Turn that frown upside down - Vince will be back on Monday! 'Til then, here's a list of all the fun things we did this week: We debuted the new Czar video. We spoke to Kelly Shaefer from Atheist and Jenks Miller from Horseback. Also, Steve Rennie and Ben Davis from Today I Caught the Plague [...]
Hopefully Chicago trio Czar has been on your radar for some time now, but if not here's your chance to get down with one of the best new bands in quite some time. I included their excellent full-length debut Vertical Mass Grave (fabulously recorded by Matt Talbott, guitarist/vocalist of Hum) on my year-end list for [...]
via Badass Digest Dj Slashba - noun - 1. A temp. 2. A fill-in, placeholder. 3. A pretender to the throne. 4. Someone who keeps an unlit cigarette dangling from lips. 5. A retard. Props to our friend Nick for teaching us a new term. Here's some shit we did this week: We got a tour [...]
The cover art to Czar's debut album, Vertical Mass Grave, is some kind of fucked-up metal tribute to Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey... and that's somehow very fitting for the music contained therein. Combining lots of disparate elements into one powerful, anthemic package, Czar are one of those bands who could build a bridge [...]
Summer weekends are an excellent time to move around and rub flailing body parts upon others. And what better sounds are there than the sounds of funk to induce such a mood? This weekend -- toni... Continue reading "Q&A with DJ MAKossa about Funk Donuts, tonight at Czar" >
Here is a transcript from the review I recorded for Tuesday nights Matt & Kim , The Thermals and DJ Autobot concert at the Czar Bar in Ybor . It was around mile three of a six mile run. Pre-Concert Meal: If you live in Tampa, you've probably seen billboards for the Acropolis . They dot I-4, 75 and 275. We've been going here for as long as I can remember. It isn't the "Opa!" or belly [...]
Sara Swenson has had a heck of a year so far. In February, the songstress was a part of Kansas City's annual Love Hangover. In May, she performed at and helped organize the first annual Stee... Continue reading "Sara Swenson talks the Camp Encourage Benefit at Czar tonight " >
You know the worry you feel after you discover your favorite bar has changed management? You try and convince yourself there's no way the new bar manager could muss the sanctity of "your bar," ... Continue reading "Czar ba...I mean, Czar management change means positive spruce for downtown bar" >
I only have two songs by these guys and they're fucking tight. If you like the band Polvo or Built to Spill you will enjoy the only two songs I have to offer. I tried getting in contact with these guys a couple of years ago through myspace and I'm still waiting for a copy of their release. I don't know what's taking so long, they're from Santa Cruz. There are two more songs on their myspace but ever since it became the new digital ghetto shit's gone wack. SurfstruMental [...]
On tour in support of his solo album, Better by Design, John Lefler (guitarist and keyboardist for emo mainstay Dashboard Confessional) will roll through Kansas City early next month. Though to ... Continue reading "Dashboard Confessional guitarist John Lefler rocks Czar Bar" >
Bad Braids is a very intimate project, clearly intended to showcase the beautiful talents of Megan Biscieglia. Her talents as a guitarist, vocalist, and lyricist are on full display throughout Arrow and Orb, a fascinating and ingenious release that mixes gypsy-folk, psychedelia, and country-rock with awe-inspiring results. Biscieglia's voice has a sort of twang often [...]
Alright. So all of yesterday's entries from Vegas pretty much blew goats, and not only did the Peoria-area reader known as "chainchomp" leave a comment reassuring me that I was being punished, but he also admitted that not every band listed in his e-mail recommendation was good - but they all "get alot of hype [...]
Alright. So all of yesterday's entries from Vegas pretty much blew goats, and not only did the Peoria-area reader known as "chainchomp" leave a comment reassuring me that I was being punished, but he also admitted that not every band listed in his e-mail recommendation was good - but they all "get alot of hype [...]
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John Grant 's Queen Of Denmark album is a slow-burning beauty of a record. It'll appear on every hipster's Best Of 2010 list, yet I doubt it did so much as graze the outer reaches of the stalest charts since I don't know when. All the hippest of hipsters like to keep these things to themselves, y'see, so they can say " told you so " when the time is perceived to be right. Queen Of Denmark is melancholic, melodic, Midlake-mentored and as richly produced as anything from the Golden Year of [...]
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I may only have lived in the Wiltshire village of Seend for about four or five months about ten years ago (seriously, ten?) but the fact that I had no job, nor was able to find one, meant that the music I listened to ended up with an extra resonance. Apart from looking for jobs I didn't know how to find, I spent an inordinate amount of time browsing through copies of Uncut magazine, back before it turned to shit, and buying albums based on how well I liked the songs they chose for their covermount CDs. [...]
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Concrete Blonde Happy Blackhawks day, Chicago! We did it! After 49 long years, Lord Stanley's Cup returns to the windy city! If you're not already hammered at downtown celebration, there's plenty of great music this weekend to keep the party going including Concrete Blonde at the Vic , YAWN at the Hideout , The Futureheads at Lincoln Hall , Metronome Celebration , Earth Program and at Bottom Lounge and so much more. Let's get to it, shall [...]
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