The Fastest Steed On Earth’s It’s Slang For Heroin release is an all instrumental musical montage that travels the gamut of Godspeed You Black Emperor, Mr. Bungle, The Ex and Minus The Bear. Mostly a psycho-carnival carpet ride, the tracks mirror each other in lyric-free quirk-insanity; but some stand alone as predominant with guitar or […]
Attention young emo bands! Knock it off! No one wants or needs to have to memorize any more bands with months, seasons or time periods in their names.
I Google everything. I even Googled myself once, and was ashamed to admit it until I found out the vast majority of my own friends had done the same thing. When I sat down to do a piece on the L.A.- based band, Oslo, I had no idea what I was in for. I like […]
Temporary Res. conceived this Sabbath tribute some eight years ago and has had it on the backburner up until now. They explain its long put-off release as having something to do with the irony of the Osbourne family’s thorny recent resurgence in the cultural ratings; but I doubt there’s much irony; it’s just time to […]
I miss watching The Adventures of Pete and Pete. I think I even cried the day that Artie, “the strongest man in the world,” had to be sent away and leave his Little Viking, Pete, in Wellsville. My first introduction to Iggy Pop was also courtesy of that show, an event that eventually developed into […]
William Elliott Whitmore has given us a timeless record, one that could have been written and played nearly a hundred years ago as easily–even, perhaps, more easily than today. Whitmore’s country-blues are sung over a simple banjo or guitar most of the time, in an eerie voice that it would be a cop-out to compare […]
