Nicki Jaine, ‘Of Pigeons and Other Curiosities.’ Jaine sounds like a Weimar Republic cabaret singer, with a deep voice. Her aesthetic is very similar to ...
The concept sounds great—mixing Siobhan de Mare's sexy, femme fatal vocals over Robin Guthrie's shimmering wall of guitars. It works, mostly, because the...
Fatal Women is a collection of novellas and short stories written by Lee's alter-ego, Esther Garber. Thematically, these works explore Lesbian love and...
If you are expecting a straightforward dive into lesbian erotica by Tanith Lee (or Esther Garber), you will be pleasantly disappointed. This brief, dense and...
Veniss Underground, by Jeff Vandermeer. This brief sf novel blends together “The Island of Dr. Moreau” with the Orpheus and Eurydice myth. The result is a...
Joanna Newsom, "The Milk-Eyed Mender." 22-year old poppet-voiced harpist-harpischordist is the lovechild of Donovan and Kate Bush (circa "The Kick Inside")....
This is Merchant's homage to folk and traditional music, and as such, it threatens to suffer under an anthropological earnestness. However, the sounds are...
1. Everything is OK 2. Ingenue 3. The Ratio or Freckles to Stars 4. Wholeness 5. Wiser (Different) 6. Firefly Personnel: Rebecca and Ryan Cosebloom ...
http://www.kjbishop.net K.J. Bishop is an artist. One of her art nouveau styled pieces graces the cover of her novel. It's a perfect accompaniment for what's...
Ethereal Americana-band Hem opened for Vic Chestnut last night at the Black Cat. They were wonderful. The singer, Sally Ellyson, has a marvelous instrument;...
“The Crow Maiden” by Sarah Singleton. Cosmos Books. http://www.wildsidepress.com A young mother, trapped in a loveless marriage. An ex-radical, torn...
1. The Throng on the Pier 2. The Lily and the Rose 3. Waterwood 4. Stone Lake 5. Me and the Machine 6. Light on the Wall 7. The Seventh Ingress 8. Paint the...
http://www.warprecords.com 1 Pendulum 2 Small Song IV 3 One Hour Empire 4 Still Feels Like Tears 5 Violent Playground 6 Minus Two Broadcast are Stereolab's...
Collabitat Records has released the debut CD "Flowers on the Dirt Road Home" from independent vocal electronica artist deepnine (http://deepnine.com). ...
Personnel: Sarah Fimm, Peter Geraghty, Jim Perry, Mac Ritchey 1. Be Like Water 2. Wrong Side Up 3. Virus 4. SETI 5. Alien Boys 6. Smoke 7. David Johnson 8....
Personnel: Victoria Lloyd, Ben Fargen, Chris Ross 1. Pieces 2. Twenty-four Years 3. Mirror 4. Abyss 5. Silence 6. He Is There 7. Close To Me 8. Warm 9. Not...
12/11/02, 6 p.m. ET) -- Stereolab vocalist Mary Hansen died Monday (December 9) in London when she was hit by a car while riding her bicycle. She was 36. An...
Personnel: Imogen Heap, Guy Sigsworth 1. Let Go 2. Breathe In 3. It’s Good To Be In Love 4. Must Be Dreaming 5. Psychobabble 6. Only Got One 7. Shh 8. Hear...
Personnel: Beth Gibbons, Paul Webb 1. Mysteries 2. Tom The Model 3. Show 4. Romance 5. Sand River 6. Spider Monkey 7. Resolve 8. Drake 9. Funny Time Of Year ...
The Low concert last night was excellent. In a live setting, the perfect meshing of Alan and Mimi's vocals becomes apparent. His, plaintive and yearning, hers...
Azam Ali's solo album (singer of Vas) is really beautiful. It reminds me very much of Lisa Gerrard's Mirror Pool. (In fact, she acknowledges Gerrard and Liz...
The art of alchemy is in the transformation. The third book in Lee’s alchemically-based series set in a magical Venice follows this theme closer than the...
Love Spirals, "Windblown Kiss." 1. Oh So Long 2. Dejame 3. He Calls Me 4. Windblown Kiss 5. Our Nights 6. You Girl 7. How the Thieves Ride 8. You are the Gun ...
Rajna, "The Door of Serenity" 1. Djalambo 2. Belorbai 3. Tore Sensuous 4. The Door of Serenity 5. Elisia 6. Whirling Souls 7. Masati 8. Dervishing 9. Into the...
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Often hailed as a French analogue to Cocteau Twins, CDA has always been more classically minded than most ‘dreampoppers.’ Part of this has to do with the...