While everyone has gone off to work, I am at home in the thick of Slothathon 2009 and growing impatient by the moment. Soundtracking today are Connecticut’s Eula, whose Fill Your Heart EP is out now-ish.
This is pretty much your standard-issue 90s-style quiet-loud-quiet-LOUD indie rock tune, but I’m just seriously feeling that vibe today. There’s [...]

At my housewarming party over the weekend, I busted out my tape recorder, locked the doors, and made my guests sing “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” Actually, they picked the song, I just taped it. Anyway, thanks to my guests, who did this relatively sober, but no thanks to my laptop, whose battery died during [...]

I can’t tell if I’m in love or just swayed by the hype, but Those Dancing Days is on heavy rotation lately. Is it a bad thing that I can’t differentiate between emotion and persuasion, or more specifically, is it about refusing either? Does it even matter at all? Should I embrace this, gulp, liminality? [...]

Rest assured, I have not gone soft: when I heard the news about Polvo reuniting, I freaked out like a schoolgirl. Better news there could not be. But this post is not about Polvo, sort of. As many of you know (or maybe you don’t so here’s a lesson), Dave and Steve from the band [...]

While I appear to be in the small, small camp that enjoys most, if not all, of Chris Leo’s creative output, this performance of [what I argue to be one of] the Greatest Songs Written By A New Jersey Band In The Past Fifteen-ish Years fits the clingy, damp sensations of today.
Because it’s that kind [...]

Saturday I traveled to D.C. to interview Marc Masters for my new program, and took in the release party for No Wave. The bands were great (Dark Sea Dream, Vapour Theories & Kohoutek), as well as the DJ — Mark C of Live Skull, who brought every no wave release in existence, and them some [...]

Dear New York Times, I think you may need to check your photo file. Are these guys really in the New England Patriots, or some metal band being hyped on Pitchfork?
In other news, ahem. Hello. It’s been a while, hasn’t it? I took the final bits of my winter break (I don’t recall it ever [...]

In the process of cleaning up some of my record collection last week, I stumbled upon the self-titled Sea Saw album — Trevor Kampmann’s keyboard-rich, lo-fi-laden pop project from the 1990’s. My mind wandered, late-night Googling ensued; now here I am with HollAND’s new album, Love Fluxus (Teenbeat), blasting out of the stereo.
Several cousins [...]

In lieu of asking the age-old question, “Why?”, here is what they call “content”:
» Mission:300 was awesome, I managed to bowl one decent game, and then someone committed a serious party foul. Not the first time for this particular dude, either. Y’know, I happen to like a lot of graffiti and find the subculture fascinating. [...]

Guv’ner, “Almond Roca” (From Hard For Measy For You)
There’s a fine line between being an asshole and a smart aleck, though I’m never sure how to exactly make the distinction. Songs like this aren’t much help, either. Yet, this is what I liked best about Guv’ner. Through the course of three records (one for Ecstatic [...]