Imagine you are the financial controller of a multi-million pound corporation. You discover that your new boss might have forged tax invoices for payments that were never made. What do you do? I'd like to think I'd call the cops. But if you're Ken Olverman, the man in charge of counting the diminished pile of [...]
In 1996, Madeline Albright, then Bill Clinton's Secretary of State, was asked if she thought the death of half a million Iraqi children due to United Nation sanctions was a price worth paying in the cold war against Saddam Hussein. Her answer, amid much humming and ha'ing, was basically: "Yes". Albright later castigated herself for [...]
"The butterfly effect" is a classic illustration of chaos theory: an insect flapping its wings in Macau can, weeks later, cause a hurricane in Miami. The point is that in a complex system, a seemingly insignificant act can cause a major change at a faraway time and place. I think the butterfly effect helps explain [...]
There's only one story in Scottish football at the moment, and it isn't the aftermath of the Slovenia v Scotland friendly last week (decent performance, nothing to write home about). So I make no apologies for writing about Rangers again. The club has been in administration for almost a month now, and still speculation outweighs [...]
Joe Knight, our beloved San Francisco via Texas resident whose artistic output we've come to know and cherish as Rangers , has produced a vast amount of incredible music in recent years that was not always put out at all or at least not published under his principal recording moniker. Perhaps in order to reminisce and reposition, Knight has now decided to post some of that material on his new Soundcloud , which sports his given name in order to avoid any confusion. However, while this might not be "official" Rangers music, the ten pretty amazing [...]
Rangers - "Glass Facade" As the all-seeing eyes over at Tiny Mix Tapes spotted earlier today, suburban tour-guide and retro pop-smith Rangers has a new track—"Glass Facade"—up on the Brunch Groupe SoundCloud page . Could this be teasing a new tape? Only time will tell. Until we find out, we've got another 5 minutes of sparkling AM gold from the reigning king. The stellar 2XLP Pan Am Stories is [...]
"I will admit there have been times when I have wished that I had never entertained the idea of taking over Rangers," you said in a public statement on Wednesday. There are times when I wish the same: from the time I wake up until the time I go to sleep. A few weeks ago [...]
"I'm all out of love, what am I without you?" – Air Supply Hong Kong can't live without Air Supply. Aging Aussie soft rock crooners Graham Russell and Russell Hitchcock retain astonishing popularity in the city. Their most famous dirge frequently pollutes the public airwaves, and decades after their 1980's heyday they regularly sell out [...]
You need a degree in accountancy to be a Rangers fan these days. On Tuesday, the Daily Record broke the story that Rangers' owner Craig Whyte sold four years' worth of Rangers season ticket sales to fund his takeover of the Govan club. Later that same day, Whyte released a statement admitting the deal happened [...]
[video by Benjamin Shearn . Rangers' Pan Am Stories is out now on Not Not Fun ]
Nashville based four-piece RANGER are making plans to record their newest material and are looking for a hand over at their 'iloveranger' Kickstarter site. This will directly help to fund the forthcoming EP over the next two months via pre-sales and exclusive offers. Following the excellent track featured a year ago ' Doormats ', and then today's beautiful piece, you just know the band is going to put out a stunning release as the cogs in the machine start to spin faster over the next few months. To help them in their new [...]
Undoubtedly, Rangers suffered at the hands – and wallets – of the English clubs, who set up raiding parties that would have been the envy of any 16th-century border reiver. First to go in 1880 was Scottish international Hugh McIntyre, older brother of Tuck and a member of the Cup Final team of 1879, who quit for Blackburn Rovers after they bought him a pub in the town. He went on to win three FA Cup-winners' medals in successive seasons with his new side in 1884, 1885 and 1886. He was followed to the Lancashire club by founding father Peter [...]
There's a distinct sense of nostalgia permeating Rangers ' new disc for Not Not Fun, Pan Am Stories . The title evokes the jet-setting glamor of the '60s and '70s, or maybe the sense of escape through the clouds, and the psych-inflected, lo-fi bedroom pop works in the same vein of Ducktails and Dirty Beaches. There's something almost disco-tinged about what Joe Knight brings to the table as Rangers, a sound that fits the bucolic memory-leaning of the title. There's a strong sense of story-telling, "Zombies (Day)" warbling and crackling in its [...]
We still haven't fully grasped the whole gloriousness of Joe Knight aka Rangers ' magnificent LP Pan Am Stories , without any doubt one of our favorites of 2011 , but this guy is simply not willing to give us a break: Already working on no less than two new tapes that are scheduled for early next year via his and his pals' still pretty new imprint Brunch Groupe , he's additionally commenced to remix all (!) of his previous stuff, including the tunes off his stellar proper debut LP Suburban Tours , released last [...]
I almost killed the site. When I decided to take a week break from posting I didn't expect for such a long dark void to follow. I had become bored with posting mp3s on the site, I wanted to do something new but couldn't figure out what that would be. After a couple harsh words from blog contributor Jen Graciano, I soon realized how stupid it would have been to shut the site down. A few weeks later we had figured what direction we wanted to take the site and began the planning stages soon after. As [...]
Rangers - Zombies (Night) (by Thal ) One of the best albums I've listened this month, the sophomore by American chillwave one man show Rangers' Pan Am Stories on Not Not Fun is a must listen. "It's honestly surprising that a character as humble as Knight has assumed such lofty ambitions; just a year ago, he was taking listeners on intimate, night-time detours through American suburbia in the backseat of a hot-boxed car. With all of the acclaim his debut LP Suburban Tours received in the blogosphere as a set of abbreviated [...]
Rangers owner Craig Whyte banned the BBC from Ibrox because he said a documentary they produced was "muckracking". He should have banned them because it was just a pile of s**t. "Rangers: The Inside Story" was sensationalist and shoddy, a tangled mess of half facts and guilt-by-association. And it didn't answer the most important question: [...]
We're off to a good start, folks. Game two is tonight, and our continuing mission to scour Youtube for the most hilariously awful Rangers fan videos continues. Today, we bring you the unfortunat... Continue reading "Bush League Fan Songs: A Chipmunk And A Demon Express Their Rangers' Fandom" >
Though it wasn't his first release, last year's Suburban Tours was certainly Joe Knight's breakthrough. Over the course of that album's eleven tracks, Knight managed to refashion the free-form, guitar-driven psychedelia of his earliest cassettes in a more accessible pop context; the result was a lo-fi work with deeper aspirations that sought to encapsulate the cozy ennui of contemporary suburbia. His latest release is just as broad in scope as you'd imagine from a double-LP called Pan Am Stories . Rangers is no longer concerned with the banal familiarity of home; no, he wants to [...]
When Joe Knight's one-man-band project Rangers first came on to the scene with 2009's Low Cut Fades cassette, I was pretty sure something was wrong with the .zip I downloaded. The tracks sounded warped in from another dimension, like the funkiest 1980s supermarket soundtrack I ever heard dubbed from a melting tape deck. When I realized that what I was hearing was intentional, I was of course hooked. As the year went on, I realized that Rangers' hypnagogic aesthetic was fitting right in line with the budding chillwave movement, but there was something different at the [...]
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