Awards
The Retro-Fetishists’ Award for Vinyl-Only EP of the Year
Runners-up: Thomas Edison: Podcast MDCCCLXXVII, Tin foil wrapped around hand-cranked cylinders
Dec 06, 2010
Awards
The Pinkerton Award for Uncomfortably Confessional Songwriting
Runner-up: …better go to Kanye or he may throw a shit-fit.
Dec 06, 2010
Tracks
Mike Shiflet: "Web Over Glen Echo"
Angel hair: a phenomenon as ancient as the first World War, and one that’s perplexed the open-minded more than UFOs,...
Dec 05, 2010
Records
How to Dress Well: Love Remains
“The music that I love to listen to is twofold,” How to Dress Well’s Tom Krell told Pitchfork in an...
Dec 05, 2010
Records
The Black Angels: Phosphene Dream
A phosphene is loosely defined as an optic phenomenon whereby one sees light without light actually entering the eye (thank...
Dec 05, 2010
Records
Alley Boy: Definition of Fuck Shit Mixtape
Yup, Definition of Fuck Shit. The components of Alley Boy’s warning shot should be familiar: synth-heavy, often brooding compositions; gun-talk...
Dec 05, 2010
Records
Forest Swords: Dagger Paths EP
Olde English Spelling Bee seems a label distinctively of Brooklyn and the hypnagogic pop community surrounding Ducktails, Julian Lynch, James...
Dec 05, 2010
Tracks
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart: "Heart in Your Heartbreak"
It took me a while to warm to the Pains Of Being Pure At Heart. Their eponymous debut arrived at...
Dec 03, 2010
Concerts
Dark Dark Dark / Pillars and Tongues / Cross Record
It is a dim, dim, dim cloud that hangs over those last dates-slash-locations on a band’s tour line-up: every-day wear...
Dec 02, 2010