Tag Archives: Steve Shelley
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ALBUM REVIEW: Sonic Youth finds some gold in the vaults on ‘In/Out/In’
Sonic Youth, “In/Out/In.” My parents divorced when I was 7. The separation not only meant spending every other weekend with my dad and his new girlfriend; the fracturing of my family made me skeptical that any love could survive the perils of modern life. For a time in my…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Thurston Moore reaches new latitudes of inspiration ‘By The Fire’
The place where pop and art intersect eludes most seekers. Some ambitious bands aim for the sweet spot and overshoot grossly. More commonly, a group disdains one dimension in favor of the other. Too arty for the mainstream yet too accessible for the purist, alternative rocker Thurston Moore is…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Cat Power comes home on ‘Wanderer’
There’s nothing scarier to a cat lover than a feline friend gone missing. All those anxious hours spent worrying, walking the neighborhood, leaving a bowl of milk on the doorstep, wondering what happened to that beloved companion. Chan Marshall’s first studio album in six years and her 10th under…