past articles

30 November 07

As The Silence Goes On Stinging And Smarting

All around you – turn over your left shoulder and observe, switch shoulders and perform the same visual fact-finding operative – it’s hysterics. People are hysterical…more...

28 November 07

They Disagree That It's All Been Done Before

The Tuesday afternoon that The Redwalls took the time to hop in a sporty utility vehicle was not a rock and roll type of a day. It was standard issue fall – warmish and dying – but we…more...

26 November 07

Frost Consorting With Toastiness To Its Bitter Sweetness

It is fundamentally coincidental that the photograph on the cover of Seattle band The Cave Singers debut album is the three men of various sizes and hirsute-ness huddled togethermore...

23 November 07

Of Ominous, For Ominous, Shoot The Ones You Know

It’s hard to tell which ones the Toronto band is referring to with its moniker. Sifting through the indiscretions – the ones that typically aren’t just no-nos or flubs…more...

21 November 07

Lost In The Funhouse, Nearly Institutionalized

From the fables and spoken word folk tales it’s known that just the outside of the house that the entirety of Nurses’ debut album, Hangin’ Nothin’ But Our Hands Down, was written…more...

19 November 07

Inconsequentiality Still Needs An Attempt

It takes some real trying – the college type of effort – to toss all imagery of Deerhunter front man Bradford Cox into the mental trash, but that’s what’s going to happen here…more...

16 November 07

It's Not Magic, It's Real And Easy To Believe In

People look at other people and say things to compare the one to any particular animal/beast that fits the description. They’ll say that some lanky, long-striding dude or lady …more...

14 November 07

Companion Piece To A Re-Reading of Liars And Saints, Splashing In Wonderful Sadness

And now, for her next trick, Emma Pollock will give you all of the familiarity and surprise you could ever want for, in cahoots with each other, just as the red and white tandems flirtatiously…more...

13 November 07

Our Stage

Jason Schwartzman was on Jimmy Kimmel the other night. He was supposed to be talking about "The Darjeeling Limited," the new Wes Anderson movie that he helped co-write and stars in, but before you could say...more...

12 November 07

Forcing Them To Talk, All Of Them, Scene Stealing What Comes Of It

Every so often, you’re sure, no matter where you’re from, to run across an offering in a local newspaper – for it’s the venue for the majority of all question-and-answer pieces…more...

9 November 07

Gracefulness Within The Dark Pools Of Light

The way the three members of Au Revoir Simone regard all that surrounds them is by collecting and collecting, all of the neurons, all of the bursts, all of the fluttering poetry …more...

7 November 07

A Drunken Dance With Rustic Classicism And Golden Olden Lights

The Donkeys have stumbled into our studio twice now – once in the late spring of 2006, before the weather had started to heat itself – and once …more...

7 November 07

Sondre Lerche

An interview with Jerry Seinfeld in the newest issue of Entertainment Weekly features the interviewer asking whether the bee man would ever be interested in acting in movies, say for instance one directed by a fella like Wes Anderson and Seinfeld apparently answered with an excited exclamation point that he would, but he didn’t think people thought about him as an actor who would do things like that…more...

5 November 07

Cynicality Can Comfort Us All Again

A band like Superdrag is more than a band. To just call these four guys – John Davis, Don Coffey Jr., Brandon Fisher and Tom Pappas — a band is to belittle all that they’ve done …more...

2 November 07

A Party And Its Degradation All Coming Out In The Wash

The complexities of the mish mash-uppity world that spans out before all of our open eyes these days – where nothing is sacred and almost everything is watered down …more...