Articles
I, Wombat / I, Wombat
Want a break from the avalanche of niche-marketed, multimedia “artists” that seem to have emerged whole cloth from some focus-group factory? Do you miss rock music, the kind of rock […]
homeless j / The Squeeze
Homeless J, for better or worse, can probably impart that advice more wisely than just about anybody in the region: stuck on the short end of two promising major label […]
Lee Miles / 1000 Lions
For every songwriter willing to churn their guitar with some chutzpah there are at least 1,000 others with no idea what it means to have guts. On his first three […]
The Lurking Corpses
While driving to meet the members of The Lurking Corpses for an interview I began to consider asking whatzup for additional compensation. I don’t remember “3 a.m. graveyard interviews with […]
Bob Phillips and Jim Steele / Making Waves
Making Waves: A Demonstration of Kymotropic Inventions sat far too long in my stack of albums to review, mostly because I didn’t know how to tackle it. It is startlingly […]
The Orange Opera
The French philosopher JacquesMaritain once said, “The only artist who does not deserve respect is theone who works to please the public.” Four left turns later Bob Dylanclaimed that “Money […]
Coda
Twenty years of history is rare for any rock band. You see it occasionally among some of the top bands in the world – the Rolling Stones, Aerosmith, The Who […]
Dan Nightingale / Wait On the Bridge
Given the state of affairs in the world circa 2007, it’s a real tightrope walk for Christian artists to navigate the line between hope, faith and the black and white […]