Visual Coercion

Chuck Ragan at Knitting Factory Tribeca 12/1/07 Chuck Ragan at Knitting Factory Tribeca 12/1/07 Plus or Minus Chuck Ragan at Knitting Factory Tribeca 12/1/07 Another one of Say Hi at Bowery Ballroom 10/18/09 One more of David Bazan at Bowery Ballroom 10/18/09

The Record-buying Public Shouldn’t be Voting

The new Art Brut, produced by the Pixies’ Frank Black, is absolutely deserving of the hype currently dripping off the tines of the forks of the avant pop devourers. “Slap-dash for no cash- those are the records I like”, lead vox Eddie Argos recounts, describing his own recording’s aesthetic while poeming dithyrambs for the hot, rough and tumble recordings that were championed and lovingly given nativity by slop rockers like The Replacements.

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