Behind the Beat: Damaged Goods

Behind the Beat: Damaged Goods

by | May 20, 2010 | Music

“My dream bill would require a time machine and several venues,” says longtime Valley rocker Mike Dumont, aka Dr. Liv Damage, when asked who he’d most like to share a stage with. “Iggy and the Stooges with James Williamson live in Detroit,...
CD Shorts

CD Shorts

by | May 20, 2010 | Music

Joanna NewsomHave One On Me(Drag City) Joanna Newsom’s ambitious new three-disc opus is so lyrically dense, intricately textured, and dizzyingly varied that any current review is bound to be somewhat premature. Have One On Me finds a middle ground between the...
Sweet Apple Solution

Sweet Apple Solution

by | May 20, 2010 | Music

“It is a tradition old as man that out of pain comes a bitter wisdom and the gentleness of right living.” —From The Madness of Man, by Alice Brown John Petkovic was in a bad way. After losing his mother to a horrific battle with cancer, he was...

Art in Paradise: Welcome the Ruckus

by | May 20, 2010 | Music

I’ve heard some very fine oxymorons: honest politician, paid volunteer, El Camino Classic. But few can equal “Vermont hip-hop.” Perhaps it’s simply that maple-drenched rural life punctuated by blizzards doesn’t really tend to appear often...
CD Shorts

CD Shorts

by | May 20, 2010 | Music

Brian Eno with John Hopkins & Leo AbrahamsSmall Craft on a Milk Sea(Warp) Brian Eno’s last few solo efforts have been met with indifference, but the ambient godfather’s first release for Warp has tongues wagging. The hook is that Eno has come full...