How ironic that after years fronting the hugely influential but desperately overlooked Hnsker Dn, Bob Mould's first project with new band Sugar, 1992's Copper Blue, would become the most commercially successful project of his career. Of course, it was released just as the seeds sown by his former band were bearing bountiful fruits in the post-Nirvana alternative nation, which provided ample explanation for its phenomenal success. But Sugar were well deserving of their success, regardless ...   [ read more ]

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"From the straight-faced thumping and bumping basslines, the jiving electric piano, and the fidgety, hitching guitar playing, with its funk twitch and sharp baritone picking, one might mistakenly address The Boom as a funk revivalist band. Not so. Though the brass section shows reverence to the ?seventy's, their swerving and strutting are more Miles Davis than P-Funk, more blue than red. Out in front, weaving and tandem riffing, the trombone, alto sax and trumpet express their broad influences and melodic ...   [ read more ]

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Chas Smith's Nikko Wolverine proposes strange new sonorities obtained through his own invented instruments. These metal resounding objects (sometimes wired) bear exotic names like the copper box, the bass tweed, the Lockheed, or the DADO. They produce sounds that feel part percussion, part string, part electronics. Smith uses them to produce meditative alien soundscapes where time comes to a halt. The three-part suite "Nikko Wolverine" makes a beautiful aural experience; one wishes he could see...   [ read more ]

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