DAMNED BY FAINT PRAISE (Another in a series)
Two pro record reviews. The first, by Deadsy, was better than the average feeble mean I'm sent in promotional copies, surprising since the band's first album, which I also reviewed a couple years ago, was obstinately horrible.
Although named Phillips Exeter Blue I in his band Deadsy, Elijah Blue Allman, Cher's son by Gregg Allman, will always be the little kid playing guitar on the bow of the battleship Missouri in mom's prancing video for "If I Could Turn Back Time." Allman since has grown up to mix death-metal riffs with goth glam on Phantasmagore. Previously, Deadsy did tuneless death grunge, injecting variety with a cover of Rush's "Tom Sawyer" and an unusual appreciation for the look and feel of German army staff uniforms. What you have now is proof of determined progress. Read the rest at the Baltimore City Paper here.
Who buys Christmas albums for the holidays? Certainly not me. The next one came for free, too, and is something to listen to as you're phoning in a fruitcake order for mailing to a family associate, "friend" -- in this case, being too endorsing as a usage.
What’s surprising about husband-wife country vets Kelly Willis and Bruce Robison singing a Christmas song -- "Please Daddy Don't Get Drunk" -- about getting smashed and falling over while Mommy cries and the kid is sent to the bedroom is how convincingly warm and cozy it sounds.
Read the rest as PaperThinWalls.COM
Two pro record reviews. The first, by Deadsy, was better than the average feeble mean I'm sent in promotional copies, surprising since the band's first album, which I also reviewed a couple years ago, was obstinately horrible.
Although named Phillips Exeter Blue I in his band Deadsy, Elijah Blue Allman, Cher's son by Gregg Allman, will always be the little kid playing guitar on the bow of the battleship Missouri in mom's prancing video for "If I Could Turn Back Time." Allman since has grown up to mix death-metal riffs with goth glam on Phantasmagore. Previously, Deadsy did tuneless death grunge, injecting variety with a cover of Rush's "Tom Sawyer" and an unusual appreciation for the look and feel of German army staff uniforms. What you have now is proof of determined progress. Read the rest at the Baltimore City Paper here.
Who buys Christmas albums for the holidays? Certainly not me. The next one came for free, too, and is something to listen to as you're phoning in a fruitcake order for mailing to a family associate, "friend" -- in this case, being too endorsing as a usage.
What’s surprising about husband-wife country vets Kelly Willis and Bruce Robison singing a Christmas song -- "Please Daddy Don't Get Drunk" -- about getting smashed and falling over while Mommy cries and the kid is sent to the bedroom is how convincingly warm and cozy it sounds.
Read the rest as PaperThinWalls.COM
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