Jack White’s Ego to Release Solo Album
After several years of notable collaboration, Jack White’s Ego announced he is splitting with his mentor in favor of making his own music.
Sir Paul McCartney Pees on Kurt Cobain Legacy in Nirvana Reunion
New York, NY: Sir Paul McCartney released the rumor that he would be playing with the surviving members of grunge rock group Nirvana hours before the Hurricane Sandy Relief concert…
Not An Airplane: It Could Just Be This Place(or time) Review
Reviewing music can be a tedious job. To create one, you have to take into account your interpretation of what the artist hoped to accomplish and meld it with how…
Shared Progress: A Review of “Late Bloomer” by The Northstar Session
The Inept Owl has been lucky enough to have a few artists in multiple fields come back again and again with new albums, ideas, and visions. It has the feel…
Performance, Feedback, Revision: Rap Artist Baba Brinkman Hits NYC
Rap as an art form has continually evolved. From its tribal, beat-based story-telling syncopation around a fire to its modern, beat-based story-telling syncopation in 50,000 capacity sports arenas, rap has…
The Northstar Session: Winter Collection Review
The Northstar Session is a quartet hailing from California. The four-piece features Matthew Szlachetka on guitar and vocals, Kane McGee on drums and vocals, Shiben Bhattacharya on bass, and Dave…
Review of Not An Airplane: Things and People
Not An Airplane has been here at The Inept Owl for longer than I have. Each time they've had a record release, a new writer would take up the review.…
Music Review: LodemidiQuail
Do the words Boards of Canada, Negativland, and Mr. Bungle mean more than gibberish to you? If the answer is yes, you should definitely check out LodemidiQuail, an electronica soundscaper…
You Don’t Know What Love Is
I love the White Stripes. This is a declaration that seems sort of silly in 2008. Why take the time to write about your love of a band that has…
Review of The Northstar Session’s New Prehistoric Times
The term “rock” entails something that’s hard. Hard is something that these guys aren’t. I wouldn’t throw them to the other side of the spectrum either, though, as a soft…