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Show Review: Akron/Family at 285 Kent, Brooklyn 1/21/12
words and photos by Vanessa Bennett

Show Review: Akron/Family at 285 Kent, Brooklyn 1/21/12

Little known and inconspicuous, Brooklyn venue 285 Kent is a tiny warehouse riddled with graffiti. It is a dark, hot, and, yes, dirty space where [...]

THE LUYAS – Too Beautiful To Work
reviewed by Dan Chapman

THE LUYAS – Too Beautiful To Work

The Canadian four-piece The Luyas have emerged with a courageous effort in Too Beautiful To Work. The group spawned from the bustling music scene in [...]

Akron/Family – Silly Bears

Akron/Family – Silly Bears

Akron/Family’s S/T II: The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju TNT is available via Dead Oceans, as well as purple cassette tape courtesy of Joyful Noise [...]

The Luyas – Tiny Head

The Luyas – Tiny Head

The Luyas recently completed their Dead Oceans debut. Too Beautiful to Work will be released on February 22 (February 21, in the UK). A picture-perfect collection [...]

The Good Ones – Amagorwa y’ Abagabo

The Good Ones – Amagorwa y’ Abagabo

Great songs need not context, a shared language nor familiar rhythms to so prove themselves. The guitars don’t even have to be exactly in tune. [...]

Show Review: Fun Fun Fun Fest 2010
words by Luke Winkie | photos by Kaitlyn Roche

Show Review: Fun Fun Fun Fest 2010

Amongst the commercialized Lollapalooza and the inflated Coachella, we need smaller, secluded festivals to keep us all grounded. Fun Fun Fun Fest gives Austin a more intimate, personalized, and risk-taking lineup in counterpart of Austin City Limits, featuring some of pop culture’s most surreal un-conventionalists like Yankovic, Gwar, and Suicidal Tendencies.

The Good Ones – Sara

The Good Ones – Sara

Great songs need not context, a shared language nor familiar rhythms to so prove themselves. The guitars don’t even have to be exactly in tune. [...]

Phosphorescent – The Mermaid Parade

Phosphorescent – The Mermaid Parade

The praise for Phosphorescent’s Here’s To Taking It Easy is pouring in. Taking Mojo’s album of the month honors, the glowing review says that songwriter Matthew [...]

Verbicide Select Mixtape Volume 5

Verbicide Select Mixtape Volume 5

Presenting the new and improved Verbicide Select Mixtape Volume 5! Fourteen delicious tracks (and one bonus track) fortified with vitamins, minerals, essential polypeptides, and 100% [...]

White Hinterland – Icarus

White Hinterland – Icarus

The evolution of White Hinterland’s music has been graceful and inspiring, shifting chameleon-like from jazz-tinged chamber-pop to French ye-ye music. Now, with the March 9 [...]

Citay – Careful With That Hat

Citay – Careful With That Hat

Coming January 26th from Dead Oceans, Dream Get Together is the third full-length from San Francisco’s Citay. The symphonic dueling lead guitars, soaring vocals, grandiose [...]