Name: John Owen
Dateline: The People's Republic of Greater Outer Boston
Weblog: perfidy.org
Articles: 124
First Published: Monday, September 22, 2003
Last Published: Friday, May 11, 2007
Currently listing articles 124-101:
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Music Review: Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha— The Chicago violinist returns with a stupendous, iconic, gorgeous album that is among of the very best of the year.
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Music Review: Robert "Junior" Lockwood - Steady Rollin' Man— Delmark Records reissues the debut session from one of the Chicago blues' finest players.
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Music Review: Scuba— A warm and fuzzy (and superb!) debut from a New England band who, you should know, are not shoegazer revivalists.
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Music Review: Eldridge Rodriguez - The Conspiracy Against Us— An impressive and scarily accomplished debut album from a member of the Boston quintet The Beatings.
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Music Review: Junior Wells - Live at Theresa's 1975.— One of the greats of Chicago blues doing what he did best night after night, at the club he called home.
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Music Review: The Slits - Revenge Of The Killer Slits EP— Britain's first ladies of dubby, scratchy punk are all grown up, back together, and trying to recapture the old magic.
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Music Review: Jane's Addiction - Up From The Catacombs— Jane's Addiction finally get the best-of they deserve in this fine seventeen-song collection from Rhino.
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Music Review: Solomon Burke - Nashville— The blues-country-soul-gospel-whatever legend returns with a stupendous set of country songs that would be the crowning achievement of practically any career.
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An Interview With Soul-Blues-Gospel Singer Solomon Burke
— The legendary singer gets frank about his recent resurgence, the joy of singing, and the tiresome uselessness of genre labels.
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Music Review: The Kooks - Inside In/Inside Out— The much-hyped and very tousled British group finally hits American shores with an album that's pretty, catchy, clever, and, ultimately, kinda boring.
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Music Review: Steve Bernstein's Millennial Territory Orchestra - Volume 1— The slide-trumpet player and leader of Sex Mob finally makes an album that doesn't kind of suck.
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Music Review: Pere Ubu's Why I Hate Women and a Review of Music Reviews— In which I onanistically ask of myself, what was I thinking?!
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Music Review: Pere Ubu - Why I Hate Women
— The new wave pioneers' 15th album is a bad, bad trip, a violent and bewildering mess drenched in guitar and theremin. It's also outstanding.
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CD Review: Thor - Devastation of Musculation— As long as you take it for what it is - the aural equivalent of movies like Escape from New York - you can do
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CD Review: Bobby Previte's Coalition of the Willing— A lurid surf-spy garage rock Miles Davis Live/Evil Mission Impossible electric pyschedelic pussycat puzzle from one of New York's finest (not) jazz drummers.
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CD Review: The Essential George Jones— Sony Legacy's "Essential" series offers a strong but flawed introduction to the greatest living country singer, the man they call The Possum.
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CD Review: The Wood Brothers - Ways Not to Lose— Bassist Chris Wood (Medeski Martin & Wood) makes it a family affair on this country-flavored offering featuring brother Oliver Wood.
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CD Review: Dr. John - Right Place, Right Time: Live at Tipitina's 1989— The Night Tripper... New Orleans... Tipitina's... Mardi Gras... what a combination!! So why isn't it a better record?
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CD Review: Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings And Food— Rhino reissues the Heads' second album in a regrettable but fun DualDisc format and 5.1 mix that affirms just how good they really were.
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CD Review: Cheap Trick - Dream Police— Decently remastered with a few bonus tracks, but the main attraction is the songwriting and hijinks on Cheap Trick's last really good studio album.
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African Music Legend Ali Farka Touré Has Died— I have been fumbling with a proper obituary for the man for an hour now.
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CD Review: Pansy Division - The Essential Pansy Division— A solid and entertaining retrospective from the pioneers of queercore, with sharp lyrics, catchy hooks, and approximately 15 million dick jokes.
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CD Review: Tres Chicas - Bloom, Red & The Ordinary Girl— A comfortable, laid-back, and completely unpretentious alternative country album by three friends and long-time veterans of the North Carolina indie music scene.
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CD Review: Various Artists - Heartworn Highways— The earliest recordings of Steve Earle, Guy Clark, Rodney Crowell, John Hiatt, and others feature in this newly collected 1975-76 soundtrack to the alt-country revolution.
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