Email Author Dave Clifford

1998 Stories by Dave Clifford

• Reviews

  published December 30, 1998

  Various Artists Cue's Hip Hop Shop Volume One (Dogday) Frank "DJ Cue" Cuevas didn't have a difficult time recruiting qualified... More >>

• Reviews

  published December 16, 1998

  EinstYrzende Neubauten The Warfield Wednesday, Dec. 9 For all bodies in flux, there are moments of motion and moments of... More >>

• Reviews

  published December 9, 1998

  Cecil Taylor Quartet Qu'a: Live at the Iridium Vol. 1 (Cadence Jazz) Veteran pianist Cecil Taylor has a reputation for playing... More >>

• Reviews

  published November 25, 1998

  Smile Girl Crushes Boy (Headhunter/Cargo) Like the Beach Boys before them, Smile sings of the prosaic and the traumatic with... More >>

• Reviews

  published November 18, 1998

  Jets to Brazil Orange Rhyming Dictionary (Jade Tree) Blake Schwarzenbach carries a heavy weight on his shoulders. With Orange... More >>

• Reviews

  published October 21, 1998

  The Murder City Devils Empty Bottles, Broken Hearts (Sub Pop) Sunny Day Real Estate How It Feels to Be Something On ... More >>

• Reviews

  published October 7, 1998

  Amy Rigby Middlescence (Koch International) On 1996's Diary of a Mod Housewife, Amy Rigby was pushing 40 and running for her... More >>

• Live

  published September 23, 1998

  Tori Amos Oakland Arena Tuesday, Sept. 15 Tori Amos does sad better than most anyone. Survivor of religion, rape, marriage, and... More >>

• Reviews

  published September 23, 1998

  Lambchop What Another Man Spills (Merge) Despite a Nashville home and album cover pleas to visit the Country Music Hall of Fame... More >>

• Hear This

  published September 9, 1998

  Black Heart Procession Somewhere between Hank Williams and Twin Peaks marches the Black Heart Procession. Filled with morose and odd blues... More >>

• Reviews

  published September 2, 1998

  Willie Nelson Teatro (Island) Hounded by the IRS, beset by personal tragedy, and plain worn-out by the ever-diminishing success... More >>

• Reviews

  published August 26, 1998

  Jarboe Anhedoniac (Self-Released) In the short time since the cathartic obliteration of Swans at the beginning of this year,... More >>

• Reviews

  published July 22, 1998

  The Monorchid Who Put Out the Fire? (Touch and Go) The existential angst of ineffectual white males is well past new or... More >>

• Reviews

  published July 8, 1998

  Lucinda Williams (Koch International) Lucinda Williams Car Wheels on a Gravel Road (Mercury) There's a 10-year gap... More >>

• Reviews

  published July 1, 1998

  Robert Pollard Waved Out (Matador) After a few dozen albums, EPs, singles, and lineup changes, this much has become clear about... More >>

• Hear This

  published May 6, 1998

  Donkey Amsterdam's workhorse art-funksters Donkey bring to town nearly tuned gurgling guitars, pliant cello, tight blacksploitation drums,... More >>

• Reviews

  published April 29, 1998

  Dar Williams, Ron Sexsmith Palace of Fine Arts Saturday, April 18 In a recent online poll of folk music fans' favorite record of... More >>

• Reviews

  published April 22, 1998

  Ali Crucial (Island Black Music) As the American art-soul movement continues to gain momentum with acts like the Fugees' Lauryn... More >>

• Reviews

  published April 1, 1998

  Hole Deeper (DGC) Hole's long-awaited follow-up to their breakthrough 1994 album Live Through This is a triumphant return... More >>

• Reviews

  published March 25, 1998

  Madonna Ray of Light (Maverick) "I traded fame for love," are the first words out of Madonna's mouth on Ray of Light. Like hell... More >>

• Reviews

  published March 11, 1998

  ... And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead (Trance Syndicate) ... as well as the trail leading back to their Sonic Youth... More >>

• Reviews

  published February 25, 1998

  Mark Elf Trickynometry (Jen Bay Jazz) Mark Elf is one of those people who seem to think in music. Hiply articulate, the jazz... More >>

• Hear This

  published February 4, 1998

  Sunshine Prague's Sunshine captivate with a swirl of Joy Division's frigid desolation, Jimi Hendrix's acid rock, the obscurant hardcore... More >>

• Reviews

  published January 28, 1998

  Sixteen Horsepower Low Estate (A&M) Nostalgic music need not be ironic. Or so declare Denver's Sixteen Horsepower with the... More >>

• Reviews

  published January 21, 1998

  Lesbian Favorites: Women Like Us (Rhino) "Womyn's music" pioneers Alix Dobkin and Cris Williamson strummed their way into Sapphic... More >>