Visual Coercion

lockett-deerhunter-10_27_10 Chuck Ragan at Knitting Factory Tribeca 12/1/07 Atlas Sound MHOW 10/21 Versus The War on Drugs 3/18/11 The Crocodile, Seattle, WA Ted Leo, Henry Art Gallery Seattle, WA

Bear Claw – No Band Can Be this Good

During the chilliest years of the Cold War a secret project was undertaken here in the United States of A. to develop the most obviously superior rock music ever conceived for export to countries whose youths were sustained with with inferior rock knockoffs and black market Finnish socks.  It was hoped that this would so [...]

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The End of Radio

“Can you hear me now? Out on Rt. 128, the Dark and Lonely… I’ve got my radio on… Can you hear me now!?!? IT’S THE END OF RADIO!!!” Steve Albini, Todd Trainer, and Bob Weston, as the apparition Shellac of North America, emerge after seven years with the aural Sistine Chapel, the magnetic-tape committed Great [...]

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