The algorithm sensed the spooky season was in town and trick-or-treated me to this caped rocker. Isaac Rother & the Phantoms hail from a decrepit mansion decorated with string-lights and framed posters of Frankenstein, delivering some proper kitschy rock-and-roll. This is that kind of Cramps-ish gnarly surf shit that flew to the future from the… Read More Fright and Delight with Isaac Rother & the Phantoms
It’s a work night. So what? I pull up to Brooklyn Bowl with a sprained ankle and an itch for dancing. I bought the ticket for London-by-way-of-Nigeria dance band Ibibio Sound Machine the minute it was announced, and no ankle pain was going to get in the way of the show now. Jobs and workers… Read More Ibibio Sound Machine, Lollise, and Underground System at Brooklyn Bowl, September 25th 2024
It was a sleepy Saturday night. Summer had jumped out of the pool and was shivering In a towel while Fall rolled the pool cover over the blue waves. Old friends rang me up. Khruangbin was playing the Stadium again, and their third dropped out. I thought about it for a bit. I had been… Read More Khruangbin and Men I Trust, Forest Hills Stadium, September 21, 2024
Welcome back. Miss Meow, yours trewly, has gone through some changes in career and life. I had to let the keyboard gather a little dust so I could try flinging paint instead of words. But mostly I spent the late nights putting my head back on straight after having it squorshed and skweeshed by common… Read More The Rise of M-S-G 2.0
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