San Francisco’s All Teeth and Knuckles is embarking in a mere few hours on its semi-national tour (they go as far east as Chicago). We met up at their practice space in West Oakland, which is home to DJ and synth master Giovanni De La Cruz, and where band founder and lead vocalist Patric “Sick […]
The neo-retro electro-funk phenomenon Chromeo recently headlined at San Francisco’s Mezzanine. Along with Flosstradamus, Codebreaker and Frisco Disco DJ duo Richie Panic and Jeffrodesiac, the max capacity show was free of charge thanks to a massive sponsorship from the car company turned music promotion agency, Scion. Prior to the performance, Eric Kozak of Denver’s DJ […]
London-based Gallows are about the most exhilarating thing happening to punk and rock at the moment; and Americans—I’m here to tell you they are infiltrating. References to Gallows are becoming common enough in U.S.-based publications that people often have an “I’ve heard that name, but I don’t know why” reaction. It’s time to embrace Gallows […]
Hailing from the southside of the Windy City, Rhymesayers’ newest recruit is a feisty b-girl with a b-boy sensibility. “I’ve battled a lot of people,” says Psalm One in a phone interview, “and people think that if you have a vagina you’ve got to work three times harder. But I don’t care. I love a […]
Montreal’s Land of Talk has not only lived up to its name for some time now, with countless interviews online, in print and on video, the three-piece has been a case study for word-of-mouth promotion as fans and journalists blog and talk about their love of the band. But sometimes life has a way of […]
Life’s been a wild ride for Smoke or Fire of late. First off, the band had to miss several dates on a recent Western tour. Having noticed some oddness in the steering mechanism, the band sought advice from a mechanic. They were duly alarmed to discover they were dangerously close to abruptly losing the ability […]
The guys in Cat-A-Tac were in a celebratory mood this particular Sunday. Or should I say, recovering from weekend celebrations and passing on my offer for some cold PBRs. Andy Tennant (vocals/guitar) had just finished finals, and Jim McTurnan (vocals/guitars) had received news that their debut full length Past Lies and Former Lives (Needlepoint Records) […]
Last November the Lucky Stiffs were throwing down some punk rock moves at a strip club where their show took place during CMJ in New York, receiving praise for being one of a number of bands that are contributing to a movement in music, “Punk is the new … punk.” They were also celebrating the […]
Stunned and amazed by No, Not Me, Never —which has already been killing our ear-muffs for days—The Photo Atlas shined at this year’s South By Southwest (SXSW) music-biz convention, projecting several stellar engagements last week for hundreds of sweat-soaked revelers. The foursome made a crippling impression at this same festival last year, wowing Pure Volume […]
Shag is the pop culture icon of our time. You may not recognize the name, but you had to have seen his animated characters one way or another – around town at a store that sells his suave Cocktail Bar soap products, a Paul Frank Frank handbag with a 50’s style woman riding a Vespa […]
