Top Ten Spins for Week of August 25th, 2008

Bug – Album: London Zoo Keri Hilson – “Energy” Tapes N’ Tapes – “Hang Them All” Bon Iver – Album: For Emma, Forever Ago Phoenix – “Run, Run, Run” – Album: Alphabetical Television Room – ““Coffee Houses” Thelonious Monk – “Functional” – Album: Thelonious Himself Them, Roaring Twenties – “Harry Caray Frontier Hawkeye” The Tiger Lillies – “bad” – Album: Bad […] […]

Live Review: Supergrass at the Avalon, July 12, 2008

Photo by the author Despite overseas success in their native U.K., Supergrass seemed like the punchline to a joke when they were first heard stateside in the mid-90s. With a flip album title, seemingly novelty single, cheeky facial hair and a derivative sound (insert Kinks, The Who, Faces and T. Rex references here), they were by […] […]