Archive for July, 2009

Coming To Your Town: Wavves, Mos Def, Atlas Sound

By on July 29th, 2009

Who’s coming to your town? Find out now!

Mountain Goats look to the good book on The Life of the World to Come

By on July 29th, 2009

The Bible for indie rock fans?

Green Day drags the Idiot to theaters…

By on July 29th, 2009

Lock your doors. Bolt your windows. And turn off the lights! Something “punky” this way comes…

The Most Serene Republic… and the ever expanding roadtrip

By on July 29th, 2009

Milton, Ontario band The Most Serene Republic is leaving home (and country) for a whirlwind tour of North America in support of its latest album. Released on July 14th, …And The Ever Expanding Universe marked the the band’s third album in just four years with label Arts & Crafts. So far, the result has been [...]

Cinema Sounds: Touch

By on July 29th, 2009

An odd but entertaining film, Touch is just one of the many forgotten 90’s comedies that would snugly fit into one of Comedy Central’s late afternoon movie line-ups, probably wedged between Rolling Kansas and PCU. It may not end up being your favorite movie, but knowing who’s behind the music makes it just a little more fun to sit through.

Silversun Pickups play secret show in NYC ahead of APW

By on July 28th, 2009

Say for example you live in New York City and you’re a fan of the Los Angeles rock group known as Silversun Pickups. Then, say for example, you weren’t going to this weekend’s All Points West Music Festival, but really want to see them (or are going and want to see them again!). Well, you [...]

The Mars Volta haunts the fall season… with a tour

By on July 28th, 2009

What started with a buzzing performance at Bonnaroo last month and continued with the release of its hot comeback album, Octahedron, The Mars Volta shows no signs of slowing down. Instead the afro-sporting jamboree plans to march ahead all the way into the early autumn with another string of dates. Centered around forthcoming festival appearances at Outside [...]

OohLaLA brings the French to L.A.

By on July 28th, 2009

You won’t find any freedom fries here!

Album Review: Hercules and Love Affair – Sidetracked

By on July 28th, 2009

★★★½☆

Here Butler collects 13 songs that he enjoys (or was influenced by) and gives them the remix treatment. The result is something akin to Hercules and Love Affair, only not quite as compelling. Therein lies the difficulty with judging a dance mix: You’re not dealing with original material, so you’ve got to let your shoulders do the grading.