The Daily Swarm reports that Brendan Majewski, former bassist of the now-defunct DC art punk band Quix*o*tic, took his own life on January 20th. He [...]
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Nate and Jackson: Enoughby Nate Pollard and Jackson Ellis
METROID METAL – Expansion Packreviewed by Dan Chapman
Nowadays, the strangest projects in the music industry are tossed in the “indie” category, but lo and behold a really weird “metal” album has just [...]
ROYAL THUNDER – S/Treviewed by Thomas Pizzola
This foxy female-fronted trio plays dirt encrusted hard rock with plenty of grit and soul. Vocalist/bassist Mlny Parsonz sultry voice suggests what would have happened [...]
Portland Cello Project Covers Kanye
On December 17, 2010, Portland Cello Project debuted their cover of Kanye West’s “All of the Lights.” The cameras happened to be rolling, and now, [...]
Interview: Matt Pryor of The Get Up Kidswords by Paul J. Comeau
The impact that The Get Up Kids have had on indie music cannot be understated. Their first album, 1997’s Four Minute Mile, was one of [...]
Cancerwords by Thomas Kearnes | photo by Phil Landowski
His back to me, Benjamin sits nude at the edge of the bed. I lie on my side a few feet behind him, also naked, [...]
DANIEL MARTIN MOORE – In The Cool of the Dayreviewed by Dan Chapman
Listening to Daniel Martin Moore’s In The Cool Of The Day is, in a nutshell, quite a simple task. Whispering piano parts, vocals as smooth [...]
DEERHOOF – Deerhoof vs. Evilreviewed by Oswald Hobbes
For all of Deerhoof’s genre-bending and experimentation, their greatest moments occur when a genuine hook busts free of the sonic chaos. These moments, contrasted with [...]
FOUR LIONSreviewed by Daniel Spicer
Film4 97 min., dir. by Chris Morris, with Riz Ahmed, Nigel Lindsay, and Kayvan Novak The debut feature from Britain’s most important satirist is suitably [...]
BE MY DOPPELGANGER – No Composurereviewed by Shahab Zargari
These guys have the punk sensibilities and lyrical bravado of Dillinger Four, the unusually amazing charm of the Copyrights, and bit of the playfulness of [...]
Photo Gallery: Monotonix and Ty Segall at the Echoplex, Los Angeles 1/27/11photos by Chad Elder
Chad Elder covered the Monotonix/Ty Segall show at the Echoplex for Verbicide over the weekend. He relayed that the Monotonix were wild men, as always! They didn’t use the stage at all — they just burrowed into the crowd, fully embracing the chaos they created. Check out his gorgeous photos of their antics, as well as some beautiful shots of openers Ty Segall.
100 POSTERS/134 SQUIRRELS by Jay Ryanreviewed by Shahab Zargari
Akashic Books, 120 pages, paperback, $22.95 This book is a reissue of Jay Ryan’s amazing first decade of silk-screened artwork and posters. Several essays serve as introductions [...]
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