My Pet Peeves Interpreted By “Buffy The Vampire Slayer” Samantha Anne Carrillo \ Aug 01, 2013 Read More
Four Up: In The Name Of Psych, Instagram Rock, “Dead Flowers” On “Rockaway Beach” And Northerly Neighbors Roost In The Name Of Psych Brooklynite self-described “modern psychedelia” act Naam—whose moniker seems to originate with the Sanskrit term for “name,” “naam”—brings their hypnotic brand of heavy modern-psych [...] Samantha Anne Carrillo \ Aug 01, 2013 Read More Naam (Samantha Marble)
Aural Fixation: I Scream, You Scream There’s a certain sardonic pleasure to gorging on icy confections during the heart of winter, but—let’s face it—ice cream, paletas, sorbet and the [...] Samantha Anne Carrillo \ Jul 25, 2013 Read More "Popsicle of love / Gimme gimme gimme one of those (hoo!)" (Pink Sherbert Photography)
Let There Be Sound, Funk Fix In The Fe, Podcast Catalyst And Killer Drone Let There Be Sound Local metal fest Crust in the Dust is hosting a crabwalk—a round robin and collaborative performance wherein the audience sits dead center—to raise [...] Samantha Anne Carrillo \ Jul 25, 2013 Read More Futilitarian
Six Degrees Of Nü-Folk, Mercury Rising, All That Jazz And Rocking The Cat’s Cradle Six Degrees Of Nü-Folk Ithica, N.Y.-based artist Annie Lewandowski grew up in Minnesota, which she describes as “a place full of things that are long and longer: [...] Samantha Anne Carrillo \ Jul 18, 2013 Read More
Micro Reviews Of Books About Metal, Moondog And 4Ad Katherine Turman and Jon Wiederhorn(It Books · hardcover · $32.50)Revolver Senior Editor Jon Wiederhorn and “Nights with Alice Cooper” producer Katherine Turman successfully [...] Samantha Anne Carrillo \ Jul 18, 2013 Read More
I.w.b.l.o.t.o.b.i.h.i.f.o.t.i., La Vida Loca And Purr-Fect Psych-Pop I.w.b.l.o.t.o.b.i.h.i.f.o.t.i. Apart from this YouTube vid (bit.ly/weepersf) of a live performance, intelligence on Santa Fe doom outfit Weeper is scarce. Whoever they are, Weeper—whose [...] Samantha Anne Carrillo \ Jul 04, 2013 Read More This deathstalker scorpion, Leiurus quinquestriatus, will not be in attendance. (Matt Reinbold via Compight cc)
Sonic Reducer: Drifters And Beyond Lo-fi, no-wave gem Dirty Beaches is Taiwanese-born Québécois rocker Alex Zhang Hungtai. I’ve been nursing a heavy crush on “Sweet 17” from 2011’s [...] Samantha Anne Carrillo \ Jul 04, 2013 Read More
American Music: Songs In The Key Of U.s.a. Songs In The Key Of U.s.a. The Declaration of Independence contains one of my favorite sentences in the history of American establishment documents: “We hold these truths to be [...] Samantha Anne Carrillo \ Jul 04, 2013 Read More “Pick up the cry.”
Feminist Compote: Hot Fruit Cooks With Fire Hot Fruit Cooks With Fire The recipe for Hot Fruit calls for simmering anthropology, women’s studies, pop music, comedy, performance art and Czech New Wave cinema in a [...] Samantha Anne Carrillo \ Jun 27, 2013 Read More Hot Fruit (from top) Grace Ellis, Sara Blumenthal and Mica Huntley (Nani Photo)