Visual Coercion

Say Hi at Bowery Ballroom 10/18/09 Broadcast The Destroyer, His annoyance. Bradford Cox of Atlas Sound deerhunter-10_27 Ted Leo, Henry Art Gallery Seattle, WA

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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Peering into the Bright Underblack

Let’s have a shot at the impossible, shall we?  Let’s take a quick glance at Clark’s new record.  If you haven’t already, you should absolutely listen to the new Clark record, out on Warp, Totem’s Flare.  He has recovered from his much too dance-oriented 2008 outing, Turning Dragon, and is again wending at high and [...]

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Diversion on a Monday

A weekend of halcyon days in the sun gone, a few tunes should be put on. A few songs to put a person through an hour or so, to foment some small rebellion among the androids, to encourage a rising up against the civilized worm.  Give the human race a try, get back to the [...]

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There is a Ridiculous Amount of Stuff Coming Down Out of the Hopper.

Portishead, after almost daily tripping over themselves with their surprise club sets here and there for the past year to tease us with the notion they might be half the way there with their new album, have made it official. Not only playing and curating this weekend’s Nightmare Before Christmas All Tomorrow’s Parties Festival, but [...]

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