Center City Brass Quintet
Center City Brass Quintet

Though you may not have heard of him, Fred Thomas has an oeuvre that could fill up the room. He’s been compared to everybody from Stephen Merrit...

01. MP3: Hypnotic Brass Ensemble – War02. MP3: Hypnotic Brass Ensemble – SankofaAs a biologist, I think a lot about the future of mankind. For exampl...

Last year, Grouper released Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill, a record that was not only a personal breakthrough for Liz Harris, but arguably for the Ty...

After the limited release of several CD-Rs, cassettes, and 7-inches, this is City Center’s first proper full-length album. Fred Thomas, the architect ...

This new project from former Saturday Looks Good To Me honcho Fred Thomas takes more than a few moves from the Panda Bear playbook. This may sound alr...

Multi-instrumentalist and compulsive band-starter Fred Thomas has been involved in a veritable laundry list of projects over the course of his still-y...

I’m not that charitable with albums that don’t have any idea what they want to be. Jam a stake into my black heart, I know, because “albums aren’t mov...

With the latest Animal Collective collector fetish item creating an eBay frenzy reserved for things like the Google IPO, it?s safe to say that there?s...

Some are born to greatness, some have it thrust upon them. And sometime the two are one; just ask the seven or eight horn-wielding siblings who, with ...

Glastonbury, here they come. This youthful band from Chicago has won lots of converts with shows combining jazz, funk, gospel and a smidgen of hip-hop...