Name: Larry Sakin
Weblog: mytown.ca/sakin
Articles: 157
First Published: Saturday, September 3, 2005
Last Published: Monday, August 6, 2007
Currently listing articles 157-101:
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Music Review: The Commonwealth - He Thinks He Scares Us— He Thinks He Scares Us is a tasty concoction.
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Music Review: Blackie and the Rodeo Kings - Let's Frolic— Blackie and the Rodeo Kings wrap their stormy songs with silver linings, as their characters find moments of clarity.
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Book Review: Failure - An Autobiography by Josh Giddings — Giddings writes from deep within the pit of his solar plexus, where he stores the gnawing ache of his insecurities.
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Music Review: Strung Out- Blackhawks Over Los Angeles— Many people will probably argue with me about this, but Blackhawks just doesn’t fly.
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Music Review: Mushroom with Eddie Gale - Joint Happening— Every track on Joint Happening is transcendent.
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Music Review: Sara Gazarek - Return to You— Sara Gazarek ably places herself in a spot between Sarah Vaughan and Dianne Reeves.
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Music Review: Asia - Fantasia: Live In Tokyo— Fantasia: Live In Tokyo is a journey back to when young music fans sat still without the aid of Ritalin.
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Book Review: Framing the Debate - Famous Speeches and How Progressives Can Use Them to Change the Conversation (and Win Elections) by Jeffrey Feldman— Feldman makes clear that framing has been used as far back as Revolutionary War times, and likely longer than that.
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Music Review: Various Artists - We All Love Ella: Celebrating the First Lady of Song— We All Love Ella is a mixed bag filled with mostly earthly, but sometimes sublime delights.
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Book Review: The Real Wealth of Nations - Creating a Caring Economics by Riane Eisler— The Real Wealth of Nations examines traditional economic theories, declaring them ‘dominant’ for their insistence on putting profit before people.
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Music Review: Fake Problems - How Far Our Bodies Go— How Far Our Bodies Go demonstrates the nice guys in Fake Problems are one step closer to reaching icon status.
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Music Review: Mad Caddies - Keep It Going— it’s a pleasure knowing the Mad Caddies slavishly adheres to their beautifully weird musical vision.
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Music Review: Angela Ortiz - All About You— Ortiz blends the direct sensuality of Tori Amos’s edgy rock with a lackadaisical, jazz-induced playfulness.
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Book Review: A Game as Old as Empire - The Secret World of Economic Hit Men and the Web of Global Corruption edited by Steven Hiatt— A Game As Old As Empire is a chilling account of abusive fraud in the cryptic world of international finance.
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DVD Review: Jorge Cervantes' Ultimate Grow DVD— Jorge Cervantes is to marijuana cultivation what Martha Stewart is to home decorating.
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Interview: Mitch Myers, Author of The Boy Who Cried Freebird— "In some ways you might consider The Boy Who Cried Freebird a primer for the uninitiated."
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Music Review: Everybody Else (Self Titled)— If Nirvana pushed out the inside of the musical envelope, Everybody Else keeps that envelope intact for the Disney set.
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Music Review: David Fagin - For Promotional Use Only— Fagin hints at greatness, preferring to follow in the footsteps of the Emo greats rather than blaze his own trail.
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Music Review: Citizen Fish/Leftover Crack - Deadline— Citizen Fish plays blindingly great ska/punk rhythms that leave more commercial so-called ska bands in the dust.
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Music Review: Lovedrug - Everything Starts Where It Ends— Lovedrug's rich layers of swirling guitars and bright melodies moves the emo genre forward.
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Book Review: The Boy Who Cried Freebird by Mitch Myers
— An extraordinary jam session, mixing fiction, biography, anecdotes and fantasy into a rhythmic nirvana.
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Interview: Jill Cunniff, Ex Lead Singer of Luscious Jackson— “I tried learning music in college” states Cunniff. I gained more by finding chord changes on the guitar by accident.”
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Music Review: Love Kills Theory - Happy Suicide Jim— At times, the music happily teeters into uncharted territory, much like a tipsy gazelle prancing in a field of lions.
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Book Review: People Around Us - Edited by Holly Lachowicz and Barbara Seyda— People Around Us is the dark underbelly of Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickeled and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America.
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Music Review: Smoke Or Fire - This Sinking Ship— This Sinking Ship is punk on Ritalin: controlled, well behaved, and nearly comatose.
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Book Review: United States v. George W. Bush et al. by Elizabeth de la Vega— Within the narrow confines of the progressive court of public opinion, U.S. vs. Bush succeeds admirably.
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Music Review: Harry Connick, Jr. - Chanson du Vieux Carré— The album succeeds in weaving a voodoo spell that will have jazz fans grooving zombie-like under its myriad charms.
