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We are overrated – we humans, I think. While there is a propensity for kindness and love and the pleasant, gentle touches of friends, we are also noisy and hateful and we abuse each other and the land that breeds the means to our own good health and well being. Perhaps this is the reason behind only allowing a handful of folks into my life, as far as friendships are concerned. I have a hunger for closeness and platonic intimacy, obviously, as I have friends (new ones, even), yet seeing my own faults reflected in the actions of others is [...]
Photo Credit : Cary Whittier "Brooklyn trio Dead Stars is a sonic throwback to the ‘90s with a modern twist, blending elements of rock, pop, and grunge to create a large, resonant sound full of memorable hooks, melodic vocals, and plenty of guitar solos. Having been compared to iconic acts like Dinosaur Jr., Sonic Youth, and Pavement, the band has won over fans with their raucous live show. They’re gearing up to release their new EP, High Gain, June 4th via Uninhabitable Mansions, a label founded by fellow Brooklyn band Radical Dads". [...]
En 2011, la banda anunció una pausa en su camino, tras las separación de Gordon y Moore. Foto: Michael Schmelling El viernes 17 de mayo, Neil Bernstein , encargado de la publicidad de Matador Records publicó un mensaje en Twitter que decía " SNL Tomorrow". Lo que pudo haber sido simple emoción por el final de temporada de Saturday Night Live o fanatismo por el invitado musical, Kanye West , se volvió algo más complicado en cuanto la cuenta oficial de Sonic Youth amplificó el mensaje. [...]
In a new interview with Rolling Stone , Thurston Moore opened up about the future (or non-future) of Sonic Youth , his new outfit Chelsea Light Moving , and how he doesn't own a set of keys to anywhere in New York. As you can imagine, it was a very candid interview. On the potential of a Sonic Youth reunion: "I would never say I don't see why not. Life changes from time to time and who knows what will happen in the future. Your crystal [...]
R.E.M.'s major label debut, Green , was released on Election Day in 1988. It was a canny move from a political band, making their mark on the public consciousness on the very day the Reagan administration turned into the first Bush administration. The record also happened to be the band's entry into the big leagues, going from a small-town Southern band with a knack for jangle guitar and art-punk posturing into a world conquering behemoth that would become one of the most popular bands of the 902s. While the album itself is [...]
The advance publicity for the fourth official solo album by Sonic Youth member/author/art damaged polymath Thurston Moore offered a challenge: You may think you know where a Thurston record does or does not factor into your world, but remember, there are a lot of dimensions to this guy. Point taken. Listeners familiar with Moore’s previous solo efforts like 1995’s Psychic [...]
La vida en el mundo de la música no es nada fácil. Giras, excesos, largas noches de viaje y un completo desapego del mundo real. Si se trata de una banda joven y sin mayor preocupación que la vida de fiesta, no habrá problema, pero qué sucede si ya están un poco más grandes y sentaron raíces. ¿Cómo balancear la vida de rockstar con algo tan cotidiano como la vida en familia? Es algo extremadamente difícil y en muchas ocasiones hemos visto cómo termina mal, muy mal (véase Courtney Love ). Es por eso que hoy, en [...]
New bands rarely come on stronger than this. And with their debut LP Silence Yourself , the London post-punk quartet Savages show us that they’re not pussyfooting around. The band’s guitarist, Gemma Thompson, started developing the idea for the all-female group almost a year before it was formed, and if this album is anything to go by, the time and effort gone into the project has certainly not gone to waste. The album starts with an excerpt from John Cassavetes’s film Opening Night , with some [...]
[PHOTO: Matt Dressen for Clicky Clicky] Philadelphia noise-pop crew Bleeding Rainbow blasted through a bristling, low-fanfare set at Portland's Wonder Ballroom Friday, visiting town in support of its third record Yeah Right , which was released earlier this year on Kanine Records. Bleeding Rainbow has successfully moved beyond the more traditional pop approach of its past and in the direction of a more calculated guitar band, one evocative of a very specific point in alternative rock history. The strength of the band's more recent approach was on [...]
