The Album Leaf’s A Chorus Of Storytellers: Two Cent Review
Posted in Album Reviews, Reviews with tags the Album Leaf on 01/19/2010 by Kurt OrzeckBeach House’s Teen Dream: Two Cent Review
Posted in Album Reviews, Reviews with tags Beach House, Grizzly Bear, Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark, Simply Red on 01/17/2010 by Kurt OrzeckThe Unwinding Hours’ The Unwinding Hours: Two Cent Review
Posted in Album Reviews, Reviews with tags Aereogramme, Mogwai, Silversun Pickups, the Delgados, the Unwinding Hours on 01/17/2010 by Kurt Orzeck3 Inches Of Blood’s Cam Pipes Geeks Out On Tolkien, ‘Dungeons & Dragons’
Posted in Features, Interviews, What You Readin' For? with tags 3 Inches of Blood, Black Dahlia Murder, Brian Posehn, Cam Pipes, Judas Priest on 01/13/2010 by Kurt OrzeckIt’s Wednesday, September 9, 2009. Or, better put, “9.9.09.” Some 3 years, 3 months and 3 days ago, metalheads were having a collective kanipshin over 6.6.06, terrorizing their neighbors’ pets and carving satanic shit into their skin.
So how did the gritty falsetto belter behind 3 Inches of Blood bide his time that day? Scouting the Shire, perhaps. Or maybe slaying some dragons.
Welcome to the imaginarium of Dr. Pipes.
These Arms Are Snakes Bite The Dust; ’03 Interview Rises From The Grave
Posted in Interviews with tags Axl Rose, Black Sabbath, Botch, Brian Cook, Minus the Bear, Pretty Gifts Make Graves, Steve Snere, the Blood Brothers, Themselves, These Arms Are Snakes on 01/12/2010 by Kurt OrzeckWell, poo. These Arms Are Snakes broke up today – or made the announcement, at least. Continue reading
Aeternam’s Disciples Of The Unseen: Two Cent Review
Posted in Album Reviews, Reviews with tags Aeternam, Moonspell, Nile on 01/12/2010 by Kurt OrzeckPatrick & Eugene’s Altogether Now: Two Cent Review
Posted in Album Reviews, Reviews with tags Firewater, Kylie Minogue, Patrick & Eugene, the Flaming Lips, the Muppets on 01/12/2010 by Kurt OrzeckQuasi’s Sam Coomes In ’01: ‘There Isn’t Any Point In Us Rushing’ Albums
Posted in Interviews with tags Elliott Smith, Janet Weiss, Quasi, Sam Coomes, Sleater-Kinney on 01/11/2010 by Kurt OrzeckWay back on October 4, 2001 – with the horror of 9/11 still damp in everyone’s minds – Quasi’s Sam Coomes took a few to talk with me about his band’s then-new album, The Sword of God.
“There isn’t any point in us rushing to get albums out quickly anymore,” he confessed at the time. Continue reading




















