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THINGS THE GRANDCHILDREN SHOULD KNOW > by Mark Oliver Everett

THINGS THE GRANDCHILDREN SHOULD KNOW > by Mark Oliver Everett(0)

October 27, 2008

An autobiography is all about the life that’s been lived, but for Mark Everett (better known as E, frontman for EELS), that life has largely been about death.

THINGS THE GRANDCHILDREN SHOULD KNOW > by Mark Oliver Everett
BENJI HUGHES > A Love Extreme

BENJI HUGHES > A Love Extreme

It’s hard to know what to expect from a double-disc debut entitled A Love Extreme. Especially considering the artist looks like the spawn of Billy Gibbons…

EMILiANA TORRINI > Me and Armini

EMILiANA TORRINI > Me and Armini

While she mines Bjork’s territory of gliding, ethereal pitches surrounded by techno atmospherics, Torrini, with the aid of producer Dan Carey, works best in minimal settings and falls back more often on a willowy, dreamy manner of lyric effusion and storytelling.

DEERHUNTER > Microcastle

DEERHUNTER > Microcastle

Microcastle, the second full-length from Atlanta’s Deerhunter, sees Bradford Cox and company reining in-but not abandoning-the pervading experimental impulses on their sometimes arduous 2007 release, Cryptograms…


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