Metromixed! High Places, Kings of Leon
More music reviews from my Metromix pile went live this week. Kings of Leon is a Southern rock hybrid whose ambition might surpass its skills, but that is for you […]
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Metromixed! Tindersticks, Amanda Palmer
I’ve decided to group my Metromix reviews together as they roll out, rather than one by one. Things are heating up here at Camp Morphizm and I am busier than […]
Metromixed! New Year, Shaky Hands
The reviews keep rolling in. This time around, two bands with clever names make fractured pop that sounds like it rolled out of the garage dirty and beautiful. The New […]
Calexico’s Carried to Dust Takes Flight
This desert noir soundtracker stands out for a reason. Spinning sinister tales of border-blurring folk, rock and pop, Joey Burns and John Convertino’s brainchild has mastered the the sound America […]
Apollo Sunshine Gets Noisy, Birdmonster Gets Too Comfortable
More from my Metromix stash, pals of Morphizm. This time around, I take a dive into 21st century pop music, in all its deviation, derivation and divination. That’s a mouthful, […]
Theresa Andersson, New Orleans’ Swedish Sonic Hummingbird
The Labor Day holiday was nice, but the post-holiday deluge is fearsome. And not just because a slew of my Metromix have rolled in, including this one from Swedish export […]
Tussle’s Cream Cuts Taste Like…Mitchum?
I’ve had some mind trips on the San Francisco’s electro-whatever outfit Tussle lately. A spiel for Wired, a review for Metromix. I still haven’t been able to wrap my head […]
Topaz & Mudphonic’s Boogie Ain’t Bad
A batch of my reviews have gone live on Metromix, including this swampy funk from Texas, a state I usually hate. OK, I still hate it. It’s the worst state […]
Lykke Li Is A Lucky Swede, Kristoffer Ragnstam Is A Rock Mouthful
The Swedish have invaded Morphizm! Between Lykke Li and Kristoffer Ragnstam, I’m drowning in the alphabet and pining for the days of Ingmar Bergman. But the better news is both […]
The Silent Years’ Globe-Trotting Rock
Like the Flaming Lips and Mercury Rev before them, The Silent Years have a gift for bizarro pop and rock that explodes into noise as easily as it rides subtle, […]
Pierre de Reeder’s Optimistic Pop
As the bassist for popular Los Angeles heartbreakers Rilo Kiley, Pierre de Reeder has taken a back seat to two child actors at the peak of their careers. So to […]
Be My Bloody Valentine, Darker My Love
More reviews from the Metromix front, pals of Morphizm. I’ve been hard at work listening to good and bad stuff for them, and lucky for me I finally found some […]
Saint Fink: An Interview With The Faint
I’ve been tailing The Faint for a couple of weeks now, as Metromix asked for an interview and a review. Not a problem, as I’m down with any band, even […]
Wild Sweet Orange Tastes Like Citrus Chicken
Slowly working myself back into the mix, and I could use some good tunes to help me out. But the angst-ridden suburban rock of Wild Sweet Orange isn’t what I’m […]
Chatting With Piano Girl Vanessa Carlton
Vanessa Carlton, Piano Girl Singer-songwriter and piano prodigy Vanessa Carlton has been touring like mad in support of her latest effort “Heroes and Villains,” but the grind doesn’t show in […]
Nine Inch Nails Doesn’t Slip
Trent Reznor is a technological visionary, whose bold moves are shifting a bloated music industry behemoth to the internet. But can he still rock? I reviewed his disc for Metromix […]
Black Kids Are Alright
I’ve been swimming with Black Kids lately for Metromix. I feel like I have been drowning in summer sex pop for days now. But my interview with Black Kid leader […]
The Jam’s Paul Weller Dreams of Sleep
A shiteload of my Metromix reviews hit all at once, including this one for Paul Weller, architect of The Jam, Style Council and other bands. Over the last three decades, […]
Amy Ray Rocks Harder On Kinder
In fact, it may be better than anything the Indigo Girls have ever done.