When a band comes rumbling out of nowhere with a sound that artfully evokes the past, it’s typical to wait for the eventual downfall the second time around. Conventional wisdom goes that you have a whole lifetime to write your first album and maybe a year for the second. The Love Language’s Libraries, however, is [...]
By the time of Attempted Mustache’s 1973 release Loudon Wainwright III had been kicking around for some time, releasing several critically acclaimed folk albums throughout the early 70s. One of Loudon’s finest efforts, the LP is a loose, low key, affair with brutally honest lyrics coupled with a few shambolic, drunken performances that are highly [...]
Any silence on my part per the recent reissue of the Stones Exile On Main Street has more to do with the fact that I’ve written about the album, and it’s contents, so much in the past that I have very little left to say on the subject (versus any implied lack of enthusiasm). In [...]
This is pre-destined to be your summer jam if you let it. Soaked in lethargic ennui, Conspiracy of Owls “Ancient Robots” milks 90s indie throwback in the very best way. Bobby from The Go’s new-ish project; look for the LP out on Burger Records soon. MP3: Conspiracy of Owls :: Ancient Robots ———————— + Download [...]
A highlight from the seminal Girls In The Garage compilation, the Beatle-ettes “Only Seventeen” kicks off a twenty track, all girl-group, mixtape I crafted out of sand, spirit gum and some driftwood awhile back (entitled, wink wink, Where The Boys Aren’t). I’ll most likely get around to cleaning it up and posting it on here [...]
There’s a rolling highland, green as it is unceasing, billowing like yeast in and out of a stand of sugar maple and yellow birch. The dense wood tapers to a thicket lining before a velvet grass thins it out. At the base of a quiet knoll, an indistinguishable one of many, sits a modest timber-frame [...]
No Jacket Required returns this Friday at the Grandstar in Chinatown with a triple bill of Wounded Lion, So many Wizards and Woah Hunx. Come hang. I’m the DJ that night with a stack ‘o new rekkids I’m looking forward to hearing over the PA. Bonus treats: there’s free Firefly Vodka from 8-10pm, so, you [...]
New Orleans, this Friday night Aquarium Drunakrd presents a double bill of labelmates Roadside Graves and Futurebirds at One Eyed Jacks on Toulouse St. in the quarter. If you read the blog of the regular then you’re well aware of my affection for both. Roadside are kicking off their North American tour and Futurebirds are [...]
The thing that makes John Carpenter’s music so easy to absorb is its ability to tap into more genres than you could ever imagine while still sounding like he’s a complete stranger to modern rock, pop and psych from the past five decades. I’m not sure how this happens, but the L.A. artist has an [...]
Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 26 (SIRIUS), and channel 43 (XM), can now be heard twice, every Friday – Noon EST with an encore broadcast at Midnight EST. SIRIUS 149: Jean Michel Bernard – Generique Stephane ++ Tune-Yards – Sunlight ++ No Age – It’s Oh So Quiet (Bjork) ++ Bonnie “Prince” [...]
