Monthly Archive:: November 2014
video
Can a girl get a witness? Because the mesmerizing moves Mahaut Mondino slides into during this video for “The Great Elements,” which is on her debut EP out
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new book
It kind of started with Ryan Richardson expressing interest in seeing Spot’s pictures of the Black Flag Polliwog Park show. That was the one where, on July 22 1979,
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reissue
Ever since Amy invited me to contribute to Sound It Out, I have wanted to write about the upcoming reissue of Songs: Ohia’s Didn’t It Rain. I have avoided
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video
Go-Go in DC, ghost riding in Oakland, and La Sape in the Congo—it feels like a minor miracle that any regional subcultures still exist. Excuse the Thomas Frank
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in the studio
Doug Martsch was kind enough to send us some photos he took this week of of Built to Spill in the studio. They recorded at Jackpot! Studio and
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video
It was such a pleasant surprise to have new Kim Deal video show up in my inbox just now. It’s for “Biker Gone”, the fifth release from Kim’s
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video
There’s something bittersweet about Amen Dunes (aka Damon McMahon) that’s kind of hard to explain. Words weave in and out of his songs so that you can grab
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new music
Is it too soon to talk about the best albums of 2014? Because with Manipulator, which came out at the end of the summer, Ty Segall turned in
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new music
Do you like tripped-out fucked-up psychedelic punk garage rock with indecipherable, highly digitized vocals? Then you have come to the right place! According to their press release, Trans
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new music
Will Giraffage‘s track “Chocolate,” to quote Tom Waits, “change your shorts, change your life, change your life, change into a nine-year-old Hindu boy, get rid of your wife?”
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