Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News In their second-to-last SXSW show (of seven) Voxhaul Broadcast spiraled through a brief set at the PureVolume House. With no time to waste, the Orange County, Calif. quartet filled the next 25 minutes with six songs, mostly from their debut -- 'Timing is Everything' -- even sharing one story about a bad trip that inspired a great song. Just two days earlier at the band's Filter magazine showcase, singer David Dennis, whose semblance to the later singer Jeff Buckley up [...]
so i've been imbibing this satanic cypriot (you know, from cyprus…) liqueur all weekend. a bastard concoction somewhere between sherry and rum. some sugary minbender that rots yr brain and skews yr teeth. either way not only have my lips been numb for thirty six hours but i keep seeing shapes leaking like bitched ink [...]

Charlie Ashcroft's Low Slung Radio Episode 15 of the never knowingly under indied Low Slung Podcast has arrived, with six slices of quality tune pie. The show features the glorious return of the Jam meets the Enemy blast of Moving Targets (not to be confused with their US counterparts Moving Targets or Moving Targets ) first featured on Episode 10 of the podcast. Not content with bringing more Moving Targets [...]

"It is as though London stretched unbroken from St Albans to Southend in a tangle of ten-lane four-deck super parkways, hamburger stands, banks, topless drug-stores, hippie hide-outs, Hiltons, drive-in mortuaries, temples of obscure and extraordinary religions, sinless joy and joyless sin, restaurants built to resemble bowler hats, insurance offices built to resemble Babylon, all shrouded below the famous blanket of acrid and corroding smog." Ah, Los Angeles: huge both in population and square footage, unseasonably warm even in January, and home to an awe-inspiring amount of taco trucks (pictured). I don't know about [...]

Just when it seemed things had cooled down to a comfortable post-midnight temperature, The Bad Trips fired off a batch of stage-melting psychedelic nightcaps to round out WFMU's SXSW showcase in Austin last Friday night. This Ventura, CA, instrumental outfit is the new project of Grady Runyan, formerly of mid-90s Bay Area psych-punk riffers Monoshock. Grady plays electric/ebow/delay guitar backed by Jeff Grimes on guitar/bass, Gordon Roberts on bass/viola, and drummer Bob Anderson. The Bad Trips: Full Set from WFMU showcase at Spiro's in Austin, TX (MP3 ) [...]
Wooden Shjips Tonights reflections on the year just passed is an interesting and exclectic mix from those dyslexic psychedlians Wooden Shjips... Best 0f 2007 (in no particular order) Sapat - Dark Silver [...]