Archive for March, 2010
Harlem – ‘Hippies’
The members of Austin band Harlem doesn’t take themselves too seriously. A quick peek at their Matador band biography will give you that as the first line is “jack the ripper was sitting in his kitchen idly fingering through recipes when the idea of naming a rock and roll band harlem first came to him.” [...]
Doctor Scientist – ‘Prehistoric Times’
Doctor Scientist’s first album, Prehistoric Times, is finally out. After a few 7” appearances and a cassette tape, Prehistoric Times builds on what came before, the insano “snort a jumbo tube of PixieStix” combination of synth and guitar work that comes across like a metal The Death Set with additional vocal work by Jim Henson’s [...]
Think About Life – ‘Family’
A good pop album is one where you know the lyrics by the time of your second listen. A great pop album is one where you catch yourself singing the songs alone. With that in mind, Think About Life’s debut album Family is the best pop album since 2006’s Alright, Still by Lily Allen. It’s [...]
Asteroids Galaxy Tour @ Bowery Ballroom
Asteroids Galaxy Tour expressed as mathematical equation would be Dutch Pop + Stax Records – Blackness + psychedelic freak out = Asteroids Galaxy Tour. AGT as you hear it on the tracks is made up of multi-instrumentalist Lars Iversen working with vocalist Mette Lindberg to create fairly uniquer pop music. Their sound is pop with [...]
“Your Youth Will Not Protect You”
ArpLine is a strange beast. While many of their peers in the Brooklyn music scene pay lip service to bands from the seventies referencing those artists which came before almost like a checklist, they seem content to ape whatever is around them. Each band chasing duplication of those original artists losing the details which make [...]
Javelin – ‘No Mas’
Javelin’s debut album No Mas is a collection of excellent entries into the long history of music made into collage of found sounds from created elements sequenced together creating a unique track. This album finds the Rhode Island Born New York Based duo of George Langford andTom Van Buskirk working in the style of other [...]
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – ‘Beat The Devil’s Tattoo’
There are parts of America where as you drive the roads, you see the cities behind you implode in your rear view mirrors as the expanse of the deserts explodes filling your awareness with the view of nothing but the red mesa. Empires have fallen in these lands, empires of people who knew only the [...]
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists – The Brutalist Bricks
Originally Written for GreenShoeLace Ted Leo and the Pharmacists have created one of the best albums this year that I’ll never listen to again. The Brutalist Bricks is, according to the pre-release press interviews, a bit of a return to the roots for Ted, a reexamination of the 90s DC Post Hardcore scene in which [...]
You have to check this out. Last Year’s Model Album Promo
Last Year’s Model has got their branding and message down. Check this promotional video out for their new album. Ominous shots of industrial spaces, a dessicated sink, a fuzzed out city scape made nearly indistinguishable thanks to the amount of video noise, the color filters, and the Vangelis like chords all bring to mind Italian [...]
New Digs.
Just as a heads up, I’m going to be doing some writing for Greenshoelace.com, a music review and news site that also serves as an upcoming show calendar with a way to order tickets. Their music scope is a bit larger than what I cover here, but also there’s a bit less interest in some [...]