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With a Little Help from His Friends, Ringo Rocks Humphreys

Damn! Still haven't ever seen a Beatle "live" (& there are only two left). Good write-up. Maybe I should befriend someone with a boat...
— August 9, 2012 11:08 p.m.

Everyone's a Critic Top Ten List

Better late than never - my 2011 Top 10 - by Mary Leary Kathryn Calder: Bright and Vivid (File Under Music) - Also involved with New Pornographers, and supported by players including Superchunk’s Jon Wurster, Calder’s addictive sophomore solo effort soars beyond both the inevitable “Indie pop” tag and her own “synth-pop” description. The Do: Both Ways Open Jaws (Six Degrees Records) – On harpsichord, sax, piano, and trumpet (for starters), Dan Levy helps Olivia Merilahti realize her hypersensitive perceptions. BWOJ sparkles and holds with hooks and ingenuity recalling the Raincoats and early Bowie. Fleet Foxes: Helplessness Blues (Sub Pop) – To sound so much like CS&N (without Y) and still end up on this list? You’d have to be amazing. Fleet Foxes occasionally attains/conveys alpha levels of consciousness while feeling sincere to avoid any sense of pretense. Sam Humans: Live Free/The Heligoats: Let Loose (Greyday Records) –The Heligoats’ Chris Otepka’s songwriting so juicily merges Walt Whitman’s transcendentalism (life is full of possibilities) with CCR’s kick-up-your-heels joy, it’s almost unbearable – in the best way. Mercies: Three Thousand Days (Self-Released) – A passionate tone-poem of a (10-track) debut; recorded in a Connecticut barn. The Raincoats: Odyshape (Reissue - We Three Records): An invigoratingly idiosyncratic mash of yin with yang that broke all sorts of ground. Three British girls happened to be manning the shovels. Robbers on High Street: Hey There Golden Hair (Rocco Grecco) – It’s not easy to recapture the verve and kick of the mid-‘60s, while infusing it with joyful naivete. For the leap forward that is HTGH, the Brooklyn, New York-based Robbers have composed hits for A.M. stations that no longer exist. Trentemoller: Reworked/Remixed (In My Room) – With artists including Andrew Weatherall Prinz and Efterklang remolding Trentemoller’s tracks, and Trentemoller putting his hands all over music by Franz Ferdinand, The Do, and Lars and the Hands of Light, it seems (from the way this thing’s been glued to my ears) impossible to go wrong with this cool, trippy, and cherry-on-top (of the Pop) tones ‘n’ beats. The Velvet Monkeys: Everything Is Right (Reissue – Instant Mayhem/Thick Syrup) - Don Fleming has played a significant role in seminal new wave, punk, and post-punk (Sonic Youth, Teenage Fanclub, Dinosaur Jr). Anyone interested in any of those might want to overlook his participation in the Backbeat Band and grab this reissue of his first band’s debut, which for 29 years could only be found on cassette. Gary Wilson: Feel the Beat (Tip Records) – Based in San Diego, GW continues to weave ingratiatingly odd tales of unrequited passion that seem to emanate from the psyche of an underdeveloped 16-year-old -- to music brilliantly melding lounge, jazz, funk, and pop. (I also thought Cass McCombs' album was good; it just didn't quite make it onto this list)
— December 29, 2011 1:24 p.m.

Cult Hero Gary Wilson @ Soda Bar Nov. 6 w/New Album

If Jay Allen's ultra-inclusive article isn't enough for you, here's my feature, circa last January, with some great videos: http://blurt-online.com/features/view/789/
— November 5, 2011 12:28 a.m.

Overdue at the Library

So glad to hear this is happening. Lou, and his work, have been one of the reasons I'm glad to be here. His involvement in the Roots Festival he started is still mourned by me (now that that's changed). I taped a lot of his shows in the '90s; happy Sunday evenings cooking and listening. Lou is a gem!
— October 12, 2011 10:46 p.m.

Call It Macaroni

The woman in the pic with Aaron above isn't his wife Kate.
— August 6, 2011 12:55 p.m.

Sound Suit, Activate!

Good for you, Randy. I saw AGT for the first time last night - even compared w/ shows like AI it was an excruciating experience. It didn't really even seem to be about talent - not that I could discern, anyway. They missed the boat, not bringing you on: think of all the people who could have been awakened from their La-Z Boys in time to watch the commercials?
— July 21, 2011 12:48 a.m.

It's a Nicey Nice World

Tx, Jay Allen, for clarifying. I was on another coast during the original punk scene - re: this coast, I know a fair amount about what happened in L.A., but no, not an expert on what happened on the local scene. So the couple of accounts I've heard about the Penetrators -well, I'm gonna find those people 'n' beat 'em up! Anyway, I'm here now for Nicey Nice World, & it's a happee happee thing.
— May 24, 2011 9:05 p.m.

It's a Nicey Nice World

I get 400 words here; so thanks for the additions. I mentioned the Dinettes in my recent Harpo piece. For a live review of Marcelo: http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2010/jan/05/ra… - if the link doesn't work, you can read it in Concert Reviews, January 5, 2010
— April 20, 2011 7 p.m.

Intoxicating Suds and Gastroenteritis

Charlie, Jack, and Chris aren't on the new album - that sentence (at the end of the first paragraph) somehow got merged with the one before, so that it looks as if they are. Charlie, Jack and Chris played on the recent U.K. tour.
— April 13, 2011 7:31 p.m.

Sonny & the Sunsets Sandwitches with Earth Girl Helen Brown

Caught the band's last spin through town; great show.
— March 31, 2011 9:17 p.m.

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