Nick Minichino
Nick Minichino
Recent Stories
Miley, I can’t wait to ‘See You Again’
Perhaps the most telling scene in “Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert” is the Y78-sponsored High Heel Derby. A mob of tweens’ fathers, duct-taped into high heels, race across a parking lot to win tickets to the show — and backstage passes to boot.
Evangelical sophomore slump
A strong young band takes its talent in an undesirable direction on its sophomore album — is there anything more disappointing?
'Wind' blows Young astray
The man who reinvented country-rock gets lots in its over-sentimentality
If "Prairie Wind" were Neil Young's first posthumous album, it would have been a grand one. Though the idiosyncratic folk-rock icon still lives, the overcooked sense of his mortality looms heavily over this record. When tempered by delicate melodies...
Dr. Leo shakes his indie groove thaaang
Ted Leo was too busy turning 30 last month to realize that punk rock is for kids. He must have forgotten that juvenile lyrics about a girl, or being vaguely depressed, or equating American presidents to Hitler, sung over unimaginative guitar pounding...
They're a hardcore band for real, only sort of disco, too
At first listen, it's hard to figure out where the half-hardcore, half-disco sound of Q and Not U's "Power" fits into the wider scheme of indie-rock. The album certainly relies heavily on synthesized sound, but it is livelier and infinitely more punk...
'Medulla' is just so ... Bjork
Music Review
Bjork's name has effectively become an adjective to describe her work, and it is really the only satisfying way to describe her new album Medulla. For example, the song "Where is the Line?" is simply Bjork. The track originally sounds ludicrous -- as...
Not much is new with these Blues covers
Music
Anyone who bought Aerosmith's "Honkin' on Bobo" looking for a straightforward homage to classic blues made the wrong choice. Ê"Honkin on Bobo" is not that record; Eric Clapton's "Me and Mr. Johnson," which came out on the same day, is. Clapton's...