Posts by Eric Saeger

The Shotgun, is a monthly column of "Shotgun" CD reviews by Glide writer Eric Saeger.

Iron Maiden, Somewhere Back in Time: The Best of 1980-1989 (Sony Records) In my let’s-scare-Mom-to-death days I never really dug the kids who were into Maiden, the band who, along with my preferred Judas Priest, crafted the New Wave of British Heavy Metal sound.  Like the guys in Maiden, there was something prissy about their […]

The Shotgun is a monthly column of shotgun reviews by Glide contributor Eric Saeger.

The Shotgun is a monthly series of shotgun album reviews by Glide contributor Eric Saeger.

The Shotgun is a monthly series of shotgun album reviews by Glide contributor Eric Saeger.

Formerly Random Stabbings & Artless Critique, The Shotgun is a monthly series of shotgun album reviews by Glide contributor Eric Saeger.

Formerly Random Stabbings & Artless Critique, The Shotgun is a monthly series of shotgun reviews by Glide contributor Eric Saeger.

RANDOM STABBINGS & ARTLESS CRITIQUE – October 2007 Dropkick Murphys, The Meanest of Times (Born and Bred Records)You’re one Dropkicks album late if you’re looking for “I’m Shipping Up to Boston,” the bagpipe-punk ditty that colored Martin Scorsese’s The Departed so Irish-ly, but you’re in the same neighborhood.  Like 2005’s The Warrior’s Code, it’s a […]

RANDOM STABBINGS & ARTLESS CRITIQUE – September 2007Shout Out Louds, Our Ill Wills (Merge Records) It’s natural that Merge would want to build an entire suite of candlelit-bathtub-indie products around Arcade Fire, but Swedish quintet SOL is going to have to try something a little more innovative than myna-birding their labelmates’ hayloft symphonics and vicking […]

RANDOM STABBINGS & ARTLESS CRITIQUE – August 2007 Wise Intelligent, The Talented Timothy Taylor (Shaman Works Recordings)New Jersey’s Wise Intelligent was the go-to MC for Poor Righteous Teachers’ black-Islamist hip-hop assault of the 90s (the harmless single “Rock Dis Funky Joint” was the apex of their fame), and they almost became the next Chuck D., […]

RANDOM STABBINGS & ARTLESS CRITIQUE – July 2007 Bitter Bitter Weeks, Peace is Burning Like a River (High Two Records)In his third full-length LP, Philadelphia’s Brian McTear condenses his keep-it-simple 80s-indie formula, obsessing less on lonely-spotlight unpluggedness and more on full-band, edge-of-the-world 4-chord fluff-pomp.  His voice is of trademark caliber now, tempering the antsiness of […]

RANDOM STABBINGS & ARTLESS CRITIQUE – June 2007 Art Brut, It’s a Bit Complicated (Downtown Records)Picking up where they left off in Bang Bang Rock & Roll, the weird little punk-rock experiment that is Art Brut moves into its next level of maturity.  You’ll recall the cockney narrator exulting over seeing his Brand New Girlfriend […]

RANDOM STABBINGS & ARTLESS CRITIQUE – May 2007 I’m From Barcelona, Let Me Introduce My Friends (Mute Records) Raffi for crook-leg dancers, requiring 29 band members to get its point across.  Fans of TV’s Fawlty Towers are well familiar with Manuel the waiter’s all-purpose tag line, and ironically enough that’s the approximate size of the […]

RANDOM STABBINGS & ARTLESS CRITIQUE – April, 2007 Combichrist, What the F—k Is Wrong With You People (Metropolis Records) More like What the F—k is Wrong With Combichrist, which we’ll discuss in just a sec, because I think I know.  Combichrist is a super-techno-noise-punk project from Norway’s Andy LaPlegua, WTF  his second effort after the […]

Kristoffer Ragnstam, “Sweet Bills” (Bluhammock Records)Admirers of Spoon and Sufjan alike may find common ground in this collection of alt-rock-ified sketches of violent genre collisions tabled by an artist with a suspicious amount of consonants in his name.  The melting pot is so vast but quirkily accessible here that the easiest comparison that comes to […]

RANDOM STABBINGS & ARTLESS CRITIQUE Torpedo Boyz, “Headache Music" (Sounds From the Roof Records) Funky, kinda crunky Europeans with refreshingly major attitudes (all the funnier given their Ahnold accents), Torpedo Boyz are a lot like 70s funkadelica as seen through a Felix Da Housecat prism.  There are plenty of layers going on, which gives weight […]

RANDOM STABBINGS & ARTLESS CRITIQUE Black Elk, Black Elk (Crucial Blast Records)A band that can’t decide whether to be Red Scare calc, Melvins fuzz-froth or Lake of Dracula no-wave, and the world is better off while they’re making up their minds.  Black Elk’s cacophony will probably end up getting lumped in the section of your […]

July 2006 edition

A look at some of the newest in underground releases.

In this mystery meat pot-roast of goth-industrial-futurepop sub-Bjorkings, Ex-Swan Jarboe presents the most hiply presentable slices of her life over the past six years