GOODBYE VICTORIAN HOUSES, ANTOINE REVERB Happy Garlic, Mexico **** Rating: 88 By Juan Manuel Torreblanca When I was in college, studying language and literature, I often hated teachers who turned courses that were supposed to be about an author and his work into endless anecdotes about their own encounters with the author. Nevertheless, I am [...]
Charged GBH The Punk Singles 1981-84 Label: EMI International Released: January 15, 2002 Colin 'Col' Abrahall - vocals Colin 'Jock' Blyth - guitar Ross Lomas - bass Scott Preece - drums 1. Race Against Time 2. Knife Edge 3. Lycanthropy 4. Necrophilia 5. State Executioner 6. Dead On Arrival 7. Generals 8. Freak 9. No Survivors 10. Self Destruct 11. Big Women 12. Sick Boy 13. Am I Dead Yet? 14. Slit Your Own Throat [...]
riø Jeff The Brotherhood - "Mind Ride" Buddy, you're getting pretty drunk. You look like you're at sea, a bit. Like, the sea on valium. You're eyes are like clotheslines, you could hang a sweater from that stare. You talk like you're already throwing up, like you're afraid the words might slip back down your throat. You're checking your pockets for your consonants. You're holding a speaker up to one ear like a pillow or an important call. You're dismissing everyone for offenses they haven't [...]
Jeff The Brotherhood - "Mind Ride" Buddy, you're getting pretty drunk. You look like you're at sea, a bit. Like, the sea on valium. You're eyes are like clotheslines, you could hang a sweater from that stare. You talk like you're already throwing up, like you're afraid the words might slip back down your throat. You're checking your pockets for your consonants. You're holding a speaker up to one ear like a pillow or an important call. You're dismissing everyone for offenses they haven't committed, you're flitting your wrist in such a way I can't tell if you [...]
Story by Nathaniel Roe Photography by John Francis Peters They say that after civilization finally collapses and cities become abandoned, plants will reclaim New York City beginning from Central Park and moving steadily outward in concentric circles until all the steel and concrete is completely hidden. At the moment, you might say nature is a bit edged out. On a recent summer afternoon, I met Theo Angell at a little anomaly in the Bushwick area of Brooklyn called Flushing Farms. A few ears of corn, raspberry plants and flowers look like someone transplanted fifteen square [...]
This new track from practically the only rapper out of Atlanta we aren't hearing from is exclusive to DJ Envy and Tapemasters Inc.'s mixtape, Purple Codeine 25 , which you can download at Dirty Glove Bastard . The track is R&B influenced with oo's and a smoothly crooned chorus and yup, this cat's as much a playboy as always, proposing that he and his lady "pretend that we work at Ikea/Test every piece of furniture to make sure it's stable." The slowed down punk beat is a nice crossover element, and you can almost hear "Sweet Dreams" in [...]
And so, after the low-key warm ups and the emotion of Glastonbury and London, so comes the third chapter of the rewritten Blur story. Would they manage to maintain the momentum of the past few weeks or, removed from any real degree of drama or connection, would this be the point where a level of normality crept in? No such problems for SNOW PATROL however, who are almost part of the Oxegen furniture by now, working their way through the ranks from their days of playing tiny stages at Witnness. If this had been any other year, [...]
Our regular readers, which we hope is all of you, are probably aware that I have been slightly MIA over the course of the last ten days or so. And if you have really been paying attention, you are also aware that my absence has been due in large part to my recent move to a new condo in Chicago's wonderful Ukrainian Village neighborhood, just down the street from everyone's favorite venue The Empty Bottle . I had hoped that today's Hodge Podge would be the first column written from the comfort of my new home, but unfortunately the [...]
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*Our view from the toilet in the basement Last Saturday night the Panic Manual crew crashed a NXNE after-party at Henri Faberge's ( of the Adorables ) house. The first thing that sprung to mind as soon as we walked in the door: "Where did the dude put all his furniture?" The party was fully hopping by the time we arrived around 1:00 with a regular rotation of bands in the basement, three beer for $10, a DJ in the living room and cute girls in sundresses standing on the stairs waiting to use [...]
Starting with this post, I've decided to take Local Vertical in a new direction. I've rearranged the furniture and the computer I use to write this is now facing east. • • • • Toronto six-piece Rock Plaza Central is preparing for the second leg of their tour of the US, this time hitting the midwest and west coast. To kick off their tour, and in celebration of their recent album release and Paper Bag Records debut, At The Moment Of Our Most Needing, Or If Only They Could Turn Around, They Would Know [...]
