Visual Coercion

David Bazan and his band 10/18/09 at Bowery Ballroom Kurt Vile and the Violators, upright. Richard Baluyut and Fontaine Toups of Versus Chuck Ragan at Knitting Factory Tribeca 12/1/07 The War on Drugs 3/18/11 The Crocodile, Seattle, WA James Baluyut of Plus or Minus

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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Jumping up and down for Wheat

The dulcet tones of grown men crying. Get your whole grains.  Get them and shove them in your sensitive, your emotional, your very ears.  Wheat is the crop to circle. Wheat is a band who made a pop album in ’99 to snap, crackle, and pop all pop albums, a quiet record with slick, loud [...]

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