Originally published in The Rake’s “Broken Clock” roundup of short arts & entertainment reviews, July 22, 2004. Read the complete article on the original website. Local guitar wizard Eason’s been a reliable source of six-string zing for two decades now, both fronting his own projects and backing guys like Chan Poling and Dylan Hicks. Bees Will Bumble, his …
Originally published in The Rake’s “Broken Clock” roundup of short arts & entertainment reviews, June 25, 2004. Read the complete article on the original website. Although the wildly prolific P.G. Wodehouse turned out almost a hundred novels in his lifetime, the world can always make room for another story in his marvelously droll, light-as-a-feather comic voice. Ames’ latest …
Originally published in The Rake’s “Broken Clock” roundup of short arts & entertainment reviews, December 19, 2003. Read the complete article on the original website. Just six months after releasing The Man on the Burning Tightrope, acerbic New York combo Firewater returns with this collection of covers, a good showcase for their sense of the smartly sinister. We’ve …
Originally published in The Rake’s “Broken Clock” roundup of short arts & entertainment reviews, November 21, 2003. Read the complete article on the original website. Although it would be a mistake to overpraise the last decade of the Man in Black’s career, it’s certainly true that the four albums in his American Recordings series more than rehabilitated his …
Originally published in The Rake’s “Broken Clock” roundup of short arts & entertainment reviews, September 26, 2003. Read the complete article on the original website. Most of Jonathan Lethem’s early writing career consisted of science fiction novels that leaned toward the Philip K. Dick side of the genre—experimental, unorthodox and pounding on the door of literary respectability. When …
Originally published in The Rake’s “Broken Clock” roundup of short arts & entertainment reviews, September 26, 2003. Read the complete article on the original website. Back for their first proper album in three years, Glasgow’s finest exporters of sensitive, bespectacled pop have lost two founding members, switched labels and picked up a superstar producer in Trevor Horn, whose …
Originally published in The Rake’s “Broken Clock” roundup of short arts & entertainment reviews, May 23, 2003. Read the complete article on the original website. That’s not a typo—terroir is a French term roughly meaning “soil” that has less to do with the current geopolitical bugbear than Farrar’s ongoing fascination with American culture and traditions. A song cycle …
Originally published in The Rake’s “Broken Clock” roundup of short arts & entertainment reviews, April 24, 2003. Read the complete article on the original website. On her three previous, criminally underheard records, Amy Rigby won our hearts with her tuneful, world-weary wit, mapping out the emotional landscape of the mid-30s woman who feels wiser with age just as …
Originally published in The Rake’s “Broken Clock” roundup of short arts & entertainment reviews, March 28, 2003. Read the complete article on the original website. For Joseph Heller, there was only one catch, and that was Catch-22. Although his blockbuster first novel catapulted him to lifelong prominence as one of the century’s most important novelists, its very success …
Originally published in The Rake’s “Broken Clock” roundup of short arts & entertainment reviews, February 21, 2003. Read the complete article on the original website. He was the Hendrix of jazz, Charlie Parker. The living genius who flamed out young, so consumed by his music that he could practice 15 hours a day if he wasn’t strung out …