
February 23rd, 2010 by Eric Rex
Songs as simple as a knife and just as deadly. Typically when you listen to electronic music, it’s generally very clean and clear and the production is straightforward. Let the music do the work or at the very least, let the production not get in the way of the audience and the music.
For Black Bug, [...]

February 16th, 2010 by Eric Rex
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I feel like there’s a bit of danger in describing VV Brown’s music as Pop R&B, because doing so will immediately conjure to mind the rather horrible direction that popular R&B music has taken over the past twenty years, from the nadir of vapid singing sweaty sex jams over hip hop beats, to [...]

February 11th, 2010 by Eric Rex
Saturday, February 13, 2010 @ Vaudville Park
|| SWEETHEARTS SHOWCASE
|| A female singer-songwriter benefit and bake sale for SHOWPAPER
|| Music by
|| Phoebe Kreutz
|||Frances Rose (Sarah & Michelle Cagianese)
|||| Supercute!
|||||| Rebecca Schiffman
|||||||| Bigger Princess
|| Sweet treats by Famous Original Rachel
[ VAUDVILLE PARK ]
26 Bushwick Avenue at Devoe Street | Williamsburg, Brooklyn
L to Graham, G to Metropolitan | [...]

February 10th, 2010 by Eric Rex
Monday saw the release of Wisconson Rapper Juiceboxxx’s first mixtape, Thunder Zone Volume 1. I wanted to give it a good listen before I tried to say anything about it. It encapsulates a lot of his carreer featuring remixes of older songs from his previous releases and collaborations along with some new stuff unique to [...]

February 9th, 2010 by Eric Rex
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Last night was Hadouken!’s first ever American show, where they played at Mercury Lounge to a crowd of less than 30 people. It was honestly kind of surreal. Hadouken! as a band have fairly large cultural cache’ in the UK, playing festivals, large venues, and enjoy popular music press and [...]

February 1st, 2010 by Eric Rex
Listening to Southside Stranglers’s debut EP Too Much TV I feel like someone kicked their way into my house, took over my record player, drank a quart of whiskey, smashed in my bathroom mirror and fired handguns affectionately at my neighbors before passing out in a puddle of Lucky Charms and milk.
In roughly eight and [...]