New News Gets Old Real Quick By Brian Polk Art by Jason White Published Issue 108, December 2022 “Happy To See Me” Is Kind Of A Weird Euphemism For “Boner” “Is that a candy bar in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?” A popular joke from childhood, this phrase was indeed …
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New News Gets Old Real Quick By Brian Polk Published Issue 107, November 2022 Do You Think O’Doul’s Will Ever Release A Cocaine-free Powder? I think it would be a delightful addition to its line of alcohol-free beer. And while they’re at it, they could probably make speed-free meth, CBD (which is basically THC-free pot), …
Queen City Sounds By Tom Murphy Published Issue 107, November 2022 A Shoreline Dream – Loveblind The lead track, “Alarms Stop Ringing,” presents the classic dreamlike swirl of melody, but inside that transporting vortex of sound is grit, noise and discordant elements that run through much of the album. The gorgeously blissed out aspect of …
Queen City Sounds By Tom Murphy Published Issue 106, October 2022 Church Fire – puppy god Nearly four years since the release of the basically prophetic summer camp doom diary, Church Fire‘s new album out now on Witch Cat Records is somehow noisier, more confrontational and more both fraught with and purging of the trauma …
Life Just Keeps On Going, Doesn’t It? (Observations, Mishaps and You-knows) By Brian Polk Art by Molly Wirtz Published Issue 106, October 2022 The First Couple Of Times I Saw “Quiet Quitting,” I Thought It Was “Quiet Quilting” And I concluded it was a nice little trend. What could be more quaint than a bunch …
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This Mudane Life: Adventures In Whatever This Is By Brian Polk Art by Julianna Beckert Published Issue 105, September 2022 I Was Thinking Of It As A Vasecto-me When Really It’s A Vasecto-us Darling, I must confess that I am guilty of some very short-sighted, self-centered thinking. You see, when you first mentioned I should …
Queen City Sounds By Tom Murphy Published Issue 105, September 2022 Lazy Realtors – Store Bought Although recorded at a professional studio (Mighty Fine Productions) and mastered in a way that preserves the fidelity of the intimacy of the performances well, this debut EP from Lazy Realtors maintains a charming touch of lo-fidelity aesthetics and …
Salacious Details, Blather, and Other Mundane Chatter By Brian Polk Art by Eric Joyner Published Issue 104, August 2022 I Have One Major Regret About The Wish I Made To Go Back In Time The genie that granted me the wish was probably aware of my folly when I told him I would like to …
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Queen City Sounds By Tom Murphy Published Issue 104, August 2022 Barstool Messiah – Whiskey Baptismal On this latest offering from Barstool Messiah the band exemplifies a certain sound that one heard more of in Denver around 20 years ago, but more refined with perhaps melodic punk vocal choruses akin to that of The Fluid, …
Queen City Sounds By Tom Murphy Published Issue 103, July 2022 A Strange Happening – s/t No normal band would sample a sizable chunk of the “The House in Cypress Canyon” episode of the radio series Suspense originally broadcast on December 5, 1946 for the introduction to an album. Much less follow that up with …