Records
Fulton Lights: The Way We Ride
There’s some irony to the notion that Fulton Lights’ self-titled debut, with its meticulous arrangements and carefully arranged thematic consistency,...
Sep 24, 2008
Records
Mercury Rev: Snowflake Midnight
Mercury Rev doesn’t need fans; Mercury Rev needs believers, true blue acolytes following the whims and insecurities and eccentricities of...
Sep 22, 2008
Records
Bar Kokhba: Lucifer: Book of Angels Vol. 10
I’ll admit the idea of John Zorn scribbling full notations on staff paper or tapping the music stand with his...
Sep 22, 2008
Records
Peter Bjorn and John: Seaside Rock
Did this band just say they were going to make a self-consciously bad record, and actually really totally decided to...
Sep 22, 2008
Records
NOMO: Ghost Rock
Fela Kuti: Pan-Africanist pioneer of Afrobeat; purveyor of vitriolic song-rants against the Nigerian government telling of the “Expensive Shit” (filled...
Sep 22, 2008
NBHcasts
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Enjoy your head combusting from so much DIYishness to the sounds of: Dirt Dress, Women, Thomas Function, Rae Spoon, French Quarter, Hospitals…
Sep 21, 2008
Tracks
The Shining Hour: "Before You Know It"
The Ramones’ promise that anyone can make rock music inheres not in the DIY laptop studio but at the...
Sep 19, 2008
Articles
Gétatchèw Mekurya & The Ex + Guests :: 11 Ethio-Punk Songs
It’s been nearly forty years since Ethiopia boiled over with the revolutionary politics that claimed thousands of innocent lives and...
Sep 19, 2008
Records
Okkervil River: The Stand Ins
It wasn’t without some trepidation that I agreed to review the new Okkervil River jam. The last time I ventured...
Sep 19, 2008