Dreams

Cool Club and the Lipker Sisters Dancing Into Your Dreams (CD Baby) One of the recurring pleasures I’ve experienced over the past few years has been attending concerts by Cool Club and the Lipker Sisters. It’s always fun, always energetic, always a tremendous display of musical talent – I catch them whenever I can and, luckily, they play locally often. So I eagerly awaited their new album, Dancing Into Your Dreams, which was released on September 4 and, for the...

A deeper look at the grooves pressed into the Dreams From The Factory Floor LP by Louise Distras. The problem with a lot of what is earnestly being marketed as punk rock in the twenty-first century is that much of it is fundamentally flawed: it’s made the way it is because that’s what’s expected.The expectation is that punk songs will come equipped with a confrontational attitude stacked on top of a progression of between three and five chords, and somewhere...