Dwayne and Leif of Orca Team Seattle's Orca Team have a quite a summer lined up for themselves, and their journey begins right here in NYC for Pop Fest this coming weekend. They will be touring from the great state of Washington, making a stop off in the UK and Ireland for a little tour and the Indie Tracks festival, and then back across the states! Orca Team create blissfully bizarre beachy pop music. Maybe if you put David Lynch in a bathing suit, big sunglasses, and placed him in the middle of a tropical beach [...]
It's spring, honestly almost summer, and one of the things that screams warm weather to me here in Brooklyn is NYC Pop Fest ! Pop Fest has been happening here for a number of years, and I've gotten to see some amazing acts...including Tullycraft, Go Sailor, Allo Darlin', Pants Yell!, Betty and The Werewolves, (the almighty) BOAT, and I even got to dance to Japan's Caucus covering a Rocketship song! While I haven't been able to attend every event it's something that I look forward to every May. Carol [...]
Erika Swyler Erika Swyler is a writer based in Brooklyn, NY, and has had pieces featured on Story Chord and Anderbo . Erika has also been writing a tumblr since 2010 called Cookie Dough and Regret: Baking and Shame , located at ieatbutter.tumblr.com . ieatbutter has developed a following over the past couple years, and I can say with confidence it is the only baking and shame blog written in the second person. All photos posted on ieatbutter are taken by Erika of things that she has baked...then she adds her [...]
James Hanna of Asobi Seksu. Tonight is Planned Parenthood's 5th Annual Roe on the Rocks concert , and New York local dream pop outfit Asobi Seksu will be performing! This is not just any concert, but a benefit for Planned Parenthood New York, and all proceeds will be going to help them with their operations. Planned Parenthood has been a resources for women, teens, and families for reproductive health care, educational programs, and advocacy for over 90 years. If you are going to this concert and [...]
sourpatch Nicole Munoz, Christine Tupou, Mander Far rell, and Rich Gutierrez of San Jose's Sourpatch sat down and talked with me about food, eating, life on the road, a bit of music, and how somethings affect their stomachs. Discussions ranged from their enthusiastic support of Ted Leo and his venture into candy sponsorship (Rich's love for Citizen's Arrest), our bonding of the amazing music of Julie Doiron, in depth discussions on ice cream and non-dairy alternatives all the way to thoughts on coffee in San Francisco and potato chips on I-95. Sourpatch just released their second LP, Stagger and [...]
Capybara Mark Harrison plays drums in Capybara , a band based in Kansas City, but has been living in Austin for the past six months. The distance between the two cities is about 12 hours and while the rest of the band is getting ready to make the long drive, Mark is enjoying the sun and eating as many tacos as humanly possible. Mark gave us his thoughts on where hungery travelers should head if they want tacos, coffee, a sugar rush, magical elixirs, and more. Capybara just released their second LP, will be playing [...]
Photo courtesy of Pretty Things Beer and Ale Project. Pretty Things Beer and Ale Project is a very small company making artisan brews in Somerville, Massachusetts. Dan Paquette and Martha Holley-Paguette brew the beer. Anya Kanevsky works on many of the companies lovely promotions and events, and lastly there is Jim "Bocky" Barnes. Jim is a long time friend of the Dan and Martha's and is the New York City/Philly Rep for Pretty Things. He is in charge of tap handles, stickers, other Pretty odds & ends, as well as spreading their love around our [...]
Charlotte Gudmundsson is a Swedish/Icelandic illustrator and visual artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Charlotte has had work featured on the streets of New York, in Vogue Italy, possibly a wine you drank recently, and many other places. I've been a fan of her art ever since I saw the Jane's Closet mural located at 135 Grand St . (and was inspired to shoot pictures infront of it this past fall). She is the first artist to be featured here, and I'm extremely excited to welcome her to the Great Pumpkin! [...]
photo by Tom Pavlich Welcome to a new segment I am generally going to call "Pairings." In this segment people will be making recommendations to accompany one thing or another. In this first post we will have some of Colorado's finest beers paired with some of it's finest cassettes. Patient Sounds (Intl) is a cassette and cd record label based out of Fort Collins, Colorado run by Matthew Sage. One of my cohorts at Mirror Universe Tapes turned me onto Patient Sounds by recommending M. Pyres' Apart the Echo [...]
