Paik, Ernie, Music Reviews

Review: Miles Davis Quintet and Arrington de Dionyso’s Malaikat dan Singa

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT

One question this writer doesn’t hear enough is, “Can you recommend any good Indonesian post-punk garage-rock with demonic throat-singing and free-improv bass clarinet?”

Review: Fear of Men and Orchestra Super Mazembe

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Here we go for another round of “Name That Influence,” the game that all music nerds love to play (while regular people within earshot just roll their eyes.)

Review: Maston and Little Women

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Maston’s Brian Wilson influence is most obvious, practically coming out and throttling the listener on the opening “Strange Rituals,” with piercing, metronomic organ chords that scream “Beach Boys.”

Review: Caetano Veloso, Saturday Looks Good to Me

Wed, 29 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Caetano Veloso has no idea why you might want to listen to his music. That’s assuming that you—a Chattanooga Pulse reader, like this critic—are not fluent in Portuguese.

Review: Rose Melberg, Hobo Cubes

Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

The opening “Shade Bathers” offers a thick, pulsating gelatinous mass of abstract synthetic strata, gradually becoming a more complicated, impenetrable dense white dwarf of sound.

Review: Various Artists, The Dead C

Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

If the new collection CiTR Pop Alliance Compilation, Vol. 3 presents the state of emerging indie-pop, then it sounds a lot like the state of underground indie-pop from 20 years ago.

Review: Clash the Truth, What the Brothers Sang

Thu, 09 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Forgive this writer, who can’t help but think of the Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups commercials where two people bump into each other, mixing their chocolate and peanut butter, being “two great tastes that taste great together.”

Review: Long Story Short, Sun City Girls

Wed, 01 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Brötzmann is the pioneering German hard-blowing saxophonist, called “one of the greatest alive” by none other than former President Bill Clinton, and the 6-hour, 5-disc set Long Story Short is a monstrous release documenting many things.

Review: Psychotic Quartet, Lau Nau

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Review: Lost Coves/Rough Rope, Lisa Germano

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Review: Playing Hide and Seek with the Ghosts of Dawn, New Order

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT

One Last, Good Feeling to Last Forever

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT

The Shaking Rays tribute to Dennis Palmer will not mark an end; it’s about channeling the kindness, generosity and creativity he embodied and sending it out to the cosmos, multiplied.

Review: Veronica Falls, Bryan Lewis Saunders

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Review: Brokeback, Rudresh Mahanthappa

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT