Has it really been almost two months since our last mix? Hey, give us a break. We’ve been busy. All this groundbreaking music coverage doesn’t write itself, you know. Plus, we had the holidays to contend with. Everyone’s busy around the holidays, right? Yeah, that’s a feasible excuse…

The Rain Machine discussed here is neither snake-oil nor cash money precipitation, but rather the debut album from Kyp Malone, singer and guitarist of TV on the Radio. Over the last six years, many words have been used to capture the Brooklyn-based band: experimental, dark, moody, art-rock, hipster. But TV on the Radio can best [...]

As prolific as he is as a recording artist, Kyp Malone is terribly difficult to define. From his band’s hard-fought successes, Malone and his band mates have been changing the sound of popular music as the music industry itself is resistant to any type of change in a digital world. Malone’s latest offering, Rain [...]

I’m interested in longevity, especially in harsh environments. Things that somehow survive long beyond their expected timeline. And AFI has been around for a serious minute.
Think about all the bands you know – all the chart-topping acts, all the next big things, all the bands forming as we speak. I’d wager that 95 percent of [...]

Lou Reed once asked, “What becomes a legend most?” No doubt the unfailingly modest Lou Barlow would blanch at being called a “legend.” And yet when you take the long-view, few artists have been as prolific, productive, and influential over the last 20 years. Barlow burst onto the scene as the bass-player in the seminal [...]

Originally published in Verbicide issue #3
Who doesn’t know and love AFI? The Berkeley, California hardcore punk quartet has played an exhausting touring schedule over the past year, headlining shows all over the world, as well as supporting acts such as Rancid and the Offspring. This summer, 2001, they will be playing the main stage at [...]