mp3: bipolar bear – cape verdemp3: talbot tagora – we live in a sack
out today on olfactory records, abstract distractions is a split 10″ by bipolar bear and talbot tagora. both bands fall into a category of music that i have mostly fallen out of touch with in the past couple years, so i’ll leave [...]
metric has got a new album, fantasies, due out april 14. to be honest, i wasn’t that interested when i learned “gimme sympathy” was the lead single off the album… more than a couple versions of that song have been floating around since as far back as 2007, at least, and i felt like [...]
video: david bowie – be my wife ……. [buy]
apathetic. aloof. amazing.
mp3: bill callahan – eid ma clack shaw
awesome news from drag city today… bill callahan will be playing a free show at baltimore record shop, the sound garden, on april 16! hopefully late enough in the evening for me to make the trip up there after work….
bill will also be stopping by these other [...]
mp3: guided by voices – kicker of elves
there are a lot of problems with amazon.com’s list of the “top 100 greatest indie rock albums of all time” ….. liz phair? at number four? i can’t get behind that… though maybe somebody can. the most questionable selection though has got to be merriweather post pavillion.
i’ll admit, [...]
mp3: bill callahan – eid ma clack shaw …….. [preorder] “i woke up feeling so ripped by reality”
around 2:00pm today, i was struck with an urge i’d never have expected… to have a twitter account… and tweet that lyric over and over and over… as long as it took… until the internet had [...]
mp3: david bowie – station to station ….. [buy]
i recently picked up the book on bowie’s low in the 33 1/3 series and, just 4 pages in, it has already hit me with a revelation. the first chapter begins with two quotes, the first of which makes a lot of sense to me….
“as [...]
video: the safes – the sky is falling
puppets are awesome
mp3: wand – arriving
james jackson toth, formerly of wooden wand, is releasing an album of demos entitled hard knox or “are you sure hank jr done it this way?” on may 26 through thurston moore’s ecstatic peace label. the album is being released under the name wand, and is made up of songs written between [...]
The home-spun tunes of Ariel Rosenberg (aka Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti) have been blowing my mind since I discovered him about three years ago. Though he hasn’t released any new material in quite a while, his compilations of home recorded songs over the last decade are enough for me to attempt wrap my mind around [...]
