Without any evidence of conflict between the former members of Sleater-Kinney, here at SLP we’re all about possibilities. After Carrie Brownstein got our hopes up last year with the announcement that Sleater-Kinney might get back together “in the next five years,” we were taken aback when they launched their separate ventures shortly afterward. Corin Tucker [...]
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156 Words for Great
Kate Bush’s latest, 50 Words for Snow, has this reviewer pleased Count me (along with Big Boi, St. Vincent, et al) as an ardent Kate Bush fan. So it is with rose-colored glasses that I recommend her newest, 50 Words for Snow, so enthusiastically. I realize my bias as I listen to songs like “Snowflake” [...]
Read entire post...Wilco’s Parts Don’t Add Up to Whole
The Whole Love from Wilco starts promising and ends OK. The first song on Wilco’s latest is called Art of Almost and it begins with noisy grinding electronic noise that sounds more like Radiohead than Chicago’s favorite “Americana” band. At just over seven minutes the song sets the stage for more musical exploration, but then I [...]
Read entire post...Harvey Hears a Sue
Parish helps UK band Peggy Sue create moody gem Acrobats, the second album from unapologetic PJ Harvey devotees Peggy Sue, has the trio abandoning their folkier past…plugging in, grabbing producer John Parish, and doing their best impression of their muse’s early recordings. And while there are plenty of sonic parallels, the record’s poppier qualities give [...]
Read entire post...Love (Rain) O’er Me…
It’s that time of year in the Pac Northwest to succumb to nature’s tears… However, there’s no denying rains importance – and many a musical artist has acknowledged this, some better than others. I’ve started a list (by no means comprehensive) of songs where rain is a prominent feature. Some of these have rain in the [...]
Read entire post...Parallax Analysis
Atlas Sound’s prolific Cox adds hooks to spacy beauty With apologies to the memory of James Brown, Bradford Cox might be the hardest working man in showbiz (well, at least the indie music scene). Between his band Deerhunter, other side projects, and Atlas Sound, there’s never a shortage of his material to access. But the [...]
Read entire post...East Coast Bands Get West Coast Love
Real Estate & Clap Your Hands experience Portland’s enthusiastic crowds Real Estate (Brooklyn via New Jersey) and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! (Brooklyn via outer space) recently graced the stages of performance spaces on the West Coast. Judging by their responses – especially here in Portland – they got back what they gave. Smells Like [...]
Read entire post...Garden State Surfers
Real Estate’s new album continues to channel waves via NYC Days, the newest album by Brooklyn (via New Jersey) band Real Estate, sounds like an album by a band envisioning the experience of the surf from Tony Soprano’s hunting ground; it’s got the haze, the dreaminess – but still has the angsty feel of someone [...]
Read entire post...St. Vincent Delivers Strange Masterpiece
Strange Mercy, the latest effort from St. Vincent (ne, Annie Clark) is the payoff for years of hinting at a record like this. Her vocals – precious in the past -now reveal an artist who has literally and figuratively found her voice. The musicianship (her guitar work on “Cheerleader”) and compositions – once complex bordering [...]
Read entire post...Interview with Anika
Interview by Alexander Laurence / Photo by Angel Ceballos Anika aka Annika Henderson used to be a political journalist and travel back and forth between Bristol and Berlin. She also went to college in Wales at some point and organized shows there and was a DJ too. As she was booking and promoting bands for [...]
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