Cold Wave Prayer: Songs For Dreaming Of Winter Songs For Dreaming Of Winter I’ve had enough. It was 11 summers ago when I chose to relocate to this burg over the muggy Texas Hill Country. Maybe [...] Samantha Anne Carrillo \ Sep 05, 2013 Read More (yellowcloud via Compfight cc)
Four Up: In The Key Of Xx, A Flock Of Blackbirds, “Jane Says” Revolt And Alpha Wolfe In The Key Of Xx Google “best songwriters,” and you may be surprised by how few women appear on resulting best-of lists. Mick and Keef get mad cred, [...] Samantha Anne Carrillo \ Aug 29, 2013 Read More AKZOphoto via Compfight cc
Sonic Reducer: Micro Reviews Of Behold, A Pale Horse, Roll On And Pain Is Beauty UK artist Ebony Bones, who was Amy Winehouse’s classmate, earned her stage name from the Damned’s Rat Scabies and collaborated with Damon Albarn, [...] Alibi \ Aug 29, 2013 Read More
Last Month In Music: July 2013 Years ago, while living in Boston, a group of friends and I were walking down a downtown street when we came to a [...] Mike Smith \ Aug 29, 2013 Read More Fort Hobo
Ledger Lines: Lol Version Dos, Piano Bar Swank And Punk Rock Girl Lol Version Dos Leeches of Lorchestra (a nine-piece version of twang-and-trash trio Leeches of Lore) unleashed its sonic fury on Downtown last year at a bittersweet [...] Samantha Anne Carrillo \ Aug 22, 2013 Read More Leeches of Lorchestra
A Vile Sincerity: Songwriter Kurt Vile Talks Music, American Fiction And Fatherhood Songwriter Kurt Vile Talks Music, American Fiction And Fatherhood Kurt Vile probably doesn’t have a heart of gold. He might be a freewheeling ’70s-era rock revivalist with a penchant for interjecting with [...] Mark Lopez \ Aug 22, 2013 Read More (Shawn Brackbill)
Sonic Reducer: Micro Reviews Of Antenna To The Afterworld, Nobody Knows. And Tookah This might be the best Sonny & the Sunsets album yet. A simple collection of groovin’ tunes, Antenna to the Afterworld has a [...] Alibi \ Aug 22, 2013 Read More
Sonic Reducer: Micro Reviews Of To The Happy Few, Imps Of Perversion And Swisher Los Angeleno experimental/shoegaze band Medicine made three fine albums in the early-to-mid-’90s but are best known in the popular culture vortex for their [...] Samantha Anne Carrillo \ Aug 15, 2013 Read More
Four Up: “ ... A Stone Gas, Honey,” Wax Vs. Twang, Baba’s Sunday Roost And Psyched For Sexbeat “ ... A Stone Gas, Honey!” SouthWest Organizing Project (SWOP) is hosting a ’70s-themed dance party at Sister (407 Central NW) on Thursday, Aug. 15. The Social Justice Soul [...] Samantha Anne Carrillo \ Aug 15, 2013 Read More (Soul Train Holdings, LLC)
Aural Fixation: My Breaking (Bad) Heart A bittersweet time approaches. I’ve been in love with “Breaking Bad” since the first episode aired on Jan. 20, 2008. And I’m certainly [...] Samantha Anne Carrillo \ Aug 08, 2013 Read More (The Candy Lady)
