Blue Skies Daisy Days
I was completely sucked in from the moment I saw the words: Teenage, Jesus, Ride...
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Mark Vidler/GHP: Spliced Krispies
If you’ve read my VOX at all, you know I’m a passionate fan of mashups–...
Broken Social Scene @ First Ave., Minneapolis 10/13
Tour Dates 10/18/08 Gargoyle St. Louis, Missouri 10/19/08 University of Illinois Urbana, IL 10/21/08 Toad’s...
Grails – Doomsdayers Holiday
Soup wrote this: Portland’s Grails dropped their new album, Doomsdayer’s Holiday on Temporary Residence...
New releases from Sensory Records
I always love getting Sensory Records releases for review. None of them really should be...
Old Wounds by Young Widows
Tour Dates 09/09/08 Ear-X-Tacy Louisville, KY 10/14/08 TBA Detroit, Michigan 10/15/08 Sneaky Dee’s Toronto, ON...
Tricky, Knowle West Boy
Tour Dates 09/04/08 The Filmore At Irving Plaza New York 09/05/08 The Trocadero Philadelphia 09/06/08...
Jeff Hanson
Tour Dates 08/23/08 Minneapolis, MN @ Triple Rock 09/15/08 Seattle, WA @ Chop Suey 09/16/08...
Wolves in the Throne Room – Two Hunters (vinyl review)
Living on a farm outside Olympia, Washington, Wolves in the Throne Room are, in this...
YEASAYER – The Experience.
Tour Dates 08/01/08 Lollapalooza Chicago, Illinois 08/02/08 Lollapalooza Chicago, Illinois 08/04/08 Summer Stage NYC, New...
Motion City Soundtrack Acoustic EP
Tour Dates 07/23/08 Ramkota Exhibit Hall Souix Falls, South Dakota 07/24/08 Grandmas Sports Garden Duluth,...
WHA?!’s Summer of Love 2008 mashup monsterpiece!
I generally don’t think much of mashups. Some of them are really creative–“The Ghosts That...
Beangrowers – Not in a Million Lovers
Alison Galea’s voice makes me nostalgic for the 90s when pretty girls with pretty voices...
The Tear Garden
In the exponentially-advancing field of electronic music, there are very, very few records released that...
Albert Hammond Jr. – Como Te Llama
This is Mr. Hammonds sophomore album and I’ve got to say, it’s pretty good. Then...
The Forms
Seriously, is everyone in New York City in a band? The sheer number of musical...
Witch – Lazy Bones!! (prog/psych from Zambia, circa 1975)
Zambia’s Witch is a really awesome recent discovery of mine. I recently found myself bored...
Best Of The 90s
Sorry, no music from me today (surely Vu will add some to the post?) but...
The Alligators.
They pretty much sound awesome and the choruses are totally sing-a-longable. Most excellent. I really...
Ascend – Ample Fire Within
Ascend is, at its core, a collaborative effort between Sunn 0))), Engine Kid, and Goatsnake’s...
Eurovision 2008
Yup, that time of year again. Europe collectively moans, and the rest of you stare...
Basement Jaxx – Good Luck
The recent spate of hot UK weather (ok, hot here is any time it doesn’t...
The Sword/Slough Feg! Live! At Neurolux in Boise, ID, 4/24/08!
I was once watching Henry Rollins talk about meeting William Shatner for the recording of...
Converge/The Red Chord/Baroness/Genghis Tron/Blacklisted show review
Epitaph was recently cool enough to stick me on their guest list to see one...
The New Romantic movement
My favorite genre of music growing up as a teenager in the late 1970’s and...
Time Again – Darker Days
Tour 02/22/08 Knitting Factory Hollywood, CA 03/14/08 Albertos Pizza Lompoc, CA 03/15/08 Showcase Theater Corona,...
Club 8 – The Boy Who Couldn’t Stop Dreaming
It’s been a while since my last post, but I figure it’s about time I...
The Cribs – Men’s Needs
Tour Dates 01/29/08 Mandela Hall,NorthernIreland 01/30/08 Ambassador Theatre Dublin 02/01/08 Barrowlands Glasgow 02/02/08 Manchester Ace...
We’re All Going To Die For Christmas
I hate jumping on to bandwagons (or should I say bandsleighs?) but we live in...
Girls Don’t Cry, Village Underground (11/9)
The Village Underground’s performance space is a funky brick-walled basement with blue light floating over...