Underappreciated Album: Turtletoes April 11, 2008 Underappreciated Album: Turtletoes – Jackersville The mysterious and mysteriously overlooked Jackersville , the only recorded offering from the Chicago-area indie jazz-rock outfit Turtletoes, would… Continue Reading
Underappreciated Album: Steven Jesse Bernstein April 11, 2008 Underappreciated Album: Steven Jesse Bernstein – Prison “The poem I write is a colorful affair within the body of a man playing dead –… Continue Reading
Underappreciated Album: Milk Cult April 11, 2008 Underappreciated Album: Milk Cult – Burn or Bury The early 1990s seemed to be a tough time for Boner Records, a somewhat small, Berkeley-based… Continue Reading
Underappreciated Album: Latimer April 11, 2008 Underappreciated Album: Latimer – LP Title With apologies to both greasy cheesesteaks and the cheesiness of the Dead Milkmen, I’ve got to be honest:… Continue Reading
Underappreciated Album: Scratch Acid April 11, 2008 Underappreciated Album: Scratch Acid – The Greatest Gift More people have probably seen Scratch Acid cited as an influence in interviews than have actually… Continue Reading
Underappreciated Album: Basto April 11, 2008 Underappreciated Album: Bastro – Diablo Guapo There is a brief pause – not long enough to even hide a breath – before David Grubbs… Continue Reading
Underappreciated Album: Cheer Accident April 11, 2008 Cheer-Accident, Enduring The American Dream (1997) There are few ensembles that can make noise sound both as mysterious and as strangely inviting as Cheer-Accident…. Continue Reading
Profile: Bonni Evensen from Snowy (2003) March 8, 2008 For those looking for the surface of life to imitate art, I’m sorry to report that Bonni Evensen, the singer-songwriter behind the atmospheric pop… Continue Reading
Profile: Vital Cog’s Steve Stone (2003) March 8, 2008 Let’s cut through the static. Who are the voices worth listening to in indie rock? Well, push aside the soundbyte-spewing iconoclasts and the photogenic… Continue Reading
Profile: The Lesser Birds of Paradise (2004) March 8, 2008 Mark Janka may have a gift for crafting frighteningly fragile acoustic lullabies, but, when it comes to spinning tales about his band’s enigmatic name,… Continue Reading
