” or “Where can I get one of those?” rather than “That’s amazing!”— or even more optimistically, “You’re amazing.” Knowing how to operate a piece of magic apparatus does not make anyone a magician, any more than buying a guitar and learning three chords makes someone a ...
Before we dive into the music, let me say that this album is really interesting because, upon closer inspection, it is laced with just a bit of unexpected irony: the initial purpose was to capture the folk music roots and true deep-southern sound—except that when you consider the modern ...
he was a lanky kid from Baltimore crashing punk clubs in a leather jacket, his long, greasy hair dangling precariously over a lit cigarette and, of course, that pencil mustache. It’s from this ether, from the opening chords of Elton Motello’s genderfucking “Jet Boy Jet Girl,” that...