If you somehow manage to avoid the sophomore slump in music, all eyes immediately shift to see if there’s the junior jinx. Kathleen Edwards avoided that slump by creating a more nuanced […]
Month: March 2008
Malkmus :: Real Emotional Trash
God bless the “event album.” Each year I can (usually) look forward to a few of these by some of my favorite artists. Even now, in the era of instant-everything, […]
Grieving Angel (or, What Happened to alt.Country)
“I saw the writing on the wall, with the Americana movement…I started to see country-western reproduction shirts at the Gap, and once something gets that big, it’s over.” – Darin […]
Noise Pop ’08 :: Magnetic Fields (Herbst Theartre)
Tonight: We hit up the second night of The Magnetic Fields SF stint, at the Herbst Theatre , as we will not be back in L.A. next week for Field’s Henry Fonda shows. As expected Stephen Merritt […]