Entries from July 2009

July 29, 2009

Nothing People, Late Night (S-S)

My review of Late Night, the newest album by Nothing People, appears in this week’s LEO Weekly:
As far as careerist schemes go, naming your band Nothing People and titling your first album Anonymous has to be pretty high up on the list of bad ideas. Yet California’s Nothing People’s lack of such ambitions is refreshing [...]

July 22, 2009

Ofege, Try and Love (Academy)

The following review ran in today’s LEO Weekly:
Continuing the current explosion of excellent 1970s African music being reissued in the West for the first time, Brooklyn’s Academy Records (a reissue label started by quite possibly the best vinyl store in the country) has reissued Try and Love, the 1973 debut album by Nigeria’s Ofege.
Whereas Nigeria’s [...]

July 12, 2009

R. Keenan Lawler, Nick Hennies at the SWAN DIVE Saturday, August 8

(Image of R. Keenan Lawler at Terrastock 2008 swiped with love from Chris Barrus’s Flickr photostream. Image of Nick Hennies and a dog swiped from whiskeyandapples.com.)
R. KEENAN LAWLER
NICK HENNIES (Austin, Texas)
Saturday, August 8
The Swan Dive
9 PM
$5, 21 and over
R. KEENAN LAWLER is a musician and sound artist based in Louisville Kentucky. For over 25 years [...]