I've written about the Antlers before . The band, the creation of singer/songwriter Peter Silbermann, has released one of this year's best and most complete albums in Hospice . In the midst of preparing for his summer tour, Silbermann found the time to speak with Everybody Taste about finding success in music, transferring Hospice to the stage, and my favorite, if his band were an animal, what kind it would be. ET : What was the first song that made you want to play music? [...]
Buffoon Empiricism is a response to the terrible perseverance and proliferation of information and music online. Everyone can access everything, all of the time. Every message board post has a download inside. Every riposte has another riposte. Club music has become more of a spectacle than ever in the last five years; regarded, consumed and critiqued from a metaphorical and physical distance. FWD>> is now being streamed live around the world from Curtain Road. We admire the futurist beauty of being able to smash great distances with technology, underground music seeping up through the global soil. [...]
Me and the missus are rambling away together on this one. It's largely new music, bookended by a couple of more well-known things. We Invent a new term - a weird combination of food and sex called culiniungus. We offend the Irish and the Scots. In fact, we are as offensively and predictably us as you could imagine. We were out and totally smashed at the Broken Records gig at the Bowery yesterday, followed by some hot Sneaky Pete's action. There are some disastrously embarrassing pictures here , if you want to point and laugh. The gig [...]
May?!? Really? What happened to March and April? *blinks* This year just seems to be flying by, with the "Date Added" timestamps in my iTunes library as my only proof that the past few months have really happened. Music is funny like that with me. When I hear a song, I can remember what I was doing when I bought the album/track, roughly when I bought it and so forth. I've also found that I'm far more productive, and capable of learning stuff when I've got music playing. I suppose that comes from growing up in a musical house. [...]
Earlier this week, the Chicago Tribune 's Greg Kot asked a few Chicago-area musicians about how they were fighting through the tough economy. Some formed cover bands (Led Zeppelin 2... ha!) and went out with stripped-down outfits on the road. Part of me is a little "yeah, duh" about musicians having second jobs, and in the story, Katie Tuten, co-owner of Chicago club the Hideout, notes: "People who play music are better able to handle whatever the economy throws at them because they're always on a tight budget." That is very true. We [...]
Earlier this week, the Chicago Tribune 's Greg Kot asked a few Chicago-area musicians about how they were fighting through the tough economy. Some formed cover bands (Led Zeppelin 2... ha!) and went out with stripped-down outfits on the road. Part of me is a little "yeah, duh" about musicians having second jobs, and in the story, Katie Tuten, co-owner of Chicago club the Hideout, notes: "People who play music are better able to handle whatever the economy throws at them because they're always on a tight budget." That is very true. We [...]
The ULTIMATE Summer Music Festival Guide: The Who, What, When, and Where of the Season By Abby Johnston Ah, summertime. For any true music lover, summers mean one thing, and one thing only. No, not swimming, not your character-building job stocking shelves – music festivals. Ever since a bunch of hippies dropped acid and rolled around in mud at a little thing we call Woodstock, festivals have become a summer necessity. They bring a flood of obnoxious, drunken fans to spend an [...]
Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire - "A Case in Point" »» Buy The Swimming Hour OK, I'm really late on the Andrew Bird band wagon, but I'm here, and I like eclectic violin rock. There. I said it. In fact what I like about this album as a whole is that it really is ROCK. Solidly crafted American rock, the, I don't know, Shaker furniture of rock. The kind of thing that you should be listening to in a convertible car on a summer road trip. What I [...]
Back in January during the Tomorrow Never Knows festival at Schuba's here in Chicago, we were able to sit down with one of our highlighted bands, the fearsome electric trio The Poison Arrows . While they put on one helluva show, it was after the show that the trio showed their fun-loving and goofy sided nature. I caught up with the three regarding their January 15th performance and learned a few things about the band beyond the walls of music. Unfortunately a lot of the juicier details have been omitted from the full interview due [...]
Outta the OC, Voxhaul Broadcast, flavored a whole lot like Cold War Kids and Kings of Leon, already moves with the poise of a well-embraced band, apparently settled comfortably in a working groove and enjoying their gig of life as successful rockers. Maybe they've had a look in a crystal ball. Let's hope that forecast is accurate. The band's general sound is psychedelic haze, heavy on sedative properties of dope or Robitussin, pavement inside your shoes when the wind's gusting, or suspension in a vat of sticky warm molasses with your very special someone. I personally vote for the last [...]
Beck - "Harry Partch" ; The history of the musical feud dates back centuries probably, but in the last few decades it has really been [...]More about Beach House
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