Music news, profiles of bands or labels, the tunes that Monkey currently grooves to
So as my father-in-law would say, I have three days and a wake-up before I fly to Scandinavia. Starting off in Helsinki and then taking a boat across the Baltic to Stockholm, I don't suspect the weather will be any…
When I was a kid my parents had a subscription to the Saint Louis Symphony and I quickly became indoctrinated to the all-so-civilized world of Bach, cocktails at intermission, and polite applause. Often the music itself was so soothing that before long my eyelids became heavy and I sank deeper and deeper into my cushy, red seat.
I would dream that I was in one of those British period dramas. Sitting up in my box. Nodding down in approval. Peering through opera glasses. Turning to my cultured friends and smiling knowingly, “This is the shit.”
I was beginning to doubt whether winter was ever going to come to Cincinnati - the average temperature had been in the high 40s-low 50s during December and January - but then that rat-bastard groundhog had to go and see…
One of the stand outs in my current rotation of songs is the Decision by the Young Knives, a band out of Oxford, England. The song comes from an EP the trio put out in November. At first listen it…
Seamus, you said that you were reluctant to post anything about Jenny Lewis’s new album because of the amount of press she’s been getting, but I hope we can use this site in the way we’ve used emails in the…