Visual Coercion

Destroyer 3/18/11 The Crocodile, Seattle, WA Another Broadcast The Destroyer, His annoyance. bradford_med_deerhunter_10_27_10 another Deerhunter 10_27 Chuck Ragan at Knitting Factory Tribeca 12/1/07

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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Intense Pop for your Burrito (for that ass)

Occasionally a thing comes along that is so blisteringly, powerfully overdriven and flawlessly done that I sit bolt upright and feel like I’m going to shit bolts of lightning when I see it.  Yes, this is pop, but it’s also so much more than the human sensory apparatus should be able to take that I’m [...]

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A Saturday Playlist for Weekend Afternoons that Turn into Evenings

Time does get away from one.  When living a life you keep under your hat inarticulate, sometimes you fall back on making lists of songs that would go well with a chilly autumn Saturday afternoon.  Don’t you know it. What have I been doing?  I managed to get out to see Jesse Malin and Gaslight [...]

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