Archive for September, 2010
Teengirl Fantasy – ’7 AM’
I’ve long been a fan of the Oberlin College duo, Teengirl Fantasy. I first saw them perform during the 2008 CMJ Music Festival in a community art center at 1 PM. Logan Takahashi and Nick Weiss were sitting on the ground with their keyboards in front of them and their eyes didn’t leave their instruments [...]
The New Belle & Sebastian Track…
could really use a comma in that title somewhere. Belle & Sebastian – “Come On Sister” by Some Kind of Awesome
The Howlies coming back with Stunned!
Stunned EP by Howlies The Howlies are set to follow up their 2009 debut album Trippin’ With Howlies with a slightly dirtier EP. Stunned sees them continue to evolve their combination of 1950s and 60s pazz and jop. Not quite dirty enough to be embraced by the garage punk set, but too old fashioned be [...]
The Ladies – ‘Six More Reasons to Hate The Ladies’
Six More Reasons to Hate The Ladies is like waking up after a party to find that you’ve pissed the couch only to find out that you didn’t piss the couch, someone else did and you just slept in it. Scuzzy, dirty, filthy, snotty, bratty intentionally obnoxious and you fucking love it. (NSFW Cover after [...]
These Are Powers and Gatekeeper Free Show
I really liked Gatekeeper’s album Optimus Maximus when I got a hold of it but have missed several opportunities to see them live due to scheduling or financial issues. Since I’m not booked for this night, I may try to make it out. I don’t particularly care for These Are Powers so I may dip [...]
“The German metal band Rammstein even sold a set of sex toys.”
Rob Walker at NYT has an interesting article on the current encroachment of merchandise as income object for musicians rather than music. The thought of musician now having to add skills of being a curator of objets d’art in addition to booking, marketing, social media networking, and things that are no longer important; like being [...]
Mudhoney, Pissed Jeans, White Hills @ Bowery Ballroom 9/4/10
Full Flickr Set. (lots of good crowd shots. See if you’re there) It must have been 1991. I can’t think of any other time it could be. Bush, the first one, was still president, only nerds had heard of the internet and Nirvana had changed just changed everything. I was in high school at the [...]