Just who or what Blond Bones is depends on when you ask, or when you see them perform—sometimes it’s a duo, sometimes it’s a full band. They call it …
Reprise: Some New Recordings of Classical Favorites at Knox Co. Public Library
Phoenix Chorale and Kansas City Chorale, Charles Bruffy, conductor Rachmaninoff: All-Night Vigil (Chandos, 2015) This is one of the most beautiful pieces of choir music you’ll ever hear. You may …
Local Music Review: Handsome and the Humbles
Handsome and the Humbles Have Mercy Ambition can be overrated. Take the local four-piece alt-country band Handsome and the Humbles—initially conceived as a part-time cover band, it’s taken them almost …
Local Music Review: White Stag
“Suspended Cognition,” the opening epic from White Stag’s Eos Crux EP, begins with a dissonant jazz-metal dirge bordering on modern-era King Crimson; acoustic-electric chords cycle progressively higher into an eruption …
Local Music Review: Hellaphant
Hellaphant Hellaphant Hellaphant’s discography so far adds up to about 20 minutes—two EPs, 11 songs, none of them more than three minutes long, only two of them over two minutes. …