PHEW! This sold out show at the Ogden had a line longer than I’d seen for sometime, although I’m not sure just how long because I couldn’t actually see the end and didn’t have the patience to follow the trail endlessly. Instead I took my adventurous self to the Lounge on Colfax for a seat […]
Deep Thinkers are an outfit out of Kansas City, MO; ya know, the home of the notorious Tech Ni9e? However, contrary to the popularity of the infamous Blood-gone-good’s grimy gangsta/ hatchet man music, the guys from Thinkers bring a decidedly more Bay area by way of New York boom bap sound and lyricism to their […]
Soundgarden side-project Hater proudly and belatedly offers a sequel to its self-titled ’94 debut called The 2nd; and a hauntingly fierce return of Chewbacca-Sasquatch Rock it is, baby! This re-generation of raw power welcomes us back to the Pacific NW garage-blues simplicity and intensity that spawned almost everything we came to know for well over […]
I love pop music. Better yet, I love crappy pop music. Give me NSYNC, JoJo, Britney Spears, or anything of that nature and I will shake my way-past-middle-school-age ass all night long. (I even have a great case for why Ashlee Simpson’s Autobiography was possibly the best album of 2004, but I won’t go into […]
Andrew Morgan is the newest artist to enter the world of orch-pop, with his debut album Misadventures in Radiology. I like a good album title and this one cracks me up. It of course begs the question: What sort of misadventures can you have in radiology? I’m not sure, but my imagination runs rampant. Perhaps […]
Upon inserting their self-titled disc, one could take The Sights for a White Stripes rip-off band, being from Detroit and all, but to not move past the first track would be to do this band a massive injustice. There’s a taste of Jack White in Eddie Baranek’s vocals, to be sure, but there’s a whole […]
It’s kind of habit for me to not read, or to read as little press as I can about a band before I get to really listen to their music, and then refer later to the stack of paper as I prepare for an interview. The same process was used for Dogs Die In Hot […]
Sin City (2005, Frank Miller/Robert Rodriguez) Frank Miller is one of my favorite visual artists in any medium, and Robert Rodriguez has continued to impress me since I saw El Mariachi in a high school Spanish class (thank you, Sra. Bradford!), so I will admit right away that you are not going to get a […]
Traveling alone in a car for two days I decided to use the new release by Soilwork to keep me company. Putting the Stabbing The Drama in my CD player I had no idea of what I’d be getting myself into. I soon found out. Intensity stormed through my speakers, whipping at my ears and […]
I always feel special when I purchase or am given something that is “Limited Edition.” It’s like having 1 of only 500,000 of an EP or LP makes it special, or gives it extra meaning or something. Generally though, one visit to EBay will quickly quash any thoughts that what I have is “Special.” (It’s […]
