Apologies for the fact that you can hear Thing 2 doing chores in the background of pretty much every bit of back-announce on this week's podcast. He was terribly late coming home the other night, and it's easier to punish him with laundry and sweeping than it is to let ...

Chris Daly once dressed up as Falcor for Easter. FALCONS are a weird bird, to say the least. Whereas many of their contemporaries look to myriad sources for inspiration, I believe the Vancouver/ Oakland-based duo of TightMike and KayleoStocko is possibly one of the fww to adhere to the tenants of the world weary Bud Searcy, who admonished his daughter to only pick those "ears what is sweet and juicy." Clearly, this mentality drives the beat selection on their latest, Indian Summer . Confused? Go rent Old [...]
I've had to revise my opinion of Bombay Bicycle Club in the last few weeks (otherwise known in these parts as " Doing a Jack Penate "). For many years, on the few occasions I've deigned to think about them, I had them pegged as basic landfill indie. And yet, somehow (like The Horrors), they've produced a third album that's a quantum leap for them in terms of quality and ambition. The video for their new single Shuffle , looks a little bit like outtakes from The Inbetweeners (great film that, BTW), and does little to [...]

Audiversity's weekly column on music we stumble across during our sonic adventures. No random numbers, just straight audio goodness. PM: I haven't been doing much reading around the Internet lately, so I have no idea what the cool kids are listening to. I just know that Spaniard Ilya Santana has produced a hell of a space-disco slab on his EP Arcanus which came out in May on Ukrainian(?!) label Manuscript . Perhaps best known for a Human League remix of "The [...]
Here is part 2 of the revised and reexamined Buckets Full of Emo series (you can find part 1 here ). This one covers (roughly) 1994 and 1995 and reminds me of a funny conversation I had with my brother this past Friday evening that went something like this: Brother: Okay. There is this great band that you need to hear. Me: Who? Brother: Why do you post garbage? You should only write about good music. Me: Who is this band? Brother: Texas Is The Reason. Me: [...]
After the overwhelming response to my last history of emo post, I thought I'd dig through my records and find a few more gems that I'd overlooked the first time. Here's another dozen. MP3 | Lincoln - Bench Warmer MP3 | Compound Red - Sticks MP3 | Indian Summer - Truman MP3 | [...]