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A review of Bad Penny Opera by The Cherry Bluestorms
Los Angeles based band The Cherry Bluestorms combine 60s styled guitar hooks, tight vocal harmonies, and modern ingenuity…
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. One of the best things about being a music blogger is that sometimes people send me free music to review. I have found a lot of great music from talented artists I might not have ever run across otherwise. Such is the case today, as I […]
#13 album of 2013 – Weeeeeeeeee!!! by Polysics
Artist: Polysics
Album: Weeeeeeeeee!!!
Weeeeeeeeee!, by Polysics— that’s ten “e”s — is almost the most perfectly-titled album in my collection. It’s not *quite*, of course — there should be an “h” after that “W” — but Polysics are Japanese, and their command of English is ahead of my command of their language (which consists of “Domo arigato, Mister Roboto”). The title Weeeeeeeeee! sounds like it should be the most enthusiastic record in the whole world. And it […]
#14 album of 2013 – Love by Cloud Cult
Artist: Cloud Cult
Album: Love
By late 2009, for reasons I’m about to explain, it became impossible for me to ever be objective about the Minnesota alt-rock-plus-strings band Cloud Cult. So I’m happy that I still have on file my old ballots in Tris McCall’s Critics’ Polls for the years 2007 and 2008, where *at the time* I voted their the Meaning of 8 and Feel Good Ghosts the 4th- and 3rd-best, respectively, albums of their year. […]