Records
Dominique Leone: Dominique Leone
Coming fresh off a couple of articles where our staff took to task Pitchfork’s ubiquity/authority via coverage of their annual...
Aug 07, 2008
Records
Booka Shade: The Sun and The Neon Light
Arena-sized electronic music hasn’t had the greatest go in the noughties. After peaking in the mid-‘90s with Orbital, Underworld, and...
Aug 07, 2008
Festivals
A Fundamental Reiteration of Everything Clay Posited Because I’m Moving to Portland and Can’t Formulate Many Original Thoughts
I’ll fundamentally reiterate everything Clay posited, but more importantly, through Clay’s account, I realized that at Pitchfork I had witnessed...
Aug 04, 2008
Tracks
Whatfor: "Sooner Late Than Never"
Now that its former biggest attraction, Brett Favre, has retired, Wisconsin’s tourist bureau would be well served to spill some...
Aug 01, 2008
Festivals
A Few Notes On My Continued Press Accreditation to the Pitchfork Music Festival, or, Holy Fuck, Everyone Actually is a Critic
Despite murmurings from various corners of the internet, gleamed via blogs, boards, and reviews I’ve personally written in various states...
Jul 31, 2008
Records
Paavoharju: Laulu Laakson Kukista
The everything-but-the-kitchen-sink approach to instrumentation is typically associated with lo-fi aesthetics. Paavoharju are out to change that. Even more than...
Jul 31, 2008
Records
The Tallest Man on Earth: Shallow Graves
Son of a bitch. I probably would have been handcuffed into talking about Bob Dylan even if the Tallest Man...
Jul 31, 2008
Records
Our Sleepless Forest: Our Sleepless Forest
Funny thing: Our Sleepless Forest drops from the sky without more than a shred of context—a paltry bio of its...
Jul 31, 2008
Records
Crystal Antlers: EP EP
This is a tricky behemoth to categorize. I’ve scoured the internet for a fitting genre tag to place on this...
Jul 31, 2008