Sounds from nowhere. Music whispering like the breeze. Lazer guided melodies. Each week, an Ecuador based DJ who goes by the name Agte. Mulder puts together a podcast on Spreaker compiled of select shoegaze, dream pop, and drone sorts of music. Since I'm not too familiar with those genres myself, I asked Agte. Mulder if I could post his podcast here on The Record Stache. Thankfully, he agreed. The result is the Lazer Guided Melodies [...]
Robert Pollard is an indie rock legend. As the driving force behind the Dayton, Ohio group Guided by Voices , his output has not only been of exceptional quality, but exceptionally prolific. English Little League is the band's 20th studio album since their formation in ’83 – and making twenty LPs in that amount of time is no mean feat, especially if you discount their recent 6-year hiatus. They were most celebrated at the midpoint of the ‘90s, when they put out modern classics such as [...]
New York City has consistently been a hotbed of incredible art—whether that be music, theatre, visual works or film. But there's something specifically about the city that has always appealed to musicians, that has brought out the best in those who live here, and that has spurred some of the most successful rock bands over the last several decades. From the hardcore scene, to the emergence of punk rock, indie rock, shoegaze, folk-rock and so much more, New York bands are marked by their intermingled members, local influences and constant innovations. From labels, to venue spaces, to the records [...]
By Cat Schaupp April 30, 2013 Here at Muso's Guide, we got pretty stuck in to the build up for Record Store Day 2013 . In between vainly attempting to reduce our list of desired records from this year's releases down to a reasonable number, we got chattering away to record companies around the country about their involvement with the big day in the attempt to find out what life is like on the other side of the till. In addition to being a significant day for record stores wanting to increase their [...]
I'm about as sneery when it comes to Topshop as your average daydream disbeliever made to trudge the length and indeed breadth of the eternally tedious, smog-addled aorta of central London that is Oxford Street on any given Sunday. I was mercifully spared this weekend just gone, though I spent it instead getting faintly acquainted with an EP entitled Topshop from Brightonian trio Teardrop Factory . It's their début release on black wax, yet beyond the scratched veneer of a stereotypical lo-fi aesthetic resides a real knack for the fabricating of polychromic, '90s-inspired pop ditties which belies their newly [...]
Yes, the drone has infiltrated everything we love... - by Benjamin Bland
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Photos by Ethan Feuer Generationals teamed up with Splashh and Companion on Monday for a show that ran the gamut of musical styles - moving from soft, downtempo harmonics to the feverish guitar drones, playful pizzicato and wavering, breathless vocals that we all know and love. Companion was first onto the stage. Though the band hadn’t yet polished all the green from their silver, their sound was heartfelt and ambitious in a way that drew the crowd [...]
En una entrevista para la publicación Elle , Kim Gordon , exbajista de Sonic Youth , sorprendió con los detalles acerca de la ruptura en 2011 de su matrimonio de 27 años con el cantante Thurston Moore y su lucha contra el cáncer de mama. Según declaró en la nota, el cantante la engañó con otra artista, cuyo nombre no expuso, aunque dijo que fue novia de “un antiguo miembro [...]
Kim Gordon habla sobre su separación con Thurston Moore En una nueva entrevista con la revista Elle , Kim Gordon de Sonic Youth habló por primera vez acerca de su divorcio con Thurston Moore , y también reveló que ha estado luchando contra el cáncer de mama. Gordon y Moore pusieron fin a su matrimonio tras 27 años en octubre de 2011, y desde entonces Sonic Youth no ha pisado un sólo escenario. Como Gordon explicó a [...]
John Shearer The era of the touring festival has by and large given way to massive destination and regional festivals - it seemingly being easier to bring a bunch of bands and tens of thousands of fans to one place than it is to bring a bunch of bands to hundreds of thousands of fans in a bunch of places - but sometimes a touring bill is so impressive that it warrants a fancy name of its own. And the bill of Bob Dylan , Wilco , My Morning Jacket , and Richard Thompson [...]
As shared with Elle : "We never got to the point where we could just get rid of her so I could decide what I wanted to do," Gordon says. "Thurston was carrying on this whole double life with her. He was really like a lost soul." Moore moved out. Gordon stayed home and listened to a lot of hip-hop. "Rap music is really good when you’re traumatized," she says. -- Visit No Rock & Roll Fun to comment, complain and kvetch
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