Wednesday, February 22, 2012
This is a singers album. Not a songwriters album(though there is a good bit of that), not a folk rock album (though she still keeps it real), not an “indie” pop album (though I can’t help myself from singing the songs on the train). Where as Sharon Van Etten’s pervious albums/eps have showcased her impressive [...]
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Sometimes you will feel like indulging in a Michael Bay adventure other days to keep up some culture maybe you’ll pop in Fellini’s 8 1/2 . Dear Esther by thechineseroom is like an art house film in game form. Chances are a good amount of the audience will walk out annoyed and some will walk [...]
Saturday, February 11, 2012
It’s finally happened! Alex has gained access to Adam and Tigs’ fortress of solitude and man does it smell funky in here. Now without further ado here is my Shortwave premiere, a review of To The Moon for PC! Thanks Adam and Tigs. If you saw me when I was done playing To The [...]
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
In 2011, two punk albums with similar philosophies, created on different contintents, came out. The first was lauded as one of the greatest best punk albums of modern post-post-punk times and all-around praised for breathing life into a genre (only assholes think) thought to be dead. That album was also included on many best of [...]
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Tagged denmark, heavy times, hozac, hozac records, ice age, jacker, joy division, new brigade, punk, reviews, what's your rupture?
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Mission of Burma at Music Hall of Williamsburg January 19, 2012 It’s time to stop calling Mission of Burma an influential band, as Bowery Presents offered up before the show via Twitter: “If you don’t already know why Mission of Burma is such an influential band, find out tonight at @MusicHallofWB.” Of course they are influential, [...]
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Tagged bob weston, bowery presents, clint conley, geezers, impose magazine, mission of burma, music hall of williamsburg, obliterati, onoffon, peter prescott, punk, review, roger miller, the sound the speed the light
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Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Best album of the year: Hyphenated Man by Mike Watt I think I knighted this album the best album of the year LAST year, but fuck, it’s so good I’m doing it again. I did have it in December 2010, the Jap version, but the righteous release came out in 2011 and man it sounds [...]
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Tagged 13 chambers, arabia mountain, black lios, Chartreuse Bull, cymbals eat guitars, dos, dos y dos, firehose, fugazi, hyphenated man, jeff the brotherhood, lenses alien, let england shake, mike watt, minutemen, murder the mountains, pj harvey, red fang, screaming females, vaz, we are the champions, wu-tang, wugazi
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Best album of the year by a member of Sleater Kinney: Wild Flag by Wild Flag Corin Tucker won this last year, so Wild Flag had to win it this year. In all seriousness, both those records kill and for very different reasons. Wild Flag is loud and fun and probably the record I danced [...]
It’s a puritan nation, baby. And yet, there was still some good, weird, unorthodox music made last year. I realize its January 3, a few baby steps into the last year of existence, 2012, but I have to finish off all the Old Yellers from last year before I move into this one. Best song [...]
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Gnarwhal – Duane This is music for the Two Thousand Teens. Frantic, disturbed, paranoid, unsettling punk played by four dudes from Nashville, Tennessee. The album is exhausting. To make it worse, or better really, it fills your head with questions. How does he play guitar like that? How do these guys play this stuff live? [...]
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Feel like I’ve listened to this album for years, and I haven’t even listened to Wilco for years. Weird sounds inhabit this album. Layers upon layers of abnormal stuff. In desperation, I have pointed to the Beach Boys as an example of a band able to pull off the impossible task of playing catchy songs [...]
