Dive into the archives.
- Discovered tour of the day/week/what-have-you: Liz Phair
Liz Phair rules. A few weeks ago I watched a VH1 show called “Women Who Rocked the 90s” or something like that. (I just spent 10 minutes searching for the show, but couldn’t find it.) So much good music! PJ Harvey, The Breeders, Hole. It sent me on a hunt for all the old goodies [...]
- I’m a Reatard, You’re a Reatard
Working hard to dirty garage punk is the best. Manic, frantic drums and filthy guitars. I should tell you guys all about how I got into Radiohead after all (remember my wheelchair debacle, oh loyal readers?), but I’ll save that for another post along with my high-quality concert photos. (I saw kids with camera phones [...]
- Discovered tour of the day/week/what-have-you: Stevie Wonder
So I’m gonna try a new type of post, where I’ll write about artists I’m really digging who happen to be on tour, and who I JUST DISCOVERED are on tour, the very minute before I write the post. (Perhaps this occasion is interesting to no one other than me.) Running a live music site [...]
- Chromatics at Cafe 1001 (London), April 19, 2008 review
Thanks to Slutty Fringe’s great concert pick, I managed to catch The Chromatics‘ first London show at Cafe 1001, right around the corner from us on Brick Lane. I fell in love with the Chromatics’ sound after reading so much about the Italians Do it Better imprint, which released their album, Night Drive.
The place was [...]
- Final Fantasy at the Forum
Michelle gave me Funeral by The Arcade Fire back when we were studying in Beijing and it’s been one of my favourite records ever since.
Final Fantasy (Owen Pallett) was behind the string arrangements on that album and I’ve always associated him closely with the Arcade Fire.
This was probably largely due to the first solo record [...]
- Thao Nguyen at Barden’s Boudoir review
A friend recently saw Thao in SF and told me I absolutely had to go see her. I had been reading her name all over the place, so I moseyed on over to her MySpace, fell in love with her sound, bought a ticket, and went to a great show last night.
Thao Nguyen’s folk sound [...]
- Tingtastic
Last night I went to the Hoxton Bar and Grill to see the Ting Tings. I know, I know, I’m late to the game, and they’ve already blown up and out for those who know, but so what.
This month I heard “That’s Not My Name” and got totally addicted. I have no idea why this [...]
- Cover your laptops, it’s a Girl Talk show.
(credit Illya on Girl Talk’s MySpace)
Last night we hit the Girl Talk show up in Dalston.
All the gigs I’d normally describe as intimate are the Unplugged in NY type - up close and personal with a band. Last night I got introduced to Girl Talk’s own brand of intimacy.
If you haven’t heard Nightripper yet, get [...]
- Point, Counterpoint. Or, maybe I should just get a Tumblr.
Sasha Frere-Jones in The New Yorker: ‘But by the mid-nineties black influences had begun to recede, sometimes drastically, and the term “indie rock” came implicitly to mean white rock. Pavement, a group that the Village Voice rock critic Robert Christgau, in 1997, called “the finest rock band of the nineties—by critical acclamation,” embodied this trajectory.’
Ann [...]
- Driven barmy…
The Fall is one of those bands I know are important, I read about all the time, have been told are amazing, but for whatever reason I never made the effort to explore it for myself. I wish I could be as musically on top of everything as all the bloggers and critics I admire, [...]
