My favorite fun, fun, fun fest of the year is on! Dates are set, tickets are onsale and line-up revealed. Once again the 2 day (plus new opening night with Weird ‘Al’ Yankovic) festival will take place in Waterloo Park in Austin, TX Nov. 6th & 7th and will include an amazing, unique mix...
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R.I.P. Guru of Gang Starr. One of the greats from the Golden Age! Crystal Castles are now releasing their album digitally this Friday. And they are coming to Denver! The Hold Steady have annouced their summer tour and are coming to Denver! Menomena will release Mines on July 27th. Freelance Whales have a new...
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Okkervil River at The Independent in San Francisco on September 5th, 2007. This was The Stage Names tour. I went to this show solo because I could not find anyone that knew or wanted to see this band. Doubt that would happen today!
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I used to have a YouTube site where I would post quality clips from shows. YouTube shut me down a few years ago for copyright issues stemming from Prince and Kanye West. I didn’t even have any Prince up there, but I did have My Brightest Diamond covering a Prince song and that was...
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No Age recorded a Daytrotter Session that was posted last week. Fucked Up is releasing material for Record Store Day. Sasquatch Festival has announced 2010 line-up. Beach House will also release an EP, Zebra, for Record Store Day. Dr. Dre is suing Death Row Records. 3-day passes for the Pitchfork Music Festival have sold-out....
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Ernest Green is Washed Out. Washed Out is Ernest Greene. He makes electronic music under the new chillwave subgenre. As much as I hate to admit it, I think I like chillwave. I liked it before I knew it had a name. Being drawn to Neon Indian, Memory Tapes/Cassette and the first single from...
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I know this sounds like a rewind to 1990 and not 2009, but these bands that were so influential in the 80s and 90s have put out three great releases in the past year. Sonic Youth’s The Eternal builds on the promise of Rather Ripped. It is the best album they have put forward...
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Blakroc came out in late November, 2009. By that point in the year I’m not paying attention to new releases. So this one slipped by. I remember seeing the name on a few of the sites I visit, but until now I had no clue who Blakroc was, what type of music they played...
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I put this under the Rewind heading because this album came out last year, but I could have listed it under New Artist Discovery. Evidently this Irish band has been around since 2006, but this is the first I am hearing from them. Not sure where this album came from but just got around...
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When reading a review of a new album I usually stop as soon as I hit the word emo. Even if everything else about the material sounds good, I have to move on. I don’t know why this is. Oh yea, it’s because most emo music sucks. It cannot be related to by anyone...
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I first came across Bear in Heaven in October of 2009. The first I heard from them was the single Lovesick Teenagers which was quickly followed by Wholehearted Mess. They are a 4-man group led by Jon Philpot and are part of the prolific Brooklyn scene. The songs on their debut release remind me...
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