Music Review: Dinosaur Jr mellows in middle age
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- Music Review: Dinosaur Jr mellows in middle age
- Review: Elvis Costello at Amoeba Music in Hollywood
- Evil Chords and Jazz Flourishes
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Music Review: Dinosaur Jr mellows in middle age
The Associated Press
The band’s latest is as close to mellow as Mascis is ever likely to get. Acting as producer Mascis has things going just the way he likes. Barlow and Murph act like a platform from which Mascis launches several extended guitar solos and inspired noodling. There are some great moments here. Mascis’ lazy delivery on “cean in the Way” his playful guitar intro on “ver It” the drama of “There’s No Here” and the sugary sweet melody of “See You. “But overall the album sounds a lot like Mascis’ work post-breakup. And that’s a wasted opportunity.
Review: Elvis Costello at Amoeba Music in Hollywood
Los Angeles Times
This show's instrumentation — he played acoustic guitar joined by Jim Lauderdale on the same instrument and Mike Compton on mandolin — spoke of Nashville but the songs as well as their singer's purple flim-flam-man costume and pencil-thin mustache spoke of other locales and eras from the antebellum Deep South to P. Barnum's Eastern Seaboard and beyond. This stop was part of a classic stunt of which Barnum would have approved. At noon Costello played at the Amoeba outlet in San Francisco.
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Evil Chords and Jazz Flourishes
New York Times
This seems like music for or from some ritual; it matters to say that it happens mostly in real time except for “Time Takes” halfway through the record where echoing acoustic overdubs hover over her strumming. She moves slowly but she’s a good musician and singer; this is the surprise because in her line of work you expect more dishevelment. Fortino may be a one-woman operation but if you’re looking for good aesthetics you should also remember the name Andrew Hernandez the engineer who warmed it up in his analog studio.
New Music Tuesday: The Mars Volta’s ‘ctahedron’ slows down their …
New York Daily News
Most of its songs proceed at a deliberate pace and many of them feature acoustic sections meant to sound almost pretty. Bixler-Zavala sings far more often that screams and Rodriguez-Lopez’s guitar lines shimmer rather than slash. n one level that’s a relief and not only because Mars’ earlier style wasn’t exactly calming. The band’s zeal for speed had also become predictable a problem for a group built on the shock of the new. The Mars Volta established that mantra immediately after forming from the ashes of the wonderful alterna-prog band At the Drive-In in 2002. The wildness of their debut “De-Loused in the Comatorium” made them the most challenging new rock band in eons ? the one best equipped to extend.
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