A Greener Mind: Colleen Green’s “Milo Goes to Compton”
A re-release of the first full-length from one-woman-band Colleen Green, Milo Goes to Compton comes back to life right on the heels of her 2011 outings, Green One and Cujo. In a broad field of female-fronted retro-rock, Green’s ace comes from a higher grade of slack alongside the standards and traditions of weed-fueled, homemade record-making.
You Clean Up Pretty Good: Disappears’s Pre Language
With last year’s Guider, Chicago’s Disappears started out making a punchy EP and wound up with a spiraling, roomy full-length LP on their hands. By expanding the closing track “Revisiting” to a full side’s worth of chug and pulse, the band lifted 2011’s Guider beyond garage-psych hallmarks. They tipped their hand, revealing a seemingly infinite combination of winning cards.
Riding “Horse Back” Across Time: The Return of Crazy Horse
The range unfolds immediately beneath a purple, mountain-less sky; the wild cadence of hoofs, the thunder and crunch, the wind parting the mane of one of God’s most beautiful creatures.
Crazy Horse’s Billy Talbot, Ralph Molina and Frank “Poncho” Sampedro still kick up their fair share of dust, wind and grit. Joined with the thunderhead guitars of Canadian singer-songwriter Neil Young, theirs are kicks both elemental and electric with all the racket and revelation of a natural disaster.
Deceptively simple, and with a major part purely American noise, the Horse returned from pasture on January’s “Horse Back.”
Guided by “Classic” Voices: Let’s Not Go Contextualizing the Factory
It’s time to welcome back Guided by Voices, even if you didn’t have the chance to miss them.
I was too young to catch this version of the band the first time around. With considerable time having passed between their latest release and 1996’s Under the Bushes Under the Stars, the “classic” Guided by Voices’ January return challenges listeners to forget the records and lineups that carried the GBV stamp for the better part of a decade. Although the GBV banner was retired in 2004, many fans felt the truest dynamic died when main man Robert Pollard dismissed Tobin Sprout, Kevin Fennell and Greg Demos after Under the Bushes….
Fire Up the Fire-Up Chainsaw: Celebrating a New Season of “Delocated”
Silly masks and strange voices are a vintage formula for funny.
As the hilarious nigh-vanity project of funnyman Jon Glaser (ex – “SNL,” “Late Night w/ Conan O’Brien”) debuts its third season on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim at midnight this Feb. 2, the premiere will be a testament to what has sprung up from the marriage of a ski mask and a funny voice.
Employing a variation on a character that appeared prior to and during his days as a writer and performer on “Late Night,” Glaser plays “Jon,” a witness-protection enrollee and reality TV star (and, yes, the quotations are part of the character’s name). A target of the Mirminskys, a Russian crime family, “Jon’s” face is obscured and his voice modified.
You’re Welcome, South Carolina: Colbert & Cain
The political scene in Charleston, South Carolina.
One man wants on the ballot, the other might as well be off.
Together, they arrived here Friday in the official vehicle of a defunct campaign to address an overflowing Cistern Yard, at the College of Charleston.
On the eve of the Republican Primary, or the election for “President of United States of South Carolina,” former Republican nomination candidate Herman Cain joined comedian Stephen Colbert in the Holy City, backed by the Coastal Carolina University Marching Band and a local gospel choir.
