VIDEO: Freddy Jones Band — “Those Diamonds”
If you’re ready for a break from the typical sad bastard song club fare, the Freddy Jones Band has a nice spring song for you. If “Those Diamonds” made you dance in your seat a little bit and you live…
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Eric Peter Schwartz AND Campfest!
You may remember Eric Peter Schwartz as the guy with the delightful love song centered around Dungeons & Dragons. I was expecting more of the same on Schwartz’s latest release, Casual Ghosts. While Schwartz offers humble, humorous ditties like “Hot…
Krom — Mama Blue
Metal Postcard Records brings us another bizarrely tasty treat from the rock’n’roll underbelly of Southeast Asia. Krom’s trance-like blues brings us the seedy underbelly of a developing city (or is that my orientalist imagination?) Either way, the song is well…
Speaker of the Dead — The Ballad of the Undercrust
God damn it. I’m in love with Gregory McKillop. But I already told you that. Speaker of the Dead was Greg’s punk rock brass band. Don’t worry, it works. The backing band gives a sense of monumental urgency to the…
Joseph Michael Wharton — Los Matando Abrazo
So I know I’m only halfway through the Spanish lessons on Duolingo, but shouldn’t the title be Los Matandos Abrazos? Anyway, Google translate tells me it means “the killing embraces.” Speculations on Spanish syntax aside, Joseph Michael Wharton’s music is…