The Dodos, Time To Die
I hope that when it’s my time to die, the new Dodos album will be playing in the background for my last 45 minutes. The indie group released its fourth album, Time To Die, on September 15, and I like it a lot…
Rock Houston Thursday with YKCC & The Manichean
The Manichean Rock Houston here. While all the cool kids were at Warehouse Live congratulating themselves (at the Houston Press Music Awards), I was out with the bands like I usually am. There was a full plate of events Thursday night. It was as if every band that didn’t get nominated decided to play shows. […]
Written on July 31, 2009 | Posted in Posts
So Many Dynamos, The Loud Wars
The Loud Wars is one of those albums that makes me want to go dig out an album I used to play ’til it felt like the CD player laser would burn out; in this case, the album they make me want to go grab is The Dismemberment Plan’s 2001 classic, Change…
The Other Night: Buxton, The Wild Moccasins, & Ghost Mountain @ Mango’s
It was hot. I was hot. Really, really, really fucking hot, the level of hot at which sane adults begin to wonder what the fuck they were thinking in the first place. At least, that’s what was going through my head as the two teenaged members of Ghost Mountain ambled onto the stage to start […]
Written on July 15, 2009 | Posted in Posts
Ghost Mountain, Siamese Sailboats
And now, dropping by from another planet…Ghost Mountain’s Siamese Sailboats. Okay, maybe not, but that’s sure what it feels like to listen to the trio’s seemingly acid-fueled mashup of Spiritualized psychedelia, nerdcore-style rapping…
Buxton, “Feathers”/”Flint”
It’s lead guitarist Jason Willis’s awesomely meandering — yet still relentlessly driving — and somehow downhome riff that does it, honestly. This review almost feels like a cheat, on my part, because Buxton’s been playing A-side “Feathers” live for a little while now…
Paris Falls, Volume III
I think Volume III works best when viewed as part of a bigger whole, right alongside Paris Falls’ previous efforts, Vol. 1 and Vol. II. Going by the band’s choice of titles for the three albums so far, it sure seems like they intended there to be some kind of progression…
Deleted Scenes, Birdseed Shirt
You can’t force yourself to like somebody; anybody who’s been through middle school knows that sad little truth. Even if you’re talking with somebody who’s got all the same interests as you, somebody who’s got the same background, somebody who likes the same things, there’s no magic button you can press…
