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Monthly Archives: July 2006

The Return of Os Mutantes

  Os Mutantes Webster Hall New York, NY: July 21, 2006  I went to the Os Mutantes show as something of an outsider. I had been given a ticket basically as a bribe so that my apartment could be used for sleep, eating, and, perhaps, sex (alas, not with me). I knew they were from Brazil, [...]
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Jolie Holland: The Dirty Queen of San Francisco

  Recently I had the pleasure of seeing Jolie Holland live in her native San Francisco, along with a band made up of her favorite local backing musicians. The show took place in the posh Bimbo’s 365 Club with its elegant seating and two drink minimum. However, it was clear from the very start of the [...]
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Jens Lekman Kills the Party Again. God damn.

Jens Lekman The Southgate House Newport, KY: July 25, 2006 As usual, I was in a hurry for no good reason.  One would think that when melancholy Swedish pop sensation Jens Lekman is planning a performance in a medium-sized Midwestern city that the venue would be packed to the gills with sensible, well-dressed pop enthusiasts and Jonathan Richman acolytes, [...]
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The Replacements – Don’t Tell A Soul

  When the Replacements released Don’t Tell a Soul in 1989, their core base of fans received the record like a swift sucker punch to the abdomen. While devotees were expecting another set of drunkenly perceptive riffs and verses, instead they  received a cohesive series of earnest rockers and pared-down AOR anthems that seemed to beg more comparisons to jean [...]
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News Post – July 20, 2006

Cost of 500 analog reel-to-reel tapes, circa 1969: £7,500. Attempted retail price of said tapes in 21st Century Dutch black market: £250,000.  Discovering that the tapes composed the long lost original studio recordings of the Beatles’ Get Back Sessions: Priceless, according to authorities who recovered the tapes in a series of raids in West London and [...]
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The Minders – It’s a Bright Guilty World

  On their fourth album, Martyn Leaper and company return with a sound that, thankfully, can be identified as a distant cousin of earlier Minders’ records.  Call it maturing, re-inventing, or gracefully aging, but The Minders are definitely not the same band that their fans have come to love. It’s a Bright Guilty World shows [...]
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“Leonard Cohen–I’m Your Man” The Movie

As the final image of a seventy-year old austere Leonard Cohen fades to black and the credits commence, the viewer is confronted with a credit that reveals Mel Gibson to be the executive producer of this film. No wonder there were a few unwarranted shadow images of Jesus on the cross, too many discussions of [...]
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