Spiraling

There are not enough songs about pretending to be your lesbian friend's fiancé in front of her father to enable her to elope with her girlfriend. Read More

I wont bore you with a long intro, since we all know nobody reads intros. Read More

I never thought I'd be able to write about music for a living, and for kind of fucked-up reasons that defeat the fun part of being a music critic. Read More

reads the latest blog entry on the Austin-by-way-of-Orlando band New Roman Times' Myspace page. Read More

How many people became Lifter Puller fans between 2000 and 2003? Read More

The song's first breaths -- a mystical exhale of spooky, spiraling acoustic guitar layers -- betray the chug-chug-chugging death march to follow. Read More

Wesleyan graduate, cohort of Professor Anthony Braxton and Taylor Ho Bynum, leader of duo with violist Jessica Pavone, Mary Halvorson brings her Quintet to Firehouse 12 in New Haven for 2 sets of exciting and challenging jazz. Read More

Welcome to another edition of CD Impressions, the bi-weekly feature at JPP that allows the music writers to offer brief opinions and critiques on recent albums. Read More