Tag: Caitlin Welsh
[MUSIC: Album Review] Fun. – Some Nights
Fun. Some Nights Warner ** The Format’s best album, Dog Problems, is a scuffing, dorky pop-operetta, a cabaret in Chuck Taylors – occasionally cloying, but lovable in its glossy honesty and unabashed disregard for coolness. But Dog Problems was written from the point of view of a 20-something-year-old, deep in the crisis moment of realising [...]
Posted: April 9th, 2012 under Album Reviews, Brag 456 (April 2), Music.
Tags: Caitlin Welsh, Fun., Some Nights, The Brag
[MUSIC: Album Review] The Shins – Port of Morrow
The Shins Port of Morrow Sony **** Port of Morrow continues on the path set out by 2007’s Wincing The Night Away – one paved with deft, subtle textures and, yes, “studio gloss”. But while The Shins are no longer cheerfully low-tech Sub Pop underdogs, James Mercer is still writing the same songs he [...]
Posted: April 1st, 2012 under Album Reviews, Brag 455 (March 26), Music.
Tags: Caitlin Welsh, Port of Morrow, The Brag, The Shins
[FILM: Review] The Hunger Games
The Hunger Games Released March 22 **** Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) is a self-sufficient 17-year-old trying to keep her mother and sister fed in the poorest region of Panem, which used to be North America. The Hunger Games are a grand punishment imposed on the poor by the ruling class, for an attempted uprising three [...]
Posted: April 1st, 2012 under Arts, Brag 455 (March 26), Film Reviews.
Tags: Caitlin Welsh, Donald Sutherland, Elizabeth Banks, Gary Ross, Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Lenny Kravitz, Stanley Tucci, The Brag, The Hunger Games
[MUSIC: Album Review] White Rabbits – Milk Famous
White Rabbits Milk Famous Mute/EMI *** White Rabbits have never quite managed to take off for some reason, despite testing out a couple of cannily crafted versions of themselves. On their debut, Fort Nightly, they sounded like an unhinged Cold War Kids in a roadhouse bar; they scored some solid airplay with the hauntingly frenetic [...]
Posted: March 26th, 2012 under Album Reviews, Brag 454 (March 19), Music.
Tags: Caitlin Welsh, Milk Famous, The Brag, White Rabbits
[MUSIC: Interview] Craig Finn
Craig Finn Victoria, Bitter By Caitlin Welsh Apollo Bay’, the first track on Craig Finn’s new album Clear Heart Full Eyes, features the refrain, ‘Vietnamese / and six or seven VPs’. Or is it ‘Phoebes’? Neither. Turns out you can get it driving a car; you can get it singing in bars. Matter of fact, [...]
Posted: March 26th, 2012 under Brag 454 (March 19), Interviews, Music.
Tags: Caitlin Welsh, Clear Heart Full Eyes, Craig Finn, The Brag