Joey Siara

October 14, 2004

Interpol | Antics | Matador

By Joey Siara

The bassist from Interpol dresses like a fascist and wears a gun holster on stage. Bad. The bassist writes inspired bass lines that make the bass guitar more than just an instrument for rejected guitarists. Good.

June 3, 2004

Shrek 2 | Pretty Things in Ugly Packages

By Joey Siara

I like ugly things. There exists an underlying beauty in all things repulsive, a magnetic force tapping into an unconscious wasteland of perversion, a force that explains why humans like to smell their farts and pick the...

April 22, 2004

Bright Eyes/Nena Dinova | One Jug of Wine, Two Vessels | Crank

By Joey Siara

Everything that I feared prior to listening to this six song EP came true. I accuse Crank Records of exploiting the celebrity status of Bright Eyes to push their "Coldplay from Omaha" act, Nena Dinova, on an unwilling au...

November 20, 2003

The Beatles | Let It Be…Naked | Apple

By Joey Siara

I was thoroughly prepared to bash this album. So, Sir Paul McCartney, who the heck do you think you are? I'm terribly sorry that you're unhappy with the original album. Deal with it.

October 30, 2003

Grandpaboy | Dead Man Shake | Fat Possum

By Joey Siara

So it's 1959, and I'm in this tired old blues bar in Mississippi. A sickly looking gent stumbles onto the stage nearly spilling his drink on his telecaster. He slurs into the microphone, "I'm Paul Westerberg I mean Gran...

October 16, 2003

Travis | 12 Memories | Epic

By Joey Siara

Here's a story children: One day, Travis, a band of sensitive Scot rockers, thought, "Hey, let's write pretty songs like Radiohead used to and get famous!" And so they did. And everyone loved them and sang, "Why does it ...