Monthly Archive:: September 2014
video
Growing up, I always thought of San Jose as the place where you went for plumbing supplies or muffler repair, not as the spawning ground of a drone
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video
Philip Selway plays drums and provides backing vocals for Radiohead. He’s also just about to release his second gorgeous and atmospheric solo record. It’s called Weatherhouse and it’s out October
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chestnut
Being a part of the Sound It Out experience brings the promise of both hearing and writing about new music, which is an aural island I’d floated away
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new music
The Chocolate Watchband. Blue Öyster Cult. Meat Puppets. The Jesus Lizard. Many bands could never live down such an absurd, goofy juxtaposition of words; only some can live
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in the studio
In the present day, San Francisco’s Dirty Ghosts comprise singer/guitarist Allyson Baker, drummer Tony Sevener, and bassist Erin McDermott. But their history is a complicated one: the
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new music
There are only so many more-or-less perfect albums out there and, for me, one of them is The Byrds’ “Sweetheart of the Rodeo.” Maybe it’s because it was
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new music
Remember Smoosh? They were the adorable sisters out of Seattle that released their first record in 2004 when they were 10 and 12, and got a lot of
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new music
Go ahead, ask the question: “Has Daniel Lanois made a live EDM album?” The answer is no — or at least, his new Flesh and Machine isn’t that
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news
Legendary New Zealand musician Peter Gutteridge died earlier this week, at the age of 53. Gutteridge was a dedicated musical explorer, and one of the key figures in the
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new music
God, I love Pond. They’re from Perth, Australia, they share a couple of members with Tame Impala, and I assume they smoke copious amounts of weed. If, like
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