Mike Ladd’s “How Electricity Really Works” is as much a teaching tool as it is a brilliant bit of wordplay set to music. Do you know one of the many self-proclaimed Slam Poets who walk the streets of your community? Not so much the ones with actual poetic skill but the ones who insist that [...]
Whenever Kid Creole & The Coconuts come up it’s usually because “Endicott” started playing somewhere in the background. There’s no doubt “Endicott” was the highpoint of KC&C’s pop sensibility and tongue in cheek lyrics but the album before Endicott is just as interesting. Tropical Gangsters is much more swing oriented and jazzy, from the [...]
Shonen knife were one of those bands that you had to get turned on to by a friend or a review in a music mag. They were as radio ready as any other band in the early nineties but only college radio was playing them (and even then the DJ had to have inside [...]
I saw Incredible Force of Junior play a show in Boston on a random Wednesday night opening for a friend’s band and was floored by how great they were. I also don’t mind mentioning I developed the biggest crush on the bass player. I bought a stack of singles and their CD that night, then [...]