10- His cute little smile, he makes when he sleeps. 9- The way he keeps his socks on all the time, even when he’s in bed. 8- He looks damn good in a dress shirt. 7- He give AMAZING massages. 6- He comments my myspace almost everyday, because he knows it makes me smile. 5- The way his upper lip quivers when he kisses me. 4- He drives me everywhere,…
DeVotchKa’s fifth album, A Mad And Faithful Telling, came out last week, and if press and radio are any indication, this is turning out to be their best received release ever. The Denver quartet holds the coveted #1 spot on both the CMJ Top 200 chart and the CMJ AAA chart, and is receiving rave reviews from across the globe.
Of The First Born Son has announced upcoming tour dates with Fredericton, NB based We The Undersigned. Of The First Born Son recently parted ways with guitarist Mike Rideout and bassist Curt Long. The group is currently auditioning replacements and will make an announcement shortly.
I know that for a while I’ve actually wanted to use shopping cart software for the magazine. Before tonight, I had no clue where to find it. Ashop commerce is the premiere place to find this ecommerce software, and it is located on an incredibly easy to shop web site. No matter how much experience individuals have with browsing, individuals will be able to find the right type of shopping…
THE SWORD: ENTIRE NEW ALBUM, “GODS OF THE EARTH”, AVAILABLE FOR STREAMING      THE SWORD has made its brand new album, Gods of the Earth, available for streaming in its entirety on the band’s MySpace page. Check it out now at this location. THE SWORD’s Gods of the Earth will drop on April 1, via Kemado Records. The follow up to the band’s critically acclaimed debut Age of Winters, Gods…
Jersey Beat #74 / Full-Sized / 152 Pages / Jim Testa, 418 Gregory Avenue, Weehauken, NJ 07086 / Reviewed 27 November 2003 While this may be Jim’s largest issue to date, #74 was the issue I literally flew through, as it contains a slew of excellent reviews, interviews, and other materials to provide for a decent amount of reading material. By far, the most shining example of the killer writing…
Canadian songwriter/musician/singer Veda Hille releases her 13th album This Riot Life, this Spring. The album is being released worldwide on Ape House, the label owned by XTC leader Andy Partridge. The release will be followed by touring in Canada, the UK, and Europe.     This Riot Life is full of lush sounds, funny and warm quirky words and great storytelling. It’s intense, densely orchestrated and at times ferocious exploration of…
Into The Wild / 2008 Paramount Vantage / 148 Minutes / http://www.intothewild.com / http://www.paramountvantage.com / Into The Wild is a film adaptation of the Jon Krakauer book that in turn details the story of Christopher McCandless, an individual struck with wanderlust that ultimately drove eir to set up shop in Alaska. Ultimately dying there, this story (and film) looks to probe McCandless’ soul to see what made eir tick. The…
The June 10 release of Green Rocky Road fills in the lacunae in the rightly romanticized mythos of the late folk music legend Karen Dalton and goes a long way in clarifying her crucial role in the evolution of modern acoustic music from “folk” source materials. The only formal studio recordings made during her lifetime — released in 1969 and 1971 respectively — were thoroughly dissected upon their recent re-release.…
Singstar has been one of my favorite games of the last few years, even if I can sing at all. I also grew up listening to the radio in the 1990s, so the combination of Singstar with songs from the 1990s is something that was right up my alley. Individuals that have played Singstar before will be familiar with how to play Singstar ‘90s; essentially you pick a sing, pick…
