Records

Endless Boogie: Focus Level

Yours truly was first exposed to the juggernaut that is Endless Boogie on the fourth night of Yo La Tengo’s...

Festivals

80/35 Music Festival

:: Addenda by Craig Eley_
:: Photos by Andre Perry, Craig Eley, Todd Olmstead, and Emily Miller

It was Friday...

Records

Women: Women

From the gracious desks of Flemish Eye, the label that some five years ago gave us Chad VanGaalen’s debut, Infiniheart...

Records

Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra and Tra-La-La Band: 13 Blues for 13 Moons

Efrim Menuck’s spiritual adviser has always been the street crazy. Their sandwich boards have appeared on his bands’ albums covers,...

Records

Alltruisms: Clusterbombs

Clusterbombs is a fucking asshole of a record: brash, mean, stupid, good. Like, why drop a line like “We’re hanging...

Records

Icy Demons: Miami Ice

Egad: yet another form of entirely non-committal rock, one in which “acting like monkeys” (or calling oneself Icy Demons, or...

Tracks

The Verve: "Love Is Noise"

Oh, hello there, Verve! You’ve been away for roughly a decade now, so let’s see, what’s happened since? Well,...

Tracks

Hans Zimmer & James Newton Howard: "Why So Serious?"

Three years ago, Christian Bale hang-glided into the camera with an ominous playing card in his bat-pouch, flooding screens with...

Tracks

Lykke Li: "Little Bit"

What does it even mean to be a good pop song anymore? The layers of irony, pretension and referentiality run...