Back in the '90s, traveling burlesque troupes had not yet refined their understandings of what audiences wanted from a retro-vaudeville performance. (Today's burlesque troupes haven't, either, which is that audiences don't want them, period.)Click on image for a bigger 'Stiff.
This explains the bricolage approach of The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus, today's entry in a series featuring old photos from the Pitch music archives that will keep going until someone comes and takes eight boxes of worthle
Danko Jones' Never Too Loud is more of the same from the Canadian three-piece. It's good, but after listening to the album a couple times, it's become clear that Jones' sexual braggadocio is starting to wear a little thin. KISS did it to death with stuff like "Love Gun" and "Dr. Love" nearly 30 years ago. Listening to Never Too Loud is a stellar rock album, but halfway through it, you start to feel like you're sitting next to that dude at the bar who won't stop going on about all the "top-shelf
