Putting the punk into garage punk comes Portland's Cafeteria Dance Fever. Their new best-of collection, entitled Danceology, spans an LP, EP, and a fistful of singles on the Portland label Hovercraft. The whole compilation swings from shambolic pop on the Vaselines-on-Adderol "Ocular Evulsor," to the slam-bang of "Puke Overboard." Is it ...
Thomas F. Cohen's Playing to the Camera: Musicians and Musical Performance in Documentary Cinema analyzes the way documentary footage treats the musical performance, and goes far deeper into the subject matter than most contemporary musical studies. While those books -- at best -- gloss over the possibilities offered by deep ...
The debut release on Limited Fanfare Records is this haunting single from the Ettes. The last record I heard from this trio was 2008's Look At Life Again Soon, which was fuzzy, echo-y, garage-y rock 'n' roll. It was fun, and I couldn't get over how much this band made ...
Dave Thompson is rapidly becoming one of our favorite music writers here at Rock Star Journalist. There's something about his writing style that's rather informal and relaxed, as if he's just a well-informed bar mate. However, the man's research and facts are spot on, and regardless of how loose his ...
Nerd alert! Uber-geek author Neal Stephenson -- along with his collaborators on The Mongoliad Greg Bear, E.D. deBirmingham, Mark Teppo, Joseph Brassey, Erik Bear, and Cooper Moo -- will be hosting a live video chat this Thursday, May 16, at 6:00 p.m. Stephenson wrote such modern sci-fi touchstones as Snow ...
Behold! The new video for Kepi Ghoulie's "I Bleed Rock 'N' Roll," the title track to last year's album of the same name. Released today, the video features appearances by members of the Dollyrots, Phenomenauts, and the excellent 1-2-3-4 Go! Records. You can buy the album on LP or CD ...
This podcast was recorded while I was supposed to be on-air for a freeform shift at KJHK. However, thanks to the remarkably intense blooming of the cottonwood trees here in Kansas, my allegies have rendered me pretty much housebound for the next few days. Thus, you get to hear a ...
Is "vision-obscuring" a proper compliment for an album? Let's say so. Basically, I found myself regularly having to brush my hair out of my face, as it was going everywhere while I was listening to this. The Psyched's self-titled LP (a joint production of Slovenly Records and Black Gladiator) is ...
Buffalo's finest indie-poppers Lemuria announced very early this morning that, in addition to their sophomore LP for Birdge 9 later this year, they'll be releasing a "surprise" one-sided 12-inch exclusively through their website. Details: The contents are a secret. But you will get a limited Lemuria 12" that is ONLY available ...
Courtesy the Underground Communique Facebook page comes the news that the Ska Is Dead single series will have a second installment. All they'll say is that it's "coming soon" -- no bands or other details have been announced. The first series featured exclusive tracks from the likes of Mustard Plug, Reel ...
Many thanks to the various bands and record labels that stream their tracks on Soundcloud, Bandcamp, and the like -- you're making it much easier to maintain the podcast during my turntable issues. The stylus drought continues, as I've reconsidered my upgrading to a new and better cartridge in favor ...
Yesterday, after posting news regarding Underground Communique's returning Ska is Dead single series, they posted some more solid details, as well as some hints as to what you can expect. Like the last series, there will be three 7-inches on black vinyl and three 7-inches on color vinyl (last year, it ...
Jacked to the gills on caffeine, hiding in the basement from the mugginess of the outdoors ... I got a little twitchy and repetitive on this week's show. Expect to hear a certain word many times more than you want to over the course of the podcast. I apologize for ...
There Is A Light is a self-published comic from Geoffrey D. Wessel and John Keogh that I picked up while waiting to talk with Tom Brazelton at C2E2. These guys had the booth directly to the left of his, and I chatted with them while Tom was working on a ...
It should surprise no one that the first release on Mike Conte's new label, Demon Problems, is a split featuring his band, Early Man. The other act is "LA's impossibly loud hardcore/punk duo," It's Casual. Early Man contributes the song after which the label is named, while It's Casual offers up ...
Strange rantings and ravings this week, as I complain about many things. Then, suddenly, like a bolt from the blue comes a rather coherent and deeply-thoughtful analysis as to why oi / streepunk never took off as a genre. Bizarre things happen in the basement, y'know? Next week's show is shaping ...
Don't get me wrong -- I love me some crazy-ass psychedelia. Sometimes, however, shit can get way too busy for its own good. "I'm Allright," the second track on Roy And The Devil's Motorcycle's new album, Tell It To The People, gets nuts with reverb and echo thrown on vocals, guitar, ...
According to what I read online, the reason this band's known as Joint D≠ is because "Joint Damage abruptly had to change their band name due to being served a cease and desist order from a Rhode Island rap metal band named Joint Damage." Damn shame. Joint D≠ is just ...
Obviously, I have too much free time, because after I got done going for a walk on Saturday afternoon, I came home and worked my way through a bunch of beer while I listened to all of my Record Store Day acquisitions. This marks the first year I didn't have ...
Three interviews from C2E2 on this week's podcast that I couldn't find a way to run on their own. It was a thrill to speak with three Chicago-area English teachers about teaching graphic novels. They had some insights into a completely different segment of the comic-reading populace, and it was ...
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