bristol rhythm & roots: hoots and hellmouth, originally uploaded by minervacat. Hoots & Hellmouth — The Holy Open Secret. Not a brand new release, but a 2009 album that I can’t stop thinking about and listening to. I often struggle to describe the sound of an album I’m talking about, because “hipsters with banjos” doesn’t…
Category: opinions about albums
mason jennings — blood of man
mason jennings @ the cradle, originally uploaded by minervacat. Mason Jennings — Blood of Man. Out in hard copy next Tuesday, 9/15, on Brushfire Records. This is the least helpful album review you’ll read all year: it’s Mason. I think this album is unreservedly amazing, because I am incapable of being rational or objective or thoughtful about the…
oversold, more like
oversold, more like, originally uploaded by minervacat. From last August’s Glossary/Lucero show at the 506. It seems appropriate to review these two together — the major label debuts of bands that started small, toured relentlessly, stuck to their sound and their goals, and built enormous, rabid, vocal, fiercely devoted fan bases who’d walk through fire…
all these flashes and cables
all these flashes and cables, originally uploaded by minervacat. I have been lucky enough to happen into an almost legal advance copy of the upcoming A.A. Bondy record, When The Devil’s Loose, and having finally listened to it last week, two weeks after it came into my possession, I can say: this album is officially…
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