Records
Windy and Carl: Songs For The Broken Hearted
Love songs can compel one to do crazy, bold things; they seem to imbue relationships with magic. But love is...
Oct 15, 2008
Records
I Heart Lung: Interoceans
The way those anticipatory drum rolls and lightly distorted, ringing guitar chords open I Heart Lung’s Interoceans, almost anything could...
Oct 15, 2008
Records
Her Space Holiday: XOXO, Panda And The New Kid Revival
Well isn’t this just adorable? Vaguely Halsey-esque cover art and song titles so cutely precise you’d think Marc Bianchi had...
Oct 15, 2008
Tracks
Dressy Bessy: "In Your Headphones"
Boy, that Pipettes dustup sure was much ado about nothing, huh? Turns out they weren’t the culmination of post-modern ironic...
Oct 14, 2008
Tracks
Kevin Rudolph f/ Lil' Wayne: "Let It Rock"
If you’re like me, having read ClayDom PurdAcola’s visceral mixdown of Tha Carter III you may be a little...
Oct 14, 2008
Festivals
Outside Lands 2008
:: Photos courtesy sfoutsidelands.com
This year’s Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival, in segments:
On the way to...
Oct 14, 2008
Records
Noah23: Rock Paper Scissors
“Hail Mary, Hail Mary Mary Mary…” Guess the beat. Sunday I somehow found myself standing by the side of a...
Oct 10, 2008
Records
Department of Eagles: In Ear Park
Where their stylistic differences beg a disconnect, I think it’s appropriate that Grizzly Bear guitarist Daniel Rossen’s Department of Eagles...
Oct 10, 2008
Records
Marnie Stern: This Is It and I Am It and You Are It and So Is That and He Is It and She Is It and It Is It and That Is That
You know that part on, well, most of Surfer Rosa (1988) where Joey Santiago makes like a disoriented flea on...
Oct 10, 2008