Gail has posted the latest issue of Chickfactor online. If you are not familiar with Chickfactor well then I don't particularly know where to start but, safe to say you should get familiar. If you like relatively obscure artists writing about other relatively obscure artists or want to know what the indie guys and gals think is shit hot at the moment then Chickfactor is the place. Gail is super cool and you'd be lucky to know her.
Anyway, this online issue (the internet is the zine of the naughts so don't sweat it) features a boat-load of music reviews from Daniel Handler. Mr. Handler had K. and I rolling when we saw him here interviewing Mr. Eggers. Here is a sampling of the lines that I appreciated:
- "if you like your ambient music busy and nonelectronic—that is, if you don't like ambient music—you might like this."
- "oh ms. lennox, dear me, dear me, dear me."
- "even gloomy mr. snicket wishes that the divine comedy would slap these chaps across the face with a velvet glove, drag them over to the stereo and play them some otis redding."
It is hard to do the funniest reviews justice with just a small quote but, you get the idea. I haven't enjoyed a guest contributor (let's hope he does more) so much since Stephin Merritt's one line review of the horrible 90's band S*M*A*S*H: "S*H*I*T sandwich.". Priceless.