Music
Localized: Wildcat Strike and The New Electric Sound
Starting with the crunchy licks of everyman band The Pentagraham Crackers, SLUG Localized will heat up with the running beats and toothed refrains of Wildcat Strike before surf-rockers The New Electric Sound cast their net of sensual grooves over every man and woman in the crowd. This 21+ show happens Friday, Aug. 16 at Urban Lounge, and doors open at 9 p.m. If you’re a sad, lonely ragamuffin stuck at home, check out the show through the live stream on gigviz.com. … read more
Adam Ant @ The Complex 07.23 with Prima Donnas
The man is on top of the world on his own terms and he seems happy about it. No bosses. No record labels. No shitty deals and scams. Just a man and his creative will to do something bigger. … read more
David Bazan @ Big Cartel 07.23
Seeing someone I’ve admired from afar in such a cozy setting came welcome, as Tuesday night I found myself in a room with David Bazan no more than 15 feet away, sharing the space with around 50 people for his Living Room Tour at The Big Cartel. … read more
Pitchfork Music Festival 2013
Another Pitchfork Music Festival has come and gone, leaving in its summer wake a fantastic tangle of performances, pictures, #hashtags, tweets, Instagrams and glistening memories. … read more
Review: Act Rights – Sweat Equity
Act Rights are too drunk to be the Raconteurs and they’re not drunk enough to be the Black Lips. … read more
Review: Infectious Garage Disease – Self Titled
Released in that pivotal time when longhairs started hitting the matinees and punx copped to liking Slayer (Hanneman RIP), IGD is as much Suicidal as it is Meatmen. … read more
Review: Hell – III
I’d heard of the one-man doom cult Hell at different points over the past few years, but I was never sufficiently interested to actually give the band a listen. … read more
Review: Georgia’s Horse – Weather Codes
I haven’t heard an album more Western than Weather Codes since Spindrift’s Classic Soundtracks Vol. 1 was released. … read more
Review: Frank Turner – Tape Deck Heart
Have you ever wondered what an enervating British punk/folk rocker going through a mid-life crisis sounds like? … read more
Review: Estrangers – Season of 1000 Colors
By every merit, this is a conventional summer-nostalgia pop rock album. … read more
Review: Drug Church – Paul Walker
The album is called Paul Walker, and there are songs named “Deconstructing Snapcase” and “Reading Youtube Comments.” … read more
Review: Deap Vally – Get Deap EP
Deap Vally’s first EP sounds like a shitty version of Dead Weather. … read more
