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Aimee Mann – &#%&*! Smilers
Sometimes music is prophetic, sometimes it tells it just like it is. Whichever of the two, Aimee Mann’s opinions and characters reign true on her newest album, @#%&! Smilers, released through her SuperEgo Records on June 3. At a time when economic speculation is high, and everyone’s whispering “recession,” she’s telling it to us bluntly, starting [...]
Continue reading...She & Him – Volume One
Monday, April 28, 2008
She & Him is the collaboration of indie folk mastermind M. Ward and actress/musician Zooey Deschanel. Zooey takes the forefront on this album with her precise vocal hits (no misses) and heartfelt lyrics, all which remind me of The Carpenters. M. Ward comes in on backup for a couple songs and I imagine does the [...]
Continue reading...Jamie Lidell – Jim
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
I don’t know much about Jamie Lidell other than someone played his first album for me a few years ago and I thought it was an LP from the 60s, maybe even Al Green. It took me about 8 months later to discover Lidell’s a white British guy with a lot of soul. When I [...]
Continue reading...- 2009 Spring Queens MFA faculty readings
- You know I’ll bust the doors down if I have to
- Eau de Toilet
- Weather Patterns
- (to be published)
- Antony and The Johnsons in Atlanta, a live review
- Enlightened
- S.O.B.
- Things that have happened & I forgot to blog about
- Queens MFA Faculty Readings Start Again
Asides 
My poem “Body Surf” was accepted for online publication by the editors over at Keyhole Magazine, a newish print and online journal out of Nashville, TN. You can read my poem online here, and check out the rest of Keyhole’s goodies here.
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Thursday, June 19, 2008
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