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Monday, April 29, 2013

"Gealltanas go deo"

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Scríobh mé an h-ám go riomh faoi ealáintóir seo. Is maith liom "Sléibhte Naomh Jacinto" le Emil Kosa, Jr. Mar sin, d'fhéach...
Saturday, April 27, 2013

Psychic Ills "One Track Mind": Music Review

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This New York outfit, like its inspirations here, shuffles when it used to slam."One More Time" takes its lazy, jangling time re...
Thursday, April 25, 2013

The House of Love's "She Paints Words in Red": Music Review

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Two decades after this British guitar-based, atmospheric band’s dissolution, this second album in a reunion phase joins singer/songwrite...
Tuesday, April 23, 2013

The Black Angels' "Indigo Meadow": Music Review

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While this talented band's last album, Phosphene Dream , drifted into Revolver -era references, Indigo Meadow opts for acid pop. In...
Sunday, April 21, 2013

Kinski's "Cosy Moments": Music Review

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Seattle-based, so the turns to '70s hard rock and gloomy grunge first diverging where we left off with the band six years ago on Down ...
Friday, April 19, 2013

Dump's "Superpowerless" + "I Can Hear Music": Reviews

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James McNew's solo moniker plays off his talents in typically sly form. Does "dump" mean a heap of lo-fi recordings piled...
Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Archers of Loaf: "Vee Vee": Music Review

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Too Edgy For Pop, Too Sly For Punk? This expanded re-issue of the band’s second full-length opens more space in its compressed product...
Monday, April 15, 2013

Sléibhte Naomh Jacinto

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Chonaic mé pictiúr eagsúlaí le ealaíntóir áitiúl go cumasach le déanaí. D'fhoghlaim mé faoi Emil Kosa óg go cumasach. Ní raibh fhíos a...
Saturday, April 13, 2013

Feedtime: "The Aberrant Years": Music Review

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Push your head inside an amplifier. Imagine Wire's lyrical minimalism and compression of song structure, crossed with an Australian un...
Thursday, April 11, 2013

Russ Bestley and Alex Ogg's "The Art of Punk": Book Review

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Nine hundred images, mostly record sleeves from recalled or forgotten bands, illustrate this large-format presentation of the evolution, r...
Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Joe Beil's "Beyond the Music": Book Review

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Interviewing an actress, bicyclist, Catholic Worker, chef, chocolatier, Cuban-American fan of Green Day, Fulbright Scholar working for C...
Sunday, April 7, 2013

Stewart Dean Ebersole's "Barred for Life": Book Review

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How "The Bars" signify not only Black Flag's relevance three decades after their career, but the impact of punk upon those wh...
Friday, April 5, 2013

Bill Ash's "Under the Wire": Book Review

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Growing up in Dallas when it still echoed from the Wild West, following the boxcars as a hobo during the Depression, Bill Ash prepared for...
Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Nicholson Baker's "Human Smoke": Book Review

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Without a preface, as if a dramatically told and chronologically arranged series of note cards, he spends nearly 500 pages laying out hist...
Monday, April 1, 2013

Pharaoh's hard heart

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Commenting on my review last year of the  "New American Haggadah," Matthew A. Levine asked c/o Amazon: I just wonder about th...
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John L. Murphy / "Fionnchú"
Los Angeles, California, United States
Medievalist turned humanities professor; unrepentant but not unskeptical Fenian; overconfident accumulator of books & music; overcurious seeker of trivia, quadrivia, esoterica. Born in Los Angeles but should have been born in my parental Ireland. Eclectic music, reading, ideas-- often Celtic and/or medievally oriented. Tá Gaeilge a chuid feín dom faoi láthair, ach nílim cainteoir líofacht fós! Dw i'n dysgu Cymraeg tipyn nefa'.
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