Invisible Voices

Yes, we all hear them. The invisible voices that tell us to fire the missle launcher into the idiot driving in front of us that’s going 25 miles an hour in a 45 mph zone. Or the voice that tells us to snag that horrid wig off of great aunt Colleen’s head at the Christmas […]

Steve Gunn :: Way Out Weather

Steve Gunn makes music that is simple sounding on the surface, but underneath there’s a complexity hiding under the breezy sway and summertime shine. He’s an incredible guitarist that shows he can handle pretty much anything that comes at him. On his latest, Way Out Weather, it’s all about southern jangle with an east coast […]

Thom Yorke :: Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes

Out of the blue on what was thought to be just another normal Thursday afternoon Thom Yorke dropped a brand new solo album. No real warning, other than some random tweets of some mysterious white vinyl spinning. Thom and Radiohead are no strangers to the surprise release, with In Rainbows and The King of Limbs […]

Off The Air

I’m not sure why this thought crossed my mind, but the other day I was thinking about television when I was kid. Growing up in the 80s television was still this thing that would eventually end at the end of the day. You could stay up late and watch Carson, Letterman, then after that there […]

Julian Casablancas+The Voidz :: Tyranny

So what happened to Julian Casablancas, or has he always been really weird? I guess there’s always been an element of weirdness to the guy, even back when he was the king of New York cool. That weirdness still felt slick and tough, that is until 2006 with The Strokes’ First Impressions of Earth. While […]

Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes….thoughts?

Friday, September 26th seemed like just another Friday. Slagging through another Friday work day with the glimmer of hope being some tasty craft beers sitting in my fridge waiting for me to compensate the blahs from just another work day. It was sunny out, too. So that helped. But then all of a sudden I […]

Why So Serious?

Oh, poor Ian Curtis. What happened in your life? What made you hang yourself in your kitchen? Anyone taking their life is such a sad, lonely, and desperate thing to do. For those that call it cowardly, I say good day to you sir or ma’am. You’re obviously living a life void of any real […]

Whirr :: Sway

Whirr’s Sway doesn’t deviate from what they started on last year’s Around EP. That album replaced their debut’s more upbeat punk aesthetic, and gave us instead a curtain of dark melancholy. Slow, gray swaths of gothic dream pop and almost antagonistic, visceral shoegaze. Those songs were as brooding and heavy as anything you’d find on […]

Tweedy :: Sukierae

Isn’t it every dad’s dream to someday play in a band with his son? I know I often think about how cool it would be to have my son playing drums to some little ditty I wrote over a cup of coffee at the kitchen table. And it wouldn’t have to be my son. One […]

Cymbals Eat Guitars : Lose

Cymbals Eat Guitars have intrigued me since the first time I heard their epic “…And The Hazy Sea” way back in 2009. A mix of shoegaze-y guitar noise and early 90s indie rock aesthetic that showed they weren’t afraid to wear their influences on their sleeves while still sounding decidedly unique. While their debut Why […]