Mascis & Co. bring back more of the same, and we’re totally fine with it…
Imagine it’s 1997. Bill Clinton is serving his second term in office and Harry Potter receives his acceptance letter to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. More importantly, dance-pop group Aqua releases its debut album. 1997 is the dawning of the age of … Aquarium. Scandinavians Lene Rasted, René Dif, Søren Rasted, and Claus Norreen [...]
Jack White and Jack Lawrence aren’t the only Raconteurs busy these days…
Berlin Babylon is the sort of film you spend time telling your friends about, both because a) the images and slow tracking shots won’t shake from your head, and b) because there’s a solid chance that your friends won’t get around to seeing it because of a plain and simple lack of availability.
This past Wednesday, the Seattle-turned-South Carolina Band of Horses gave a sold out Charlotte, NC crowd just what they wanted: echoing harmonies bathed in reverb and tight guitar, a few songs to tap their feet to and a few songs to belt out along with them.
What do you do for an encore when you are a ridiculously hyped British band that made a decent debut album, which culled from goth, punk, garage rock and freakbeat thrown in for good measure? Why you make a beautifully polished shoegaze, noise pop album produced by Portishead’s Geoff Barrow and Chris Cunningham, of course! Well, at [...]
Ever wonder what the hell The Who were talking about on Tommy? Becca James gives a lil’ lesson or two.
A: Well, if our massive amount of coverage of the Manchester, Tennessee music festival didn’t do it for you, then perhaps the video diaries of Triumph the Insult Comic Dog will. You know, because there’s nothing like a cigar smoking dog asking the members of TV on the Radio how they would they define their [...]