Music: Japandroids: Post-Nothing
Casey McKinney02.27.10
Maybe some of you have been watching the Olympics? It’s in Vancouver? ends this weekend, right? If I were there (am still banned from Canada,…
A Boy Named Xiu
Mark Gluth02.27.10
Xiu Xiu’s first album, Knife Play, felt new, an eye opening reconfiguration of so many thoughts, desires, and influences that it sounded like music you’d heard before, the way a platypus looks like an otter. As their career has progressed over a multitude of releases and side projects they have both refined and expanded their sound and lyrical obsessions. Dear God I Hate Myself, their latest full length, is available now. Mark Gluth is the author of a new acclaimed novella, The Late Work of Margaret Kroftis, on Akashic’s Little House on The Bowery series.
Music: Davy Graham – Large As Life and Twice As Natural
Casey McKinney02.12.10
Okay for fans of Nick Drake, John Fahey and other alternately tuned guitar players – acoustic here, but it also applies to both the unplugged and…
Best of 2009, Musically Speaking
Mark Gluth12.29.09
Seems Limewire might have been a darling again in 2009, but If you could actually afford to buy any music this year, here are some of the best albums you might have grabbed up as suggested by Mark Gluth, resident of the PANW (Pacific Northwest as he explained to us) and author of the awesome new novella The Late Works of Margaret Kroftis. From Sunset Rubdown to Sunn O))) here we go…
Music: Wizard Smoke – free album
The Fanzine11.23.09
Heads up (or is it down?) fans of stoner metal – ok you like your stoner metal. Well I am telling you, and in case Andee at Aquarius Records SF…
The End of The Aughts (back to) The Beginning of the Aughts
Casey McKinney11.18.09
The Beginning of the Aughts, The End of The Aughts (director’s cut)
Notes from the Brink – Reintroducing The Love Language
Brian Howe11.14.09
Brian Howe gets a rather full scoop on a band that, while still on the rise, has already been pegged with a storied mystique and an expected sound. Call the eponymous The Love Language a debut of lo-fi heartbreak if you must, but frontman Stuart McLamb and company have whipped up music some say is as big as Big Star, as anthemic as Arcade Fire or as classic as a Guided by Voices gem, and LL brings it with a patchwork wall of sound that only makes one wonder what the next, perhaps more refined, Merge Records LP will bring. But no pressure folks, really…Yeah right.
Music: The Jesus Lizard Tour
Casey McKinney11.06.09
‘Ello Kiddies, in case you never saw this one 5 footish, screwy eyed, seemingly ever acid tripping, dangerously cowboy-booted Texan David Yow dive…
Music: Slayer: World Painted Red
Casey McKinney11.01.09
A voice in the wilderness Slayer is. Long time fans noted the creepy serendipity of the release date of God Hates Us ALL (September 11th, 2001). For…
