October 2010
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Interview with Math the Band
Check it out! I got in touch with Justine from Providence’s Math the Band and asked questions about … Math the Band! Here’s a video, then read some words.
I don’t know what phrases like “post-rock” or “nerd-core” mean. Make up your own genre! How would you describe your music to an alien?
8-bit pop punk, electro-pop with a sense of humor, beep...
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King Khan & the Shrines / Gentleman Jesse & his...
LiveFastDie gettin’ all Ramones on yo’ ass.
Lost a guitar strap, but kept it goin’ like a pro. You should’ve seen the band teamwork utilized to get the strap back on. Brought a tear to my eye.
Not sure what the deal with the party shirt/Jersey beanie/mustache/sunglasses combo is about, but … I guess I’m fer it?
I arrived at the Bell House late, I’m...
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Guest Contribution: Scion Garage Fest in Lawrence,...
Part three of our coverage of Lawrence, Kansas’ Scion Garage Fest has arrived! If you missed the first two, check them out. As we left guest contributor / rock’n’roll mercenary Leigh last, she’d just caught the Clean knock around the Granada…
As we got closer to the witching hour I began to reflect upon Garage Fest thus far, deciding that, as a general rule: if I can...
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Guest Contribution: Scion Garage Fest in Lawrence,...
Yesterday, we brought you part one of our coverage of October 2nd’s Scion Garage Fest. The one-day shit-show featuring all (well, most … a lot) of your favorite garage-punk assholes tearing up Lawrence, Kansas was free, but, since it was in Lawrence, Kansas, what the hell was I supposed to do but hope someone else would go and write something up for me? Enter Leigh. When we last left...
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Guest Contribution: Scion Garage Fest in Lawrence,...
You might have heard about that Scion Garage Fest in Lawrence, Kansas that went down a couple weeks ago. As an until-recently-unemployed person, I wasn’t able to make it down to catch the insane (and free) lineup of gnarled garage-punk (though the fact that most of these bands have done free shows in Brooklyn in the recent past and probably will again did make this a bit easier to take). But...
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Jon Spencer Blues Explosion's Orange keeps me from...
It feels like it’s become a rare thing for a garage rock record to groove so well and feel like genuine funk. But I guess for the Blues Explosion that’s not really a big deal, since that’s all they do. Basically every track on this record rules. The album opener, “Bellbottoms,” displays such a tightness between the musicians, with Russel Simins knockin’ the...
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WatchThis looks really cool. Of the groups featured in the film, I’m familiar only with Nissenenmondai, but pretty much everything that appears in this trailer has something interesting going on with it. There’s a world premiere happening Friday, October 29th at the Asia Society Museum in New York.
As they describe it:
“The film is about underground music in Tokyo and features...
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