Micro Reviews Of Best Hits, Ceremony And Lenses Brooklyn’s Tim Howard has released six albums as Soltero—every one with a different lineup, and every one an indie-rock masterpiece. Best Hits, a [...] Alibi \ Jul 18, 2013 Read More
Micro Reviews Of Olympia, Partygoing And Perfect View I once fantasized about a Celebrity Deathmatch between ever-evolving pop-operatic warblers Zola Jesus and Katie Stelmanis of Toronto-based indietronica band Austra. While ZJ [...] M. Brianna Stallings \ Jul 11, 2013 Read More
Heartless Bastards Target Albuquerque: Erika Wennerstrom On Writing, The Desert And Spirit Animals Erika Wennerstrom On Writing, The Desert And Spirit Animals That voice. You hear it and wonder who this woman is—what led her to tread down icy roads to desert heat with blues [...] Mark Lopez \ Jul 11, 2013 Read More Arrow
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.”
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)
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)
Micro Reviews Of Bombadil, The Copper Gamins And Cowboys And Indian Metrics of Affection is an apt title for Bombadil’s latest release. Securing 13 tracks that focus on the dynamics of love and loss, [...] Alibi \ Jun 27, 2013 Read More
Last Month In Music: May 2013 May 2013 A few years ago, I experienced a deep and isolating depression that ended up costing me almost every friendship. Inexplicably terrified by and [...] Mike Smith \ Jun 27, 2013 Read More A Hawk and a Hacksaw (from left) Jeremy Barnes and Heather Trost
Southwestern "Street Hassle": Prose Poetry In The Vein Of Queer Outrage Prose Poetry In The Vein Of Queer Outrage “Waltzing Matilda,” two words … five syllables and synonymous chords, echoing throughout the room … a vibrating, coagulating no-nonsense that dives into the [...] Mark Lopez \ Jun 27, 2013 Read More
