Visual Coercion

Destroyer 3/18/11 The Crocodile, Seattle, WA Richard Baluyut and Fontaine Toups of Versus Chuck Ragan at Knitting Factory Tribeca 12/1/07 Kurt Vile and the Violators, upright. John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats The War on Drugs 3/18/11 The Crocodile, Seattle, WA

Best Music of 2011

“Because my opinion is important.” When Saints Go Machine, Konkylie [!K7] A sweet, sweet Danish act of synthetic daring and vocal experimentation, despite the stupid name.  It’s nice when a group knows how to slow things down while still perching on the razor’s edge of production and programming.           Obits, Moody, [...]

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New Year

The music of 2009, in the order it occurs to me: Screaming Females: Power Move An excellent review can be found here at Impose.  ’70s guitars hearken back to the ’90s, and all your basic dad rock bands are fused into the soul of Ted Nugent, clarified, and injected into the very small guitar-shredding frame [...]

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Atlas Sound at Music Hall of Williamsburg 10/21/09

It comes as no surprise to this reviewer that I got a ticket to the Atlas Sound show at Music Hall of Williamsburg as soon as tickets went on sale.  Nothing would be left to chance for me in the idle man’s game that is CMJ, the only world-famous rock festival that isn’t a festival.  [...]

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Deerhunter Plays Williamsburg on Sunday

Free Soma I know that I talk ad nauseum about the band Deerhunter, and I know that my friends are also quite aware that I talk incessantly about the band Deerhunter when the topic of music comes up.  I have written a thing or two about Deerhunter, I have listened to Deerhunter records, Deerhunter, Deerhunter, [...]

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