Best shows in Atlanta December 1 - 7: Monday: The Rosebuds, The Love Language, The Preakness @ The Earl Tuesday: The Subliminator, Adrien Barbobott, Jesse Langdale, Unit Shifters, Self Inflict, Khovicoobah (NOIZE) @ Lenny's Bar Wednesday: No Face, Genital Sherman, Fashion Knee High @ Drunken Unicorn Thursday: Untied [...]
Sean Kirkpatrick tickling away. (Kris Youmans) So, it's kind of a slow blog day, and this is kinda old news, but what the hell... We're always down for a little Sean Kirkpatrick around these parts. ... Continue reading "Download Sean Kirkpatrick's Polvo Covers EP For Free" >
Hey, apparently there's a cure for GRID HIV now ! The Wall Street Journal is reporting that a brilliant doctor from Germany performed a bone marrow transplant on an HIV patient using marrow from a naturally immune donor. Since white blood cells are derived from bone marrow, the HIV-resistent bone marrow produced HIV-resistent WBCs with the CCR5 mutation that prevents HIV from binding to white blood cells, and all traces of the virus disappeared from the patient's bloodstream. Since the transplant, doctors have not detected any signs of the virus for 600 days. [...]
Chapel Hill, NC Polvo are considered to be one of the key bands in so-called "math rock" genre, even though the band themselves rejected this label in interviews. Their name comes from Spanish word for "dust" (and it also means "sex" in Spanish slang). Formed in 1990, the initial line-up consisted of Ash Bowie, Dave Brilawski, [...]

Today I have a wee mix of things you probably should be listening to... Downloadables: "Boxes" (box.net mp3) by The Lake Situation "Parasites" (box.net mp3) by The Muslims "Maniverse (Live On WOXY)" (box.net mp3) by Royal Bangs "Beach Demon" (box.net mp3) by Wavves "Change The Beat" (box.net mp3) by Low Scores "Run To The Facts (Brad Shi Shitty Emo Ending Mix)" (box.net mp3) by [...]
So I totally failed at the My Bloody Valentine tracks because I completely forgot to get the mp3 recorder from the car before I left for the show - sorry. Hey did that show piss off anyone else? I was so irritated by the fact that all I could hear was snare drum and feedback [...]

Today, part two of our ongoing (belated) coverage of the All Tomorrow's Parties festival, which was held in upstate New York this past weekend. Today, Ian discusses the events of Saturday, September 20th. He has provided all applicable photographs, and I have scourged the Internet far and wide to bring you these recordings from throughout the day. I even listened to some of it live on Saturday. Speaking of which, If anyone comes across A Silver Mt. Zion's set, I've been looking for it. They sounded beautiful! Take it away, Ian... ...When I first saw the schedule posted [...]
I promise I'm only going to do one more on ATP after this. That will be an entry with pictures from day three. But now - now, I'm going to tell my tale. Not exactly the Bard's tale, but a tale. It seems like I left home a lifetime ago. September 18th, 1914 or something. I don't know. A really long time ago. The flight, but more importantly the screening process, was trivial and uneventful. I did sit in the same row as an old dude who kept asking bizarre questions of the somewhat elderly flight attendant. [...]

(HI MOM) Steve Albini spoke about half the title there. Well, I mean, all of it but the "All Tomorrow's Parties: Day 23 bit. Shellac was insanely awesome. Les Savy Fav, wow, that was crazy trippy. In a good way, though. Polvo was very neat. I have a lot of pictures to sort through right now, but I'm going to try and upload them before I go to bed. Tomorrow, I'm planning on seeing: Yo La Tengo, Mogwai, Dinosaur Jr., then leave towards the end to catch the Brian Jonestown Massacre and, assuming Anton doesn't kill everyone, of [...]

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90's guitar godhead group Polvo has reunited for the upcoming All Tomorrow's Parties festival, curated this year by the similarly reunited My Bloody Valentine . Part of their warm-up tour took them to our neck of the woods and we were blessed with a face-melting performance. Playlist: Polvo Setlist, 09.05.08 They even unveiled a new song, that not only fit in well with the set, but was pretty amazing in it's own right. A great sign that perhaps we'll see a [...]

Finally. After almost a decade, I was given the opportunity to see Polvo perform live. I can still remember the day Ian introduced me to Celebrate The New Dark Age , and how I immediately fell in love with it. More so than My Bloody Valentine, more so than The Pixies, more so than any other "indie" band that has reformed in the past four or five years, the chance to see Polvo live actually interested me. Reformation/reunion announcements are a dime a dozen today, and usually I will glance over a news item or press release when I [...]

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I've got a couple of pairs of tickets to give away for the Polvo show this Sunday at the Echoplex. It's a strong bill with Trans Am and the Drones opening the show. To win the tickets email me [dukeufo at gmail] with the name of your favorite Mexican restaurant. The contest closes Friday at Noon. A good friend of mine turned me on to Polvo early in college. I remember [...]

Polvo Appear at the Echoplex on 8/31/08 David Byrne doing the songs of David Byrne & Brian Eno @ Greek Theatre on 10/3/08 (Greek presale now, regular sale Sunday at 10:00 AM) LA Weekly Detour Festival: The Mars Volta / Gogol Boredello / Shiny Toy Guns / The Presets / Cut Copy / Matt Costa / Black Lips / Hercules & Love Affair / Grande Ole Party / Datarock / Bitter: Sweet / Peanut Butter Wolf / Buraka Som Sistema / Nico Vega / Japanese Motors / The [...]
After over 10 years of inactivity, Polvo is back!

Polvo , one of my favorite noise/math rock bands of the 90s, recently reformed. They're playing a show in Chicago tonight, and based on the YouTube clips of recent shows that are circulating, it will be amazing. (Sidenote to Chicago readers: Anyone who doesn't have tickets to the Polvo show is required, by default, to go see the equally awesome Tittsworth do it up at Smart Bar . Chicago's main man Willy Joy will also be doing a set. And actually, the mandate goes for anyone with earlier engagements [...]

Todd Totale finally gets his chance to shake down an actual member of Polvo for that $20 they owe him. Meanwhile, the band plays Chicago for the first time in over a decade on July 25 and 26.