PETER BESTE - "Houston Rap" BookPeter Beste Houston Rap Book (Sinecure, 2013 2020) SECOND EDITION. Includes 32 new pages of never before seen photos and text, Northside Southside Houston maps, and a complete index of thetimeline and oral history of the scene. "Houston Rap is the second offering from Sinecure Books, after their debut Enjoy the Experience: Homemade Records 1958 1992. Hardcover, 272 pages, 130 gram matte photo paper, features color photography, oral histories, and a

by the end of the album what’s left is a question: what exactly is this album

Lou Reed calls it his “Billie Holiday impersonation

let alone one as good as Untitled (Black Is)

The b side is a single dense and lusty piano/violin epic ("Real Green") that's a lunatic version of Shirley Collins and goes from jaunty to wistful to spiteful and culminates in "Sloth"-ish folk rock triumph

” a portrait of blues singer Howlin’ Wolf from 1965

Recorded with just a laptop

LIMES - Tarantula LP (Goner

The duo of Marion Molle and Ronan Riou revisits french lo-fi synth pop in a fairytale-like way

The amps are still on fire

the song's halting acoustic rhythm and lyrical images of hiding from a dissolving relationship behind a Chinese screen are painfully honest and beautiful

Stoner-Shred

some vocal accents (”Second Ending #3″)