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
Over at KCUR's website, they've got the top ten lists from Cyprus Avenue's Bill Shapiro and The Fish Fry's Chuck Haddix. There's some overlap in the lists (both Shapiro and Haddock picked Allen Toussaint's Bright Mississippi and the Dave Alvin & the Guilty Women record), but the two lists provide a refreshing reminder that there's music out there other than Animal Collective and assorted other indie folks whole might've put put good records this year.
Cyprus Avenue's Top Music Picks of 2
