Visual Coercion

Bradford Cox Kurt Vile and the Violators Ted Leo, Henry Art Gallery Seattle, WA Destroyer 3/18/11 The Crocodile, Seattle, WA The War on Drugs 3/18/11 The Crocodile, Seattle, WA Richard Baluyut and Fontaine Toups of Versus

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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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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