenant governor -- is being replaced as the nominee in his House district by his father and namesake.
The Party Blog (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Interesting development flagged by the Independent on Sunday and worthy of note. Not least in the context of what begins to feel like a mass mobilisation of the hitherto silent Blairite camp inside Labour. The once favoured son of the House of Blair, the Foreign Secretary David Miliband has, according to the Independent on Sunday, approached Jonathan Ke...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
A man was acquitted Tuesday of charges that he kidnapped the son of a state lawmaker.
Indian Express (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
Amid speculations about the Samajwadi Party bailing out the Congress on the nuclear deal, SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav...
CBS 3 (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
Lawyers will make their closing arguments the trial of a Philadelphia man accused in the kidnapping of the son of a Pennsylvania state legislator.
Times of India (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
The Left now faces the tough task of disowning the strategy on winning minority votes that senior CPM politburo member M K Pandhe suggested to SP two days ago.
Electric Roulette (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
Everyone is still a bit stir-mental over Led Zeppelin aren't they? I mean, you see a lot more people wearing Zeptees now dontcha? Long gone are the days when VerZep were the sole property of men dressed entirely in denim...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 06/14/2008
Virginia Rounding reviews The Pearl by Douglas Smith
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 06/14/2008
Netherland By Joseph O'Neill Fourth Estate, 256pp, £17.99
The Herald (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
Eric Bibb looks at the way he's portrayed by the media - as the sunny, optimistic and youthful bluesman - and reflects that two out of three isn't bad.
Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
MISSING God is for me rather like Being English: a feeling roused mainly by attack. When my country is abused, a dormant, not to say narcoleptic, patriotism stirs. And when it comes to God, I find myself provoked more by atheistic absolutism than by, say, the often bland tentative hopefulness of the Church of England.
