I don’t get out much these days. In fact, I’ve only gone to see shows sporadically for quite a while now, long enough that I can count on one-and-a-half hands the number of times I’ve caught a live show this past year. My evenings these days consist of coming home from work, eating dinner, playing […]
Not sure when they put ’em up, but local boys Radio Pioneer (ex-The Tie That Binds/-Guns of August/-etc.) have got two new awesome songs up on their MySpace page. Both “We’re Not Sorry” and “The World” hit all those emo-indie touchstones we (well, me, at least) love so damn much, from Samiam to Face to […]
Oh, yes. While culling through the bazillion or so shows coming up in the not-far-distant future this past week, I happened to notice newly-booked shows by a couple of really, really cool out-of-towners: Sun., May 6 – Son Volt @ The Continental Club Holy…um…wow. How is it that I haven’t heard people screaming to the […]
A little late notice, I know, but here it is: tonight’s Gym Class Heroes/RX Bandits/P.O.S./K-os show at The Meridian is gonna be fucking insane. Why? Well, while I do like the Heroes (“Papercuts” is a fine, fine track), enjoy the Bandits (who contributed one of the best tracks on the first Rock Against Bush comp, […]
Just a quick early warning-type note: yours truly spent a good 2 hrs. last night at the Empire Cafe (mmm…Milky Way good…) chatting with the large crew of people involved in either/or soft-rockers The Western Civilization or their record label Mia Kat Empire, and a real-live interview thingy will be coming once I can actually […]
Okay, so hopefully me posting this isn’t letting the cat out of the bag to their current drummer or anything — one would hope he’s been informed and not just left hanging a la Dave Mustaine getting booted by Metallica — but local indie-rock kids .belville have made it known that they do indeed need […]
It’s been a good week for power-pop, at least ’round SCR HQ. First off we got word that bizarrely catchy British power-popsters Art Brut have released five sneak-a-peek tracks from their soon-to-be-released next album on Downtown Recs. And thankfully, they’re damn good, albeit somewhat of a love-or-hate proposition — if frontman Eddie Argos’s Jonathan Richman-esque […]
Yep, I’m gonna get all Karnak with this one: this band will be a big, gigantic, fucking huge deal, and it’s going to happen soon. I’m talking about The Western Civilization, a bunch of local kids who tomorrow night (Sat., 3/23 @ Walter’s w/Peekaboo Theory and Buxton, who’re pretty good themselves) will be dropping Letters […]
…am I only just now hearing about this show? Tonight, Fri., 3/23, NY consciousness-minded grrl-rappers Northern State will be playing at Jet Lounge downtown (1515 Pease). Whoa. I’m not super-knowledgeable about Sprout, Hesta Prynn, and Spero — haven’t heard any of All City yet — but “The Man’s Dollar” rocks, and how can I not […]
Yep, new stuff up for the new week. Featured Bands: Sharks and Sailors; The Western Civilization. Live: DragonForce. Reviews: Loney, Dear; Die Hunns; The Jonx; Lucas Cates; Sebadoh re-issue; Teenage Harlets; tvfordogs; & Mike Uva.
This “editor/co-publisher” shtick has its perks from time to time. Sure, there’re all the moments when I want to rip the hair out of my head because things don’t happen when they need to, there’s me staggering into work bleary-eyed the morning after the almost-weekly update (yep, I’ve got a day job, and I like […]
Right, so I’m normally fairly merciless when it comes to bands that don’t send us actual CDs to listen to when they e-mail or send promo stuff — sadly, despite this being the age of the free-floating MP3 file and all that junk, I’m a relatively low-tech boy at heart. I generally need to have […]
