January 2010

Event Reviews

Amanda Palmer

The Dresden Dolls' Amanda Palmer delivers a mesmerizing rare solo performance to her faithful Orlando flock... even Neil Gaiman showed up!

Dashboard Confessional

Dashboard Confessional and New Found Glory surprise Orlando fans with an intimate, acoustic show just in time for the holidays.

Trivium

Trivium traveled Into the Mouth of Hell and ended up back in their home town of Orlando.

Features

Top 19 Dead People of 2009

Another tough year is dead and gone, leaving only the tough and the clever. Carl F Gauze remembers 19 of 2009's great and not so great dead people.

Music Reviews

"Weird Al" Yankovic

The Essential "Weird Al" Yankovic (Legacy Recordings). Review by Tim Wardyn.

Adam Lambert

For Your Entertainment (RCA Music Group). Review by Christopher Long.

Anvil

This Is Thirteen (VH1 Classics). Review by Duncan B. Barlow.

Bear in Heaven

Beast Rest Forth Mouth (Hometapes). Review by Carl F Gauze.

Betty Davis

Nasty Gal (Light in the Attic Records). Review by Carl F Gauze.

Bright Orange

Killer Lake (Infintesmal). Review by Matthew Moyer.

Sam Bush

Circles Around Me (Sugar Hill Records). Review by Tim Wardyn.

Capybara

Try Brother (The Record Machine). Review by Carl F Gauze.

Dave Matthews Band

Big Whiskey and the Groo Grux King (RCA Records). Review by Tim Wardyn.

Dead To Me

African Elephants (Fat Wreck Chords). Review by Jen Cray.

Orenda Fink

Ask The Night (Saddle Creek). Review by Matthew Moyer.

Frank Sinatra

Christmas with Sinatra and Friends (Concord Music). Review by Matthew Moyer.

Fucked Up

Couple Tracks: Singles 2002–2009 (Matador Records). Review by Laura Pontillo.

Lake

Let's Build A Roof (K-Records). Review by Carl F Gauze.

Los Cenzontles with David Hildago & Taj Mahal

American Horizon (Los Cenzontles Arts Center). Review by Carl F Gauze.

Mark Matos and Os Beaches

Words of the Knife (Porto Franco Records). Review by Carl F Gauze.

Mission Of Burma

The Sound The Speed The Light (Matador Records). Review by Carl F Gauze.

Neko Case

Middle Cyclone (Anti). Review by Tim Wardyn.

Neon Indian

Psychic Chasms (Lefse Records). Review by Matthew Moyer.

No Friends

No Friends (No Idea). Review by Jen Cray.

Dolly Parton

Dolly (Sony Legacy). Review by Matthew Moyer.

Pastels/ Tenniscoats

Two Sunsets (Domino). Review by Matthew Moyer.

Pelican

What We All Come to Need (Southern Lord). Review by Carl F Gauze.

Pestilential Shadows

In Memoriam, Ill Omen (Pulverised Records). Review by Matthew Moyer.

Ramblin' Jack Elliott

A Stranger Here (Anti, Inc.). Review by Carl F Gauze.

Ringo Starr

Y Not (Hip-O/UMe Records). Review by Matt Parish.

Subhumans

The Day The Country Died, EP/LP, From The Cradle To The Grave, Rats/Time Flies, Worlds Apart, 29:29 Split Vision (Bluurg Records). Review by Scott Adams.

Jimi Tenor / Tony Allen

Inspiration Information Vol. 4 (Strut). Review by Matthew Moyer.

The Black

Alongside Death (Pulverized Records). Review by Matthew Moyer.

The Gears and the D.I.s

Rocking At Ground Zero with Rare Cuts! (Hepcat Records). Review by Carl F Gauze.

The Koffin Kats

Forever For Hire (Stomp Records). Review by Jen Cray.

The Mary Onettes

Islands (Labrador Records). Review by Matthew Moyer.

Yoga

Megafauna (Holy Mountain). Review by Matthew Moyer.

Print Reviews

All Star Companion Volume Four

Matthew Moyer recommends Twomorrows' last volume in the All Star Companion series to pop culture scholars of all stripes. It's an essential element to any Golden Age history, when so many originals are still out of the reach of the casual fan.

Relix: The Book

Relive the decade no one claims to remember through this retrospective of Relix, a magazine that revolved around the Grateful Dead.

Collected Jack Kirby Collector Vol. 7

The four issues collected in Twomorrows latest Jack Kirby Collector are packed with interviews, pseudo-scholarly/analytical pieces, and metric tons of artwork from comics' favorite "working-class kid from the Bronx."

Grunge

Take a trip back to Seattle's musical heydey with Michael Lavine, who brings us all manner of visual treasure with Grunge.

Imagining India

How does one begin to plan the future of a country that deliberately uses late-night TV as a form of birth control? E.J. Iannelli mulls over the possibilities that IT mogul Nandan Nilekani dreams up in his book Imagining India.

Our Noise

Scott Adams finds this compelling history of Merge Records, the underdog label that beat the odds and succeeded, to be insanely readable.

Screen Reviews

All The Way From Michigan Not Mars

We follow singing sensation Rosie Thomas on tour and see how nicely everyone gets along.

Patti Smith: Dream Of Life

Patti Smith is artfully captured over 11 years, showing America's punk poet as mother, daughter, rebel, and widow. James Mann finds it a beautiful and captivating portrait of one of our greatest artists.

You Weren't There

In the near future, there will be a documentary produced on every single punk scene or band from the late '70s to mid '80s. And that's just fine.