I had anxiously been awaiting the arrival of Handsome Furs’ newest album, Face Control, which finally came out back on March 10. Like any good fan, I raced to the nearest record store and planned on buying it without a listen. Unfortunately, I decided to hang out at Amoeba for a little bit [...]
What’s going on in Canada? Our neighbors to the north have given us yet another band who likes to play with toys…known simply (and quite terribly) as Holy Fuck. This time, not only are we greeted with toy keyboards as with their fellow countrymen, Sunset Rubdown, but also a cacophany of toy phaser guns and [...]
Ahhh, it’s so nice to have Aesop Rock back. His first two label releases, Float (2000) and Labor Days (2001), sent signals of a massive underground talent to be reckoned with. His beats are strange, dark and beautiful, and he has such a unique cadence to his rhyming that’s hard to compare to [...]
The Dodos are one of the more interesting bands to come out in recent years. Their distinct sound, that some have categorizes as “psychedelic folk”, is essentially the product of just two players, guitarist Meric Long and drummer Logan Kroeber, but they’ve been known to throw in the occasional curveball (ie. xylophones and toy [...]
There seems to be a constant influx of talented Canadians making their mark in the music scene these days. Not that this is anything unusual. Our neighbors up north are responsible for bringing us bands like Arcade Fire, Hot Hot Heat, and Broken Social Scene, and even spawned some great classic rock outfits [...]
Following in the footsteps of Vincent Moon’s Take-Away Shows (or Les Concerts A Emporter) and (I guess) “Taxicab Confessions”, this series of videos, called Black Cab Sessions, showcases artists performing in one take in the back of, predictably, a taxicab.
In this particular installment Sunset Rubdown, one of Wolf Parade’s Spencer Krug’s many side projects, performs [...]
I remember seeing The Bird and the Bee at the Silverlake Lounge about 3 or 4 years ago when they were still a blip in the mess that is the Los Angeles music scene. Since then they’ve released three studio albums, one EP and two LP’s, and have managed to ride the fine line [...]
This is not a joke. You ever wonder what would happen if that balding, overweight janitor from high school was secretly spending his time at home experimenting with synthesizers and MIDI’s, only to emerge 10-15 years later as somewhat of a cult hero in the electronic music scene? Enter Dan Deacon. This [...]
Gold Chains rocks BART. It’s so funny because the same thing happened to me on my way to work the other day…
Most people know Conor Oberst as the intense and emotional brains behind Bright Eyes. But when you listen to his music you get the feeling he’s about to pop, and could really use a venting session. Well, in this side project that sadly only released one full-length album back in 2002, Oberst takes [...]
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