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 Caught in the Carousel - Music Reviews and More
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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"
4. "It Just Came to Pieces in My Hands"
5. "I'm Pretty Sure I Want to be a Famous Comic Book Artist"
Carousel Roundup
August 2010: The Booze Tour
July 2010: Sisters of Mercy
June 2010: Groovy Singer-Songwriters
Thomas Cooney:
"Decade in Review"
"The Deep Night Of Day"
The Cyprus Chronicles:
"Life Itself"
Kevin Griffin:
"The Bass Man"
New Crush/Old Crush
Vampire Weekend
War Elephant
Theresa Moorehouse
Kaya Oakes' Miscellany:
"Dylan: He's Just Like Us"
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"
Book Reviews
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
2010
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:
Caught in the Carousel's Year's Best for 2008
Thomas Cooney
CITC Staff Writer
Album of the Year: Swing Out Sister's Beautiful Mess.
The underappreciated duo's first studio album in four years was a magnificent testament to the ability of melody to lift pop music to shimmering elegance. Comparatively speaking, it lacked the dark Cuban subtext of their masterpiece Filth and Dreams, but it was the best thing to hit my stereo in a long, long time.
Least Good Album of the Year: Seal's Soul.
And this wasn't even the album in which he dueted with Heidi Klum! It was worse than a phoned-in performance. It was worse than a cashed-in money maker. It was like showing up to a convention of classic automobiles behind the wheel of a Yugo.
Song of the Year: Anything that had nothing to do with Lil Wayne. But seriously...it wasn't released as a single, but Raphael Saadiq's "The Big Easy" was the most celebratory three minutes of music in 2008.
Film of the Year: The Visitor. In two hours we were given a poetic treatise on what America used to be, what it is now, and what it will soon become again. Fantastic.
Overall Artistic Disappointment of the Year: Salman Rushdie's unreadable The Enchantress of Florence. So smug a novel as to have a bibliography. One fears that celebrity has killed this genius. At least we'll always have The Satanic Verses, one of the five most necessary books of all time.
What I Look Forward To In 2009:
1. The new Roxy Music album (with Eno!)
2. The new San Ilya album (early samples are earthy and big)
3. The new Lynn Freed novel The Servant's Quarters
4. Rafa's fifth straight French Open title
5. The Dodgers winning the World Series
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