Published in The Groove Guide – February 2012 It was halfway through my interview with Eddie “King” Roeser that I realised his band Urge Overkill had played the ’95 Big Day out along with Soundgarden. And, here they both were back in the country over the next couple of months.
Published in the Groove Guide Feb 2011 It’s been six years between albums for this NYC country folk collective but the hunkering for twangy Americana still remains. Norah Jones (piano/vox), Richard Julian (vox), Jim Campilongo (guitar), Lee Alexander (bass) and Dan Rieser (drums) are not really a super group per
The following were published in The Groove Guide – October – A weekly Street Magazine on music and culture. Bjork – Biophilia 4/5 Stars Having discarded the throat-singing and beat-boxing of ‘Medulla’ and 2007’s ‘Volta’, which sounded like playtime at the Frigidaire factory, this time we get the results of
The concoction of Fat Freddy’s bubbly, terry towel trackie trombonist Joe ‘Hopepa ‘ Lindsay, this fine disc serves up some delicious brassy, and at times moochy dance hall renditions of classic Maori show tunes and strum-alongs. The Yoots are bot you background jives at your next garage partay and the
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