Sonic Reducer: Micro Reviews Of Beat The Champ, The Magic Whip And California Nights If you wanna rock the fuck out while contemplating the meaning of life, the persistence of memory, the sadness of nostalgia and the [...] August March \ May 07, 2015 Read More
Dirt City Archives: The Big River Band The Big River Band It’s 1978. I’m 20 years old, living in a log cabin in the East Mountains. A few miles away on South 14 stands [...] Captain America \ May 07, 2015 Read More The Big River (Courtesy of artist)
Straight From The Garage: Looking In On The Glass Menageries Looking In On The Glass Menageries It’s a cold Sunday morning. Storm clouds are rolling in, the scent of impending raindrops coating the asphalt. I’m greeted by Mauro Woody, [...] Mark Lopez \ May 07, 2015 Read More Glass Menageries’ practice (Mark Lopez)
Rise To The Challenge: Attend These Shows Because You Can Attend These Shows Because You Can “Drive a great big truck/ When I’m old, when I’m old/ Haul the wrecks down to the wreck yard/ Help the boys unload/ [...] August March \ Apr 30, 2015 Read More (An excerpt from a photo by J. R. Eyerman)
Get Lit: Conquering America One Beat At A Time If you’re anything like Vince Noir, the mad musical genius from “The Mighty Boosh,” you earnestly believe everything that came before electronica was [...] August March \ Apr 30, 2015 Read More
Sonic Reducer: Micro Reviews Of Barter 6, Cherry Bomb And Love Story Every Young Thug tape in recent memory had moments where auto-tuned yelps, yowls, ad-libs and double-time raps lit your headphones up, requiring a [...] Elliot Pearson \ Apr 30, 2015 Read More
Sonic Reducer: Micro Reviews Of On To The Stars, The Girdle And Big Sad Guy Ii On the surface, the title track on SuperGiant’s latest On to the Stars bears a striking resemblance to Corrosion of Conformity’s “Albatross,” but [...] August March \ Apr 23, 2015 Read More
What You Came For: Concerts Worthy Of Attention Concerts Worthy Of Attention “Princess cards she sends me with her regards/ Barroom eyes shine vacancy, to see her you gotta look hard/ Wounded deep in battle, [...] August March \ Apr 23, 2015 Read More
Aural Fixation: What Is “Art Music”? The term “art music” refers to work that involves advanced theoretical and structural concerns and a written tradition. Art music often originates from [...] August March \ Apr 23, 2015 Read More
Sonic Cinema: Success Ain’t Always The Best Revenge In the British comic book Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future, the titular Earthling hero fights a host of ugly aliens on a [...] August March \ Apr 16, 2015 Read More
