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HomeFront: Kate Winslet in uniform, Mark Sandmanâs âsecret band,â plus a rising quilt star
By Marie Morris Globe Correspondent,Updated April 15, 2021, 3:36 p.m.
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Welcome back to HomeFront, where the doors that have been slightly ajar are flying open to let normal life back in. If youâre not at least partly vaccinated, you probably know someone who is, and maybe youâve had a meal on a patio. You might even have received an e-mail about reopening procedures at a place you used to go all the time. We canât shake the feeling that became our constant companion early in the stay-at-home period: that itâs safer on the couch than out in the world. Luckily we have plenty of company, virtually if not physically. And almost everyone needs something to watch or listen to. The Globeâs experts have plenty of suggestions.
Modern Rock in Motion reviews The Red Step, Sunburned Hand of the Man, Josh Caterer, Hypnosonics and Junk Ranchers
Old faces turn up in strange and different places in this edition of Modern Rock in Motion.
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By Peter Lindblad
Old faces turn up in strange and different places in this edition of Modern Rock in Motion. It appears that The Black Heart Procession’s Tobias Nathaniel has opened a separate branch in Serbia with The Red Step, while the Smoking Popes’ Josh Caterer visited The Hideout in Chicago to amplify songs of his grandparents’ generation with a whole new band and never-before-released records from a beloved side project of Morphine’s Mark Sandman finally see the light of day. Sunburned Hand of the Man pushes the boundaries of New Weird America in a heady, thrill-seeking masterpiece, and the Junk Ranchers’ sparkling debut LP arrives about 34 years late. Let’s dig in.
The Sopranos when he heard Morphine’s song “Buena,” from the trio’s 1993 album
Cure for Pain.
Ortega, who was 28 years old at the time, had never heard the band before, but took a deep dive into Morphine’s music. He was particularly drawn to frontman Mark Sandman’s two-string slide bass, and became so obsessed that he had local luthier Scott Lofquist build him two basses, one of which is a left-hand replica of the instrument played by Sandman, who died from a heart attack during a concert in Italy in 1999.
When Ortega, who plays in a duo called the Two-String Project, heard about ArtHyve’s Record to Record, a series of online panel discussions via Zoom that combine the intellectual atmosphere of a book club with the world of music, he asked the group s founders, Jessie de la Cruz and Sigri Strand, who Ortega says are huge Morphine fans, about doing a discussion on the album as part of the series.