photo by Tom Pavlich Welcome to a new segment I am generally going to call "Pairings." In this segment people will be making recommendations to accompany one thing or another. In this first post we will have some of Colorado's finest beers paired with some of it's finest cassettes. Patient Sounds (Intl) is a cassette and cd record label based out of Fort Collins, Colorado run by Matthew Sage. One of my cohorts at Mirror Universe Tapes turned me onto Patient Sounds by recommending M. Pyres' Apart the Echo [...]
photo via The Explorer's Club. Jason Brewer, singer and main song writer of The Explorer's Club , is gearing up to tour in support of their second full length, Grand Hotel , that comes out on Ridge Rock Music on February 14th. He took time out of his busy schedule to talk food in the south with us including some places they may be stopping on their next journey. Explorer's Club is based in Charleston, SC and has been, if I'm not mistaken, for their entire existence. Have you always [...]
photo by Jonathan Basker Matt LeMay is a musician based in Brooklyn, NY, the platform manager for bitly , author of Elliot Smith's XO , and writer for Pitchfork . Matt has become a friend over the years, and now that we both live in New York he is one of my go to guys to talk to about food. When I decided to relaunch this blog with a focus on food and drink I knew that there was no one better to start off [...]
hello all, gprecs.com is currently being reformatted. new content, focus, and direction will be coming in the next couple of weeks. stay tuned. tom
a single tone. pulses. systems. layers. building, growing, evolving. beats ever so vaguely nodding toward the dance floor from inside the isolation of headphones. 2:49 hits the climax. anonymous electronics penetrating the night, the day, your ears, the desolate morning for two ears...maybe four. this is the coup de grace for me. DLTRA will awaken your ears, and I look forward to that day. [mp3] RxRy- "/niouskx" ------------- it's no secret that i've been listening to RxRy non-sop these days and it [...]
a single tone. pulses. systems. layers. building, growing, evolving. beats ever so vaguely nodding toward the dance floor from inside the isolation of headphones. 2:49 hits the climax. anonymous electronics penetrating the night, the day, your ears, the desolate morning for two ears...maybe four. this is the coup de grace for me. DLTRA will awaken your ears, and I look forward to that day. [mp3] RxRy- "/niouskx" ------------- it's no secret that i've been listening to RxRy non-sop [...]
Yesterday, around 6:15pm, while riding in Long Island City a woman getting out of the backseat of a car service (or black cab) opened her car door into me while I was on my bike. She was exiting the car street side(not curbside), and her door was opened into my body (my leg has a door shaped bruise on it). The car service was double parked. I was knocked to the ground. The woman who hit me seemed concerned. Her friend who got out of the other side of the car started to immediately tell me [...]
rain storms in graveyards as the sun peaks through creating just the faintest rainbow. sweet voices bringing warmth in the dead of winter. tales of romance and disaster sung back and forth. equal parts love and death, gothic and twee. sounds that are modern and timeless at once. Veronica Falls debut self title will be released on slumberland records on september 20th. "Bad Feeling," the first single , is out on 73 and in video form: The final track of the album, "Come on [...]
Athenian's torn between the alterna rock of REM, the blissful psychedelics of Elephant Six, and the Pacific Northwest in the mid-90s? riot grrrl, c-86, post punk enthusiasts? A band that is truly schooled in everything you love. Get Up: full hearts can't loose. Tunabunny , a name you will remember forever, have cobbled together your deepest crushes from the 90s, turned the guitars up, and put the women in the front. Channeling the terrifying wisdom of their local Georgia Guide Stones giving rock music a new principles to live by. It's one of [...]
Hey Friends, It's the last saturday of the month, tomorrow (you know September 24th?!?) and I'm spinning records again at the Diamond ...this has been pretty regular except for a little rain out by the hurricane. Emily and Ted will behind the bar, and while I don't have a scan of it this time...there is a nice flier hanging up around Greenpoint w/ a picture of Neil's crotch and his lovely yashika camera. this is some of my inspiration for the evening...some of which will and will not [...]
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