SOUNDTRACK: PETER WOLF CRIER-Tiny Desk Concert #74 (August 17, 2010).
When I saw the name of this band, I assumed it was Peter Wolf, the former lead singer of the J. Giels Band. But indeed it is not (confusing much?). Rather, it is a singer named Peter Paisano and his drummer Brian Moen.
They play three songs. Paisano has a good voice. But to me the highlight of this show is the drums. Moen uses this really heavy-looking set of “brushes” that bring a deep resonance to his drums.
“Untitled 101” is short (all the songs are short with no guitar solos). I like the breakdown when it’s just the drums. “Saturday Night” he dedicates specifically to Bob Boilen. It is a bit more dramatic in delivery. The end has some nice hummed parts, but I find the sounds that Peter makes to be unsettling (more of a grunt than a hum), especially compared to the normal hums of Moen. “Crutch & Cane” has a bit more of that unusual pronunciation, which I think I find more upsetting than interesting.
This was a short set, but I’m not likely to track down more from them.
[READ: May 26, 2015] Sensation Comics featuring Wonder Woman
I was never a big fan of Wonder Woman when I was growing up (I was a boy after all). I never watched the show, really. As it turns out, I had no idea about Wonder Woman’s origin story, which is totally fascinating (I also don’t know if it was ever introduced in the TV show). Turns out that Wonder Woman’s real name is Diana. She was a Princess on the Amazonian island of Paradise. An island where only women lived. And, most interestingly, she was made from clay when her mother could not bear a child of her own. Whoa!
So this book is a collection of short stories by different artists with very different styles. (more…)
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