Tag: joanne ostrowski

Place yourself on a long railroad, in a steam train, travelling with the wind, against the grain, through the blue grasses, from Virginia to Oregon through Kentucky. Let’s say there’s a twinge of Americana in the Dark Actors’ business. But if the stage has been the steady platform for a…

His voice is as weathered as a haggard cliff face. A gift from god which he executes with such grace. His words are a succinct and personal blend of poetry that, when typed, are not comparable to anything else that the internet has the ability to chuck up. And if…

Mark Lanegan is like a liquor-soaked deity, down in the silt, keeping celestial and scrambling for faith. He sees you, me, himself and reunites us all in song; a great big melting pot of angels, souls intertwining as blithely as smoke moves through the air. His voice, the bruised communicator,…

“What is the sound of an avalanche taking out a dolphin? What do get when you cross a hamburger with a hot dog? The answer is: WILD FLAG”. And they’re here with their self-titled debut album from Portland, Oregon and Washington. Girl, girl, girl and girl forged from a number…

It seems to be increasingly rare to find a band that can permeate the sensory receptors with a deep and wholesome sound without ripping off the monsters of music gone by. We have been exposed to roughly six decades of genres breaking through and adapting mainstream and pop culture, so…

In the last ten years The Cribs have come a long way from their roots in the Merrie City. They developed as musicians and as people in the north of England, finding their feet in an old abandoned mill – an unofficial venue where they would also put on a…