Last weekend was a big one for Their/They're/There. Not only did the new band featuring members of Into it. Over it., Loose Lips Sink Ships and Owen/Cap'n Jazz (Evan Weiss, Matthew Frank and Mike Kinsella, respectively) release their debut self-titled EP on Polyvinyl Records , but they also played their first show - a Record Store Day in-store performance at Permanent Records . And it's easy to see, or hear, why this young band packed the house at Permanent and why their the lead single from [...]
Hello world! Lets get two things straight - one, I'm neurotic as hell, and two, I devour music like a fat kid loves cake, and I love me some cake! Now that we have that out of the way… The lost art of the Mixtape. Remember when you would spend literally hours recording songs to those TDK tapes and trying your goddamned best to not cut the song off before it was actually over? Not only the recording part, but just sequencing the tapes was an art form too. Lest we forget dousing them with black ink penned [...]
Our very earliest associates and supporters may remember that the origins of The Cargo Culte lay in a collection of mixes that BaddBob and I began sharing in the late fall and winter of 2008. A few scant months after the banking meltdown I found myself back in Los Angeles after eight years of wandering, [...]
Forget who we are - Cap'n Jazz Download: 1-17-forget-who-we-are-live.mp 3 There was no band more in tune with my 16 year old self than Cap'n Jazz. I'm not sure that that is [...]
Stoked doesn't even touch the level of excitement I felt upon hearing that one of the greatest and most underrated artists, Tim Kinsella ( Cap'n Jazz , The Sky Corvair , Owls , Friend/Enemy , Everyoned , and Make Believe ), would be releasing a new Joan Of Arc album ( self-titled November 27th via Polyvinyl ). This video for " King Song " is the first taste of what is to come... it's delicious. Connect [...]
The reveal of Great Neck was treated with a slight air of secrecy. A few vague tweets left me (and likely many others) wondering what the hell this thing was all about. As things progressed we got a few scraps of information before finally becoming privy to the fact that Great Neck is a band. It turns out they’re pretty damn good too. Echoing the likes of Latterman, Joyce Manor and other bands of that ilk, Great Neck - a band comprised of Lonnie Dillinger, Derek Perry (Fake Problems), Casey Lee (ex-Fake Problems) and Jeb Barrows - have [...]
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Reuniting The Band By Julie Stoller The Promise Ring - Happiness Is All The Rage Famous for their confessional style of songwriting and signature pop sound, The Promise Ring would called it quits In 2002. To The Promise Ring's credit; four albums, which allowed them to amass underground [...]
"In their eyes I would be strange and ragged and like the prophet who has walked across the land to bring the dark word the only word I had was 'wow'." - Kerouac The greatest spectacle in music (I've heard they have movies too) has just wrapped up and for all it's brilliance and mind [...]
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Of all the bands full of talent, energy, and passion I was able to see at SXSW2012 Cloud Nothings' Warehouse set was the best I caught all week. I typically sleep through most hours of daylight and the last thing my body wanted to do after four straight days of steady PBR ingestion, food-truck meals, standing-drinking-sweating, wash-rinse-repeat was to once again make my way through the ridiculous Austin traffic that I avoid at all cost on most days, better yet with the circus of South-By in town, and look for [...]
Yeah, it might be pretty, um, snowy outside. But, like, there's some totally awesome shows going this weekend. We're talking Psych Fest at the Hideout, The Runnies at Ultra Lounge, Gaberdine at Subterranean and more! Let's go... FRIDAY THIRD EYE VISIONS: CHICAGO PSYCH FEST 3 The best of Chicago psych, kraut and rock that implements sonic elements that are on the fringe of the aforementioned [...]
[Video stills courtesy of Ian Perlman and Oresti Tsonopoulos ] Mike Kinsella has been involved in many a highly-regarded project over the years - in particular, the Illinois native still does time in Joan of Arc with his brother Tim (our recent recording of them [ HERE ]), and before that, he and Tim were in Cap'n Jazz (our recent recording of them [ HERE ]). The man's discography is longer than many artists twice his age - and most of it is quite good. The latest Kinsella project to receive positive [...]
Download: Fair Fjola - "Summer Song" If you are making a mixtape I dare you to find a better side-one track-one than "Summer Song!" I heard Fair Fjola's "No One Gets Any" for the first time early Monday morning and it's pretty much all I've listened to since. As a matter of fact it's so [...]
Owen - Ghost Town MMMM From his work with Cap’n Jazz to American Football, Mike Kinsella has always displayed a knack for being able to translate emotional weight through dizzying guitar riffs just as well as any singer ever could. As Owen, Kinsella has proven to be a master at arranging and layering, creating something soothing and accessible that still manages to be relatively complex and deep without losing a sense of purpose. Owen’s sixth full-length album, Ghost [...]
Rare Monk resemble a mix of Celtic punk, avant-garde rock in the vein of Man Man, and southern gypsy-pop complete with quick-moving strings and snarling vocals. For a more concise comparison, think Modest Mouse with an extra shot of caffeine
Several Chicago rockers are banding together at Lincoln Hall on Thursday, Sept. 1, for raise money for Girls Rock! Chicago . Mike Kinsella, of such revered emo groups Cap’n Jazz, Joan of Arc and Owen - just to name a few, will join Braid frontman Bob Nanna, Fall Out Boy’s Joe Trohman, Spitalfield’s Mark Rose, The Felix Culpa’s Dustin Currier and Weekend Nachos’ Drew Brown on stage to perform as 80s pop legends The Cure. This isn’t the first time Kinsella has assembled friends to cover a uber-popular 80s artist for a Girls [...]
Over the years, music evolves and changes in a lot of ways. Unless you're solely looking at mainstream music, its evolved pretty dramatically... particularly in the last 3 years. But every time I hear someone refer to a band as 'emo' it still pisses me off. Mostly because it never bears any resemblance to bands who were initially labeled 'emo' during a time when there was no description for it. You see, back in the mid-to-late 90s when all rock was 'alternative', distinctions had to be made when a particular group of bands had a general sound that stood apart [...]
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