
Ever since we featured Teaadora 's marvelous video for "Pre-Agriculatural Languageless Culture" back in the earliest days of 2011 , we've been eagerly and impatiently waiting for Ms. Nikolova's proper album debut À Jamais Vierge / Virgin Forever to finally be released. In January, we wrote that it would happen "soon", but it turns out that we couldn't have been more mistaken. For reasons that lie well beyond our knowledge, it will have taken another full year before the record will have been dropped eventually. The word is now that Hot Releases will have [...]

I was on my way to Texas, and I didn't have a media pass, an official badge, a wristband, or a proper RSVP to any SXSW event. I didn't have a show booked in any proximity to Austin during that mess of musical madness, nor did I try to wiggle my simplistic acoustic set into any possible schedule. Besides, there wasn't any room in our packed sedan for my guitar; I surrendered its spot in the car last minute to make room for stranded DC performance artist Adrian Parsons, whom we ended up scooping up in Knoxville, [...]

Photo & words: Greg Szeto This was an interesting and unusual night. Billed moreso a night of spiritual cleansing as opposed to a night of live music, the theme was to usher in the transitioning seasons, notably the Spring equinox. Things started off with Secrets Secrets delivering some dark and moody sounds. Alternating periods of gentle and pummeling percussion (courtesy of Melissa Moore ), swelled amidst the loops, feedback and throatsinging of Gerry Mak (recent Baltimore transplant and unwitting proxy for down-and-out hipster life and reflexive [...]