Shlockypop

by | Jan 4, 2008 | Uncategorized

Even though the Dan San Band has aptly titled its album Cockypop, and has clearly spent some amount of hours figuring out Green Day and Blink 182 songs, the effort as a whole is about as inspiring as a plain bagel, or any food item billed as "original...

Wild Way, by John Cate & The Van Gogh Brothers

by | Jan 14, 2008 | Uncategorized

When this one starts up, acoustic strumming is undercut in a subtle fashion with some nice backwards guitar (or is it pedal steel? Hard to say). The texture then thickens with a little bit of tasty Telecaster. From then on, things get pretty darned normal, settling...

The Challenge…

by | Jan 16, 2008 | Uncategorized

Okay, we’ve had a lot going on over here, juggling holidays, people’s vacation time and an upcoming office move to Northampton that’s probably going to be more painful than we think. BUT…don’t think we’ve forgotten about your puny...

The Humming Field

by | Feb 1, 2008 | Uncategorized

Some disjointed notes while listening:This one starts not with humming but with aah-ing. Heh.What we’ve got here is what I would call, (and not in a disparaging fashion), pleasant pop. Most of the album is propelled by medium-tempo acoustic strumming, backed up...

Curious Buddies

by | Feb 21, 2008 | Uncategorized

For all of you impatient little twits out there, please be aware that we just moved our offices to Northampton last weekend and are still ironing out some technological kinks. That being said, it is notable that we have already given quite a bit of coverage already to...