Films
Gothkill
You know how – generally speaking – low budgets lead to much more interesting storylines and script, when it comes to movies, tv, etc? I mean, realistically, the director has to make up for the...
Chieftains - Live at Montreux 1997
A DVD of the Chieftains live is a bit of a tough thing to review for me. Because? Well, for starters, I think fans of the Chieftains know who they are and what they are about, and probably p...Features
Six Organs Of Admittance, Bush Hall, London, 04-12-09
With two diminutive Christmas trees illuminating either side of the stage of the vaudevillian interior Bush Hall, it wouldn’t be wrong to say that the music and style of Ben Chasny seemed a li...
John Darnielle Interview
Why these bible verses? It’s back and forth, case by case - there isn’t one “why these taken together”; each one has its own relation to the so...Songs
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Bead - Dinowalrus
Strange weirdo punk/disco/vintage electronica/whatever from Brooklyn. Compelling.
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Darling Dear - Little Fish
What a voice! It sounds like this band is inevitably going to be the next big thing.
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Grey Sparkle Finnish Pig - BELLFLUR
New band from DC. Really interesting production.
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Etemenaki - The Beast Of The Apocalypse
Black metal from the Netherlands. Pretty cool song, primitive + demented.
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The Strangers
Souvenir Album
Shadoks
The Strange were an underground art-rock band from Olympia, Washington and Souvenir Album is a re-release of the 1974 release. This is all very interesting, but what it all means I don...
Albums
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Bran Flakes
I Have Hands
Illegal Art
While I Have Hands has some really interesting songs and samples on it, I can’t help but feel there is something missing from the album. Like some sort of central concept or basic id...
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Vampire Weekend
Contra
XL
Vampire Weekend are kind of interesting politically. The music is great, and it was the number one album on the country this week, so there is all of that, which I will talk about in a bit but t...
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KK Null
Oxygen Flash
Neurot
KK Null has worked with basically the spectrum of experimental noise/ dark ambient musicians since his musical beginnings in the early 1980s. When you look you see a list that includes Merzbow,...
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Blops
Del Volar de la Palomas
Shadoks
Okay I have a problem with this album and it is not in the sound or quality of the music, or anything to do with the band or the music, which is rather quite lovely. But what it has to do with ...
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Vlor
Six Winged
Silber
With guests ranging from Lycia’s Mike VanPortfleet, Jon DeRosa (Arktika) and Jessica Bailiff; Brian John Mitchell’s experimental group Vlor has been part of the bedrock foundation of Silber Med...
