The increasing complexity of popular music has evolved right along with the advances in recording studio and electronic musical equipment over the past three or four decades, allowing the steady manipulation(i.e. control) of literally every note in a musical composition to come with relative ease in post-production. That’s not to say the technological advances in [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Brillobox’
February 17, 2009
The Delta Spirit Bring Soulful, Righteous Folk to Pittsburgh
Take a good, hard listen to the Focal Point feature on Pittsburgh’s own public radio station, WYEP, half way through the morning every day of the week and tell me if it excites you. The station’s format is folk-based but bloated with mediocre, adult contemporary singer/songwriters pawning off their tame and expected catalog with about [...]
February 13, 2009
Handsome Furs Set “Glitch” on Fire
Damned if Dan Boeckner and wife Alexei Perry aren’t determined to make their modest two-piece outfit, Handsome Furs, sound like a shit-thrilling orchestra of sorts. Listening to their music, I find myself easily imagining these two lovers patiently piecing together elegies of a forgotten natural world as they watch their hated “city” burn, smolder, and [...]
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 [...]
