Music
Worlds Inside Worlds: Say No! To Architecture and Composite Songcraft
Don DeLillo once wrote, “There is a world inside the world.” For Allen Roizman’s musical output, this couldn’t be more true. Say No! To Architecture has been crafting lived-in soundscapes of unidentifiable sources and layers upon layers of sampled noises from Plainview, New York, for close to 10 years now. … read more
A Radically Relevant Declaration: Chatting with The Pop Group’s Mark...
On Feb.19, the Pop Group rereleased their phenomenal 1980 album, For How Long Do We Tolerate Mass Murder?, and the 1979 single, We are Prostitutes on their own Y Label, distributed through Rough Trade. These releases boast some of the best of The Pop Group’s signature expression of antagonistic post-punk that is influenced by funk, jazz and dub. … read more
Review: The Come n’ Go – Tumbling Heights
The Come n’ Go = Dr. Feelgood + The Jackets + The Gories
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Review: The KVB – Of Desire
The KVB = NOIR + Psychic TV + Alien Sex Fiend
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Review: Hospital Ships – The Past Is Not A Flood
Hospital Ships = Youth Lagoon + Papercuts + The Flaming Lips
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Review: Sievehead – Into the Blue
Sievehead = A Place To Bury Strangers + Iceage + Diat
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Review: Shearwater – Jet Plane and Oxbow
Shearwater = Daughn Gibson / Damien Jurado + Songs: Ohia
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Review: Night Beats – Who Sold My Generation
Night Beats = Allah-Las + Thee Oh Sees + Temples
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Review: Dream Koala – Exodus
Dream Koala = Ta-ku / Tropics
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Local Review: Your Meteor – Byzantium
Laying back, staring up at the vast night sky and thinking about the mysteries of life—that’s where I find myself every time I put this album on. Music works best when it’s treated like a rollercoaster of emotions, and that’s exactly the kind of ride that Your Meteor have constructed with their latest LP. Syncopated rhythms, interweaving guitar lines, playful melodic vocals—Byzantium is full of it all and much more. … read more
Review: Your Friend – Gumption
Your Friend = Lost Lander + Daughter + Local Natives
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Local Review: Foster Body – Moving Display
Foster Body = Gang of Four + Jad Fair + Erase Errata … read more
