Dusted Review – Impediments

Dusted

East Bay Express – Impediments

By Mark Keresman
October 21, 2009

Jeez, what year is this? I know this’ll make me sound old, but some of this debut platter by Oakland’s Impediments sounds like one of those late glitter-era/proto-punk platters (e.g., New York Dolls, Dictators) while the rest of it sounds like the class of 1977 (not that it’s a bad thing [...]

BBC – Across The Line – Golden Animals

Electric Picnic 09 – Golden Animals
Looking like a mixture of Captain Caveman and Francois Hardy, Golden Animals are an unusual proposition. Pounding out primal garage rock, they shatter the serenity of the normally blissed out Body and Soul area, and more than likely melt a few heads.
Howling from beyond hell, jagged guitars pummel the audience [...]

AM New York digs Impediments debut

AM New York
Impediments
AbsolutePunk – Free Music Friday

Please Throw Me Back in the Ocean – All Music Guide

Review by Mark Deming
For someone who is presumably a member of the nobility, Sir Lord Von Raven sure doesn’t seem very attuned to social niceties. A quick spin of his first album, Please Throw Me Back in the Ocean, suggests he’s loud and boisterous in public, he speaks with impropriety about the fair sex, and [...]

Robert Christgau – Dean of American Rock Critics

This Just In:  And if you know HappyParts – you know he’s pacing the floor.
Consumer Guide (June 2009)
New Consumer Guide for June 2009. Featured albums:

African Pearls: Senegal 70: Musical Effervescence (Syllart) [A-]
Leonard Cohen: Live in London (Columbia) [A]
Doom: Born Like This (Lex) [A-]
Bob Dylan: Together Through Life (Columbia) [B+]
Béla Fleck: Throw Down Your Heart (Rounder) [...]