A fair amount of popular music is devoted to slapping a spotlight on a young, pouting girl while she struts confidently, singing in implicit tones of seduction at an audience that feels, probably, like they are leering more than listening. This image obviously always asserts “sex” whether it’s plastered on an album cover, cut up [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Show Review’
February 12, 2009
The Donora Post
So I’m a month and a half removed from Donora’s coming out party in front of a healthy crowd on Carson st. at the Rex Theater on January 19th, 2008. Along side Bre’er Fox and Meeting of Important People, Donora closed the set by cruising through the bulk of their self titled debut. The album [...]
February 12, 2009
The Girl Talk Post
I had read about his shows. I had seen the YouTube clips from Chicago, New York, Coachella, and Pitchfork. I even heard a first hand account of how he played, quite illegally(though I highly doubt that fazed him), through a sweat drenched night at a frat house basement in the middle of St. Louis, after the cops shut down his show, literally cutting the power off, on the campus Washington University of St. Louis earlier that night. But even after all this hype, the many glowing reviews and my own ridiculously high standards; I wa.s still unprepared for how much undiluted, visceral fun I was about to experience
