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The Adventures of Stickboy
1. "I'm Pretty Sure I'm Gay"
2. "Please, Please, Please"
3. "I'm Pretty Sure I Can't Go On Vacation with My Parents Anymore"
4. "Kiss Me on the LRV"
5. "It Just Came to Pieces in My Hands"
6. "I'm Pretty Sure I Want to be a Famous Comic Book Artist"
7. "Brushes with Greatness"
8. "Exterminate the Brutes!"
9. "Kill Cat Stevens"
10. "Strip Club Strip"
11. "O' Come Again, Terrible Summer"
12. "En El Fondo: Pages from an (Anti) Depression"
13. "The $100K Bowl of Shit"
Shawn Brown
The Trews: Canadian Riff Rock With Indie Sprit and a Pimps' Heart
Quit Sellin' Amos Lee Short
Carousel Roundup
February 2011: Have a Heart (It's So Tasty)
November 2010: I See Dead Things
October 2010: I'm Running Away to Join the Circus
September 2010: Almost Strictly Instrumental
August 2010: The Booze Tour
July 2010: Sisters of Mercy
June 2010: Groovy Singer-Songwriters
Composition Breakdown
Brian Vander Ark
Thomas Cooney:
"Another Thing!" (March 2012)
"Another Thing!" (January 2012)
"Another Thing!" (October 2011)
"Another Thing!" (August 2011)
"Another Thing!" (June 2011)
"Another Thing!" (April 2011)
"Another Thing!" (February 2011)
"Another Thing!" (January 2011)
"Another Thing!" (November 2010)
"Another Thing!" (October 2010)
"Another Thing!" (September 2010)
"10 Years of Swing Out Sister's Somewhere Deep In The Night"
"The Twenty-Five Year Seduction: Bryan Ferry’s Boys and Girls"
"Decade in Review"
"The Deep Night Of Day"
The Cyprus Chronicles:
"Life Itself"
A Desert Island Scenario
Risa Nye - Stardust
Katrina Geco:
"Daydreamer's Holiday - The Clarks and the Sounds of Pittsburgh"
Kevin Griffin:
"The Bass Man"
Kelly Haigh:
"Stage Fright at the Railway Club"
New Crush/Old Crush
Vampire Weekend
War Elephant
Theresa Moorehouse
Kaya Oakes' Miscellany:
"Dylan: He's Just Like Us"
Recess
March 2012
The Roberge Report:
"Just for Openers"
"Jay Walter Bennett"
"Closet Classics"
"Urinal Tour Diary; A Week on the Road with the most Punctual and Polite Band in Punk"
"Room #8, Joshua Tree Inn"
Studio Musician Gossip:
"We Need A Public Option Radio Station"
"Make Out/Make Over"
"Re-Make, Re-Model"
Wildflowers
Philip Stevenson on Arthur Doyle
Book Reviews
Amphetamine Heart by Liz Worth
Got No Secrets by Danila Botha
All You Get Is Me, by Yvonne Prinz
Getting in Tune, by Roger Trott
Hew, Screw + Glue: How Stuff is Made, by James Innes-Smith
Me, the Mob, and the Music: One Helluva Ride With Tommy James And The Shondells , by Tommy James
Mingering Mike, by Dori Hadar
New York Dolls, by Bob Gruen
Red Album of Asbury Park, by Alex Austin
Satchmo: The Wonderful World And Art Of Louis Armstrong, by Steven Brower
Stalker Girl, by Rosemary Graham
Stone Roses, by Alex Green
Three Wishes: An Intimate Look At Jazz Greats, by Pannonica de Koenigswarter
The Vinyl Princess by Yvonne Prinz
DVD Reviews
Pet Shop Boys - Pandemonium
Rush - Snakes and Arrows Live
Live Reviews
2011
2011 - The Kills
2011 - Lost Lander
2011 - Bryan Ferry
2011 - Joana and the Wolf
2011 - Jasmine Minks
2011 - Gardens & Villa
2011 - Mike Watt & the Minutemen
2011 - The Royal Bangs
2011 - Dropkick Murphys
2011 - The Decemberists
2010
2010 - English Beat
2010 - Toadies
2010 - Sick Puppies
2010 - Jennie DeVoe
2009
2009 - Forever Young Dylan Tribute
The Meat Puppets
Bob Mould with Juliana Hatfield
Pet Shop Boys
Pixies
Bonnie Whitmore
2008
2008 - The Kooks
The Subways
2007
Big Star
Coachella
English Beat
Sondre Lerche
Placebo
Sonic Youth
Best Of:
Best of 2010
Best of 2009
Best of 2008
Joana And The Wolf
August 2011
London
I think I'm getting the hang of the London gig scene now. By signing up to the Tuesday night event on Facebook I managed to get a two-pound discount on the five-pound ticket price. That's a bargain my mother, the queen of bargain hunting, would be proud of! And in this case the old adage that you get what you pay for was not true at all. For three pounds I got to see what I would rate as one of the best concerts I've ever seen.
I'm a sucker for good stage performers, and in person Joana Glaz, the Lithuanian lead singer/songwriter of Joana and the Wolf breathes real life into her music. As well as having an operatic range, and that slightly nutty but lovable Eastern European demeanor, she is also obviously a dancer. She performed the set in red ballet shoes and writhed around the stage doing back bends, that even after my ten years of yoga made my jaw drop.
But it isn't all about the stage act, is it? It could be the most amazing stage show ever, but you're still going to leave feeling slightly greasy if the singer is pumping out some generic pop like Britney Spears.
I'd taken a bit of a chance on the event. On Spotify there is only an EP available and while I loved the single it by no means guaranteed I would love the album. After starting with a couple of slightly slower songs, I was surprised to hear the band roll out their new single three songs into the set, but to my delight the gig really kicked off from that point. Joana And The Wolf's sound is so familiar yet so hard to categorize. At points, like on the very punk "Entertainer" which starts with a monologue delivered at the edge of the stage, Glaz reminds me of Patti Smith: "There's a story about the girl/About the girl who happened to meet Mr. God/She held god by the edge of his coat/Pulling him strongly towards herself/If you will move away, she said, I'm not afraid to kill you.
Numbers like the latest single, "Hide Me," and "When I Run" were quite dancy, while the hauntingly beautiful "Isobella" which was dedicated to "all the naughty girls" found Glaz urging, "lift your skirts up girls, and boys close your eyes." To the delight of the crowd, Glaz followed her own instructions.
Glaz has the perfect mix of Patti Smith's storytelling, and Björk's vocal gymnastics, but with songs that are much easier to listen and dance to. After an amazing set, she came back to sing us a lullaby for the encore. The arrangement was so brilliant I didn't even realize what I was listening to, until it dawned on me that it was a cover of Britney Spears' "Oops, I Did It Again." I don't care if it was Britney, it was one of the best covers I've ever heard! In the words of my companion for the night, "I would see them again in a heartbeat."
—Jeantine Mankelow
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