Interview by Kit Burns
Greg Thomson is a singer/songwriter without gimmicks, without the MTV gloss. Yet he doesn’t quite belong in the indie-rock world of irony-laden existentialists and smart asses, either. Rather, I’d put Thomson somewhere between the insightful storytelling of Jackson Browne and the painful honesty of E from the Eels.
Kit Burns: I would call [...]
Archive for April, 2008
Singer/songwriter Greg Thomson explores human truths
Posted in Interviews, Singer/Songwriter Feature Articles, tagged Elvis Costello, Jackson Browne, Radiohead, the Eels, the Who on April 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Canada’s Shelby Nelson reaches for Britpop goodness on ‘Stars to Sail By’
Posted in Music Reviews, tagged Add new tag, Britpop, John Lennon, new wave, Oasis, Pink Floyd, the Beatles, the Cars on April 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Reviewed by Kit Burns
Shelby Nelson/Stars to Sail By
Miss Britpop? You probably do. After all, the mid-’90s invasion of U.K. retro rockers (Oasis, Blur, etc) didn’t last long stateside as many Americans seem to have forgotten how appealing those English accents and Beatlesque melodies were, eventually overshadowed by the icky likes of rap-metal, Nickelback, and emo. [...]
The Callen Sisters add instrumental spice to alternative folk rock
Posted in Music Reviews, tagged alternative rock, folk, indie, Juliana Hatfield, Tegan and Sara on April 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Reviewed by Kit Burns
The Callen Sisters/The Callen Sisters
…And they sound nothing like Tegan and Sara. When I received the Callen Sisters’ CD from their publicist, that was my initial fear: Please, please, don’t make these Tegan and Sara wanna-be’s. Although I realize that Tegan and Sara have their share of fans, I am not among [...]
