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A Twisted Romp Through The Curious Mansion Of House & Parish
The story behind New York City’s House And Parish has not been written yet. The characters and plot have been rolled out like a Hollywood red carpet. During the late 90s, much like the Rat or Brat pack, half of H&P strutted atop the fertile mountains of the independent music scene read more »
The Black And White Album
Taking slight cues from young weirdoes assembling queer music with asexual robots in the basement of their parent’s homes, The Hives shred through every colorful sound genre, pepper-spraying ears with a flashy mixture of Queen, Funkadelic and Motörhead that ultimately strikes like a birthday party surprise read more »
One, One-Thousand
From the initial thump of “Pristine Fields,” the beginning crackle of quixotic blitzkrieg from New York’s House & Parish, ears immediately determine the magnificent possibilities from this great collision of boulders once flying high in the 90s indie rock orbit on asteroids named Texas Is The Reason, The Promise Ring and The Gloria Record read more »
Live – Minus The Bear @ Showbox | Seattle
Minus The Bear closed the door on a seven-week tour Saturday night, warming up a freezing bunch of shuddering Seattleites snuggled together in the Showbox Theater read more »
Prinzhorn Dance School
Welcome to the Prinzhorn Dance School for especially special students, appropriately named after master quack Dr. Hans Prinzhorn, a slippery script writer who nabbed artistic goods from his brainly challenged patients, all of whom contributed hypnotic marvels to this thud of weird read more »
Grass Geysers…Carbon Clouds
It’s been four years since Philly/Brooklyn magicians Enon pulled Hocus Pocus out from their Dr. Seuss hats. On October 9 the grand masters at Touch And Go knocked out Enon’s fourth dance-riot-odyssey, Grass Geysers…Carbon Clouds, a great example of experimentation and devotion to the progression of independently created sound read more »
Attack Decay Sustain Release
Although heavy on the intergalactic sabotage, Attack Decay Sustain Release slithers into the senses with quite the snarky industrial strut, like how the great vampire Peter Murphy might walk out of a smoking U.F.O. All prickly and magnetic, like the swagger on “I Believe” read more »
Maritime – A Confident Cruise To The Victorious Land Of Zero Expectation
At the dawn of emo, The Promise Ring from Milwaukee, Wisconsin were unfairly thrust onto the cover of every smutty rag from Tiger Beat to National Geographic, and after releasing four albums, eventually collapsed under the ill-favored tag of indie rock’s young crusaders of the next sonic salvation. Their beer and cheese flavored love anthems exploded with high caloric slabs of winsome vocals, honeybunch lyrics and harefooted guitars that wrangled hearts with flippant potency read more »
Total Magique
Death From Above WHO motherfucker? The crispy sparkle of electrocuting guitars on We Are Wolves’ Total Magique ripple flesh with pellets of hellfire. The shrapnel stings worse than a swarm of suicidal yellow jackets en route to your butt hole read more »
Anyway You Choose To Give It
When I listen to the sizzlin’ new EP Anyway You Choose To Give It from The Black Ghosts, I feel deathly sorry for anybody without the luxury of owning an operational pair of feet read more »
