A fine bass player and pianist, Anthony, who is model-thin, has a powerful, rich voice reminiscent of Mama Cass or Ellen McIlwaine. But her sensibility, in spite of the CD's relatively lush arrangements, has more in common with the starkness of Lucinda Williams or Liz Phair.
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Eric’s Quick Picks – A Farewell to Phish – Trey’s Solo Seis de Mayo
Phish are going out in style. August 14 and 15, 80,000 fans are expected to descend upon Coventry, Vermont for Phish’s farewell festival. Fewer than 70,000 tickets were sold and no one will be admitted without a ticket, so in order to better accomodate the superflous 10,000 (I like that: …
Read More »Eric’s Quick Picks – Zero 7 – When It Falls
Zero 7, North Londoners Sam Hardaker and Henry Binns and a brace of guest vocalists (Mozez, Sia Furler, Sophie Barker, Tina Dico) and musicians, sounds exactly like the picture above looks: neo-psychedelic pastel hues surging with subversive stealth up the nervous system into the heart of the head. Though firmly …
Read More »Eric’s Quick Picks – Van Morrison – What’s Wrong With This Picture?
Not much. Van the Man keeps doing his medium-intensity thing, now for the legendary Blue Note label, and Van IS essentially a pop-jazz and jump-blues singer these days anyway. With strings, reeds and horns providing a sweet but not saccharine, gently swinging bed, Van riffs off of standard blues progressions …
Read More »2004 Americana Music Association Conference
I am very pleased to see Americana finding an identity of its own apart from the Nashville hat scene, although the conference is in … Nashville, of course. The 5th annual event will be held from September 23-25 at the Nashville Convention Center, with evening showcases to be held at …
Read More »Cordero in Brooklyn Tonight
I really love the Brooklyn alt rock/Latino hybrid band Cordero, led by singer Ani Cordero. I reviewed their live show and first record here. If anything, the band’s secod album – Somos Cordero, which delves more deeply still into Latin rhythms and Spanish language songs – is even better than …
Read More »Reunited Duranies Finish New Album
Though it is the music that will be the final arbiter, this has all the earmarks of a happy ending: Founding lineup’s first new studio album in 19 years due out in October 2004 on Epic Records. Band works with hit making R&B and alternative rock producers New York, NY– …
Read More »Bisbee Buzz
It all began with a heads-up from our pal Scott Matthews of Andromeda, who alerted me to the chewy goodness of director Tobias Perse’s extraordinary stop-motion animation video of NYC indie-rocker Sam Bisbee’s classic song “You Are Here,” utilizing polaroids and half a stick of gum, available for consumption and …
Read More »Robert Quine Dead at 61
Robert Quine, one of the great guitarists of alt-rock history – an underrated #80 on the Rolling Stone guitarist poll – died at 61 of an apparent heroin overdose in his NYC apartment. Quine had been despondent since the recent death of his wife. Billboard.com has more: Born in Akron, …
Read More »Maroon 5: Slow and Steady Path to Success
The long, slow rise of Maroon 5 shows that the music industry still knows how to break a band if it wants to (it just doens’t seem to want to very often anymore, or more accurately, it doesn’t seem to have the patience to very often anymore). We have three …
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