Here’s where we highlight our favorite song titles from the fantastic and prolific Robert Pollard. A new one every weekday! “Dog Licking Baby” comes from Pollard’s partnership with Todd Tobias: Circus Devils. This song was on their 2005 record Five, which was their fourth release. The band’s fifth record, Sgt. Disco was originally planned to come out […]
J Mascis is going to release a cover of Mazzy Star’s classic “Fade into You” as a Record Store Day Black Friday (November 28) limited-edition 7″ . I never would have pegged J to evoke the haunting and delicate qualities of the original, but he nails it. The video below shows J performing the song […]
Capping off a ridiculously productive 2014, Parquet Courts have announced a new album, Content Nausea, as recorded by their occasional alias Parkay Quarts. While the rhythm section sits this record out (one is finishing a degree in math, the other starting a family), vocalist/guitarists Austin Brown and Andrew Savage are on a roll. The first […]
Here’s where we highlight our favorite song titles from the fantastic and prolific Robert Pollard. A new one every weekday! “Chain Wallet Bitch” appears on the Guided by Voices 4-CD box set of unreleased material called Suitcase: Failed Experiments and Trashed Aircraft. The song is 29 seconds long and is credited to the (fictional) artist “The Unfriendly.” Pollard not […]
On December 2, to celebrate the band’s 30th anniversary, Matador Records will release Extra Painful, a deluxe reissue of the 1993 Yo La Tengo album Painful. Painful was the band’s sixth album, and their first for Matador. I was already a loyal fan of Yo La Tengo when it came out, but it was with this album that they became one […]
Here’s where we highlight our favorite song titles from the fantastic and prolific Robert Pollard. A new one every weekday! “Sir Garlic Breath” closes side one of Guided by Voices’ under-appreciated 2013 record English Little League. Pollard installed a studio in his home for the recording of the album, which resulted in a dramatic uptick in his already […]
30 years after the formation of Screaming Trees, the mighty Mark Lanegan has just released his ninth solo album, Phantom Radio. Lanegan’s growling, irascible voice seems barely changed over the years, and his lyrical fascination with spiritual terrors and personal failings remains unique in its unpretentious intelligence. Phantom Radio is produced by LA eclectic-rock veteran […]
Maybe it’s because I’m sitting in a coffeehouse smack-dab in the middle of an ivy-town collegiate setting and they’re streaming my youth over the sound speaker (ahhh: Simple Minds, The Cure, Psychedelic Furs) and not even ironically, I don’t think–although admittedly my irony meter has suffered a bit with age–but regardless, rather than slipping into […]
Here’s a new feature where we highlight our favorite song titles from the fantastic and prolific Robert Pollard. A new one every weekday! Lifeguards is Robert Pollard and original Guided by Voices guitarist/songwriter Doug Gillard. “Paradise Is Not So Bad” shows up on the second Lifeguards record Waving At The Astronauts, which came out in 2011. That […]
Don’t think too hard, just enjoy this new video and song from Perth’s finest rock band Pond. Their new record Man It Feels Like Space Again comes out on January 27. Here’s what the super-stoney cover looks like: …and here’s how they describe their Genre on Facebook: GENRE: Musicband of course. Bruce Springsteen if he […]