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Music Review: Jill Cunniff- City Beach
— Cunniff beckons the listener with a colorful sensuality and intense harmonies adding vitality to the entire album.
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Music Review: Only Crime - Virulence— Only Crime’s new record Virulence is replete with sonic highpoints that reach the stratosphere.
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Music Review: Get Set Go - Selling Out and Going Home— Mike TV could stand a little less self-involvement and little more time listening to the work of Nirvana and others.
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Music Review: Tim Barry - Rivana Junction— Tim Barry has captured the spirit of the troubadours of the early twentieth century.
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Book Review: Blood Money - Wasted Billions, Lost Lives, and Corporate Greed in Iraq by T. Christian Miller— Miller offers the rehabilitation of Iraq as a main reason for the Iraq War in the first place.
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Music Review: Gary Lucas, Gods and Monsters - Coming Clean— Listening to Coming Clean gives one the sense of attending a meditative session at a ritualistic sweat lodge.
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Music Review: Josh Weinstein - Brooklyn Is Sinking— Weinstein writes from deep within himself, committing blood, grit, and sensitivity to paper, creating a highly original masterwork.
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Book Review: Imagine No Superstition - The Power to Enjoy Life with No Guilt, No Shame, No Blame by Stephen Frederick Uhl, PhD.— Imagine No Superstition examines the ersatz nature of all religions, rooted as they are in anachronistic customs.
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Music Review: Bad Astronaut - Twelve Small Steps, One Giant Disappointment— To the pantheon of classic art we can now add Bad Astronaut’s Twelve Small Steps, One Giant Disappointment.
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Music Review: Tahiti 80 - Fosbury— The soul influence on Fosbury is derivative and the album an unjust example of this amazing musical style.
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UK Independent Reporter Robert Fisk on War, Journalism and the Middle East— Fisk's observations of American influence over the Middle East are a fascinating, lurid journey into so-called democracy building.
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Music Review: Fake Problems - Spurs and Spokes/Bull>Matador— Any record this good is worth losing your hearing over.
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Music Review: Copeland - Eat, Sleep, Repeat— Copeland stands among the pantheon of emo rockers, including the UK’s Keane and Death Cab for Cutie.
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Music Review: Moneybrother - They’re Building Walls Around Us— Moneybrother creates a danceable solution to the despondent legacy left by Scandinavian metal and alternative.
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Music Review: Communiqué - Walk into the Light— Communiqué has delivered a divine mood piece filled with existential angst and pondering.
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Book Review: Delusional Democracy - Fixing the Republic Without Overthrowing the Government by Joel S. Hirschhorn— Delusional Democracy strays in the belief that a competitive third party in America would bring purity into the political spectrum.
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Music Review: Sandra McCracken - Gravity/Love— Sandra McCracken may be a diamond in the rough, but is certainly luminescent.
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Book Review: One Train Later - A Memoir by Andy Summers— Throughout the book, Summers is candid about the creeping impermanence of a musician’s life.
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Interview: Andy Summers, Former Police Guitarist, Author of One Train Later - A Memoir
— "The one constant in my life has always been music.”
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Music Review: Me First and the Gimme Gimmes - Love Their Country— Love Their Country has its moments, but is still pretty much a one note joke.
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Interview with Hugo Lefebvre from Anthropia— "Precision is very much a part of me" Hugo said. "Everything I do is with precision."
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Music Review: The Falcon - Unicornography— The Falcon's new full length album Unicornography is a masterpiece of cheeky humor.
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Interview: Professor Steven F. Freeman, Co-Author of Was the 2004 Presidential Election Stolen?— In short, the official vote count is off by something on the order of nine million votes!
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Music Review: Charles Mingus Big Band — Live In Tokyo— There isn’t one false note on Live In Tokyo, and like all great albums, the music stays with you.
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Music Review: Charles Mingus At UCLA 1965— Charles Mingus was years ahead of his time, constantly pushing the boundaries of jazz to its furthest extremes.
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Music Review: Ben Swift - Pull— Swift’s songs are like photos in bottom drawers which convey equal doses of life affirming clarity and sardonic amusement.
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Music Review: Anthropia - The Ereyn Chronicles Part 1; The Journey Begins
— If you’re into fantasy and metal, you’ll love this album.
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Music Review: Jason Moran - Artist in Residence— Artist in Residence is a more subdued effort than his other works, but just as satisfying.
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Music Review: Lakes - Photographs— That Photographs possesses such human depth sets it apart from mainstream rock.
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Music Review: Dead FM - Strike Anywhere— Dead FM had me up and slam dancing, howling at the witty invectives screamed out by vocalist Tom Barnett.
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