past articles

6 January 09

Crumbs Of The Time That Exists No Longer

There is no other voice like the one that Joel Thibodeau has on his persons. To see the pint-sized Rhode Islander with the kind of long …more...

5 January 09

For Youthfulness Is Devastating And Charming In Its Skin

The memory doesn’t serve when trying to recall when the last time might have been that a specific and reachable clavicle and bare shoulder were …more...

4 January 09

Pornographically American, Sort Of

Within the first week of buying my first and hopefully last house, Ghostfinger’s Richie (Fingers) Kirkpatrick was standing in my …more...

3 January 09

Odd Pieces Swimming Out Of Frozen Depths

All of those people who use the start of a new year to shed clothes down to their skivvies to take a brief run into an …more...

2 January 09

The Endearment Of An Ashen Animal

Carson Daly is in Times Square right now. He’s got his black Isotoner gloves, classy black trench coat and matching …more...

1 January 09

Depicting The Head Or A Pillow Where A Head's Been Recently Spotted

It’s a man-sized, bulky pile of time that Brendon Massel has spent driving around this country. He’s spent solitary time processing all of the …more...

31 December 08

Sensations Of Overwhelming Retroactive Powerhousing

This is the last session posting of the year of two-thousand and eight. As you are already aware, it comes to you from …more...

30 December 08

A Visit To The Lovepacalypse

Apparently it’s that obvious. We all want the same thing, say The Peekers. It’s all over our sticky faces, written in …more...

29 December 08

Are We Chaos Makers Or Are We Men?

Show business hasn’t borne witness to a sensory overload like Dark Meat since it’s been deemed show business, which is literally the …more...

28 December 08

The Wizards Are Here

We use the term “sprawling” – or other people do in travelogues and architectural digests – to express the layout and dimensions of a city like …more...

27 December 08

Expanding Minds On A Small Budget

Without ever having seen a mirage, there’s no way to speak intelligently about how they could mess a dude up. Maybe speaking intelligently about …more...

26 December 08

Undulously Capering With The Country Ghosts

Did the Association ever let the banjo play, to take us out for a wining and a dining? It’s one of the first thoughts that clambers into the …more...

24 December 08

The Tints And Textures Of Endless Prophecy

The Lymbyc Systym sounds like prophecy ringing in from the timbers, smoking in from the highland fires and buzzing in as if …more...

23 December 08

Icy Acts Made Into Molotov Cocktails

It would behoove any of you contemplating it to never allow any of the members of Dr. Manhattan perform any variety of medical procedure on …more...

22 December 08

What's Left Of The Silver Is Ours

We can’t be certain if the members of English band Noah & The Whale knew it at the time that they were here in our studio in Rock Island and then again …more...

21 December 08

In Recognition Of Human Experiments Gone Wrong

Prussia, in reference to the land mass formerly ruled by Frederick the Great in its glory days, is now just a word. It serves only …more...

20 December 08

Entering As A Smoky Tide

Lissie Maurus (stage name is succinctly Lissie, mind you) is the first hometown subject recorded here at Daytrotter. She’s someone who wasn’t …more...

19 December 08

We Love A Good Curse

From the time that this North Carolina band starting making substantial worldwide noise in 2007, until now, Annuals has changed a lot about …more...

18 December 08

Growth And Longing

There’s no telling the purity of someone by what they look like or what they write. And there’s really no telling what that …more...

17 December 08

Vault: Asobi Seksu

It’s not about words, per say. Those nouns and adjectives might be conjugated perfectly, the sentences flawless, the rhyming impeccable…more...

17 December 08

Old Souls Bare Naked

The woman on the cover of the latest Crooked Fingers album is buck naked except for a rubber mask of an elephant with a pair of …more...

16 December 08

The Intersection Of Human Collateral Welcomes Us Back

Ian Metzger sings, “I haven’t felt this way in a long time,” on “Bad News” and then he sings it again and makes it pierce as if it’s got to …more...

15 December 08

The Feelings Answer To Her

For a while, there was a very real fear that Grace Potter and the Nocturnals were doomed to never have it work out for …more...

14 December 08

Not A Tourist, Just Here For The E-Mail

It’s Sunday night, at this point. All of our scholarly readers, those with the tiny eyeglasses and with their expensive taste in furniture, have all demolished …more...

13 December 08

Lost Colors Of The Saturday Evening Posts

A considerable and extensive overhaul to the part of the head that keeps track of where it is at all times – decade-speaking, not in terms of …more...

12 December 08

A Drink Of The Slow Heat

A buddy explained the other night – as the air outside kicked up a flume of disturbing wintry business – that he’s just recently begun takingmore...

11 December 08

All Who Share A Hot-Blooded Mouth

Our real flair is our impermanence, some could say. Some like Joseph Arthur, the Brooklyn musician who walks into the room as if …more...

10 December 08

The Flawed Men That Become

A man who runs with the wolves – or a pack of men who run with the wolves – are most notably of a different breed. They are …more...

9 December 08

Clouds For The Headless Horseman And Sundays

It would be something to have a hand in actually cooking up clouds, in procreating them, in forming them and bringing them intomore...

8 December 08

Forms And Shapeshifting Magic Dust

By happenstance a night or two ago, there was a network broadcast of “Santa Claus: The Movie,” the classic 1985 holiday vehicle starring …more...