Mar 23 2008 8:00P Music Hall of Williamsburg (with Xiu Xiu) Brooklyn, New York Mar 27 2008 8:00P Black Cat (with Xiu Xiu) Washington DC Apr 2 2008 8:00P Canal Room (Headlining) New York, New York Village Voice – “[Music for Tourists] It’s soft, honest, and wholeheartedly intimate†Time Out NY – “His strong command of the piano and quirky operatic voice call to mind Regina Spektor. Like her, he…
High Maintenance #2 ($3, PO Box 63022, Philadelphia, PA 19114-0822) Another of the glossy zines that I always tend to get for review, this one is actually not that bad. Interspersing heavy musical content with different approaches, High Maintenance makes it easy for the average reader to get through the magazine in just under an hour, and without stopping to put the zine. Highlights of this issue include the listing…
In just the first two years together Kelowna, BC’s SLEDDOGS, consisting of Kenny Byrka lead vocals, electric bass, electric piano, synthesizers, Michael Donley; electric guitar, backing vocals, and Eric Funk; drums and percussion, backing vocals, have made a significant mark on the Canadian rock landscape. Following a hectic 2006, SLEDDOGS settled into a West Coast groove to test the waters for their highly anticipated follow up with producer Steven Drake,…
The South Florida store Merchandize Liquidators provides individuals with an easy way to get wholesale clothes for a price that individuals will be happy with. Whether it be men’s clothing or a number of other types and styles of clothing, they will have everything an individual could want. Check them out.
When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold Out April 22nd On Rhymesayers – SXSW Listening Event Friday, March 14th at 2pm. If five releases from Atmosphere in less than a year doesn’t have you already convinced that Minneapolis’ Slug and Ant are the hardest working men in the biz, 19 North American tour dates through April and May across the US and Canada should set the record…
Hermana, Resist #2 / Half-Sized / $3 / 44 Pages / Noemi Martinez, PO Box 809, La Blanca, TX 78558 / noemi@chicanawriter.com / Before receiving this zine, I really heard some great stuff about Hermana, Resist and Noemi. I even went as far to do a link exchange with Noemi and eir’s website, CS-Tiendita. However, when I actually read through the zine I was shocked about how intensely personal Noemi…
On their third full-length, the long-awaited “A Long, Lovely List of Repairs” (Adrenaline Music Group/Alternative Distribution Alliance), Portland, Oregon¹s Amelia – Teisha Helgerson (vocals/drums), Jesse Emerson (bass) and Scott Weddle (guitar/vocals)  deliver a beautiful, spellbinding album of rustic pop, Americana, and heartbreaking rock. Critical praise has followed Amelia throughout their career, with publications such as Performing Songwriter Magazine describing their music as “Ša lush mid-tempo world of vibrato guitar,…
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OST: Bonneville / 2008 Lakeshore / 15 Tracks / http://www.lakeshore-records.com / The style of “Bonneville’s†soundtrack is interesting. The first half of the disc consists of tracks by a number of individuals both famous (Donovan, Amos Lee) and either forgotten or less popular (Chelo, Nick Kershaw). The second half of the disc consists of tracks by Jeff Cardoni, an up and coming composer that has scored things as diverse as…
On April 15, 2008, Osaka natives Water Fai will release their debut album, Girls in the White Dream. Influenced by Mogwai, Styrofoam, and Electralane, Water Fai bring a much needed feminine approach to the post-rock genre, so often dominated by male artists.
About Further Down Born in the Arkansas hills and with a deep-rooted appreciation for blues-tinged Southern rock as well as radio-ready album rock, five-piece rock band Further Down has arrived. With the release of the band’s third full-length album, 7 Years Hard Luck (August 21, 2007), Further Down is on a mission to bring rock to its roots and back again to the present. Further Down features rock royalty in…
Second single features Little Brother and production from 9th Wonder The Song: On Akrobatik’s second full-length solo release, the only thing more impressive than the star-studded guest list – Chuck D, J Dilla, Talib Kweli, to name a few– is the fact that he is not once overshadowed by the surrounding hip-hop giants. “Be Prepared,” featuring Little Brother and produced by 9th Wonder, exemplifies Ak’s ability to showcase other artists…
Here’s What I’ve Hidden Under My Tongue #1 / $1 / :10 / 28S / D.J.T., 108 Route 30, Newfane, VT 05345 / DJT’s zines are always some of the most emotionally affecting that I have the chance to read, and this time deals with eir dealings with diet, both before and after hormonal therapy. In the inaugural issue of this zine, the societal construct of what it is to…
I was always a singer. There is a dusty reel to reel tape somewhere of me singing Be Bop a Lula at about three years old. I didnt know all the lyrics then! Musicians of my age were perhaps the first generation of teenagers to actually like the music their parents listened to and so I had a good solid education of the Beatles, The Stones, The Kinks, The Who,…
Astralwerks act Hot Chip is Zune’s “Ignition” artist for the month of February and is releasing the track “So Deep” exclusively on Zune Marketplace on February 26 for a period of one month. In addition, the band is currently offering the Zune Freebie “Made In The Dark”, a track-by-track Breakdown of the new album, and an exclusive Guestlist featuring tracks hand-picked by the band. MSN is also streaming an exclusive…
Visiter, by San Francisco band The Dodos, is their second full length and first for Frenchkiss. Originally formed in 2006 under the moniker Dodobird as a one man acoustic act, Meric Long would gig around SF playing folky guitar with a combination of loops and ambient keyboards. Having already studied West African Ewe drumming, Meric got turned onto country blues fingerpicking and sought to create a band where the drumming…
Nik Freitas – Sun Down / 2008 Team Love / 10 Tracks / http://www.nikfreitas.com / http://www.team-love.com / Freitas has been around for a few years before signing on to Team Love. That means that there are three other albums that individuals can pick up if they like what is happening on “Sun Downâ€: Here’s Laughing At You, Heavy Mellow, and Voicing The Hammers. The first, titular track is an example…
The Joshua Cain Band found their souls on the streets of urban Tacoma. You might play great music, but then the town finds you, strips you down, and makes you real. Pain and possibility seem to go hand in hand there, spinning tales that remind you that a song isn’t really a song until you’ve lived it.
Herbin’ Guerrila #2 / :10 / $1 / 20M / herbinguerrilla@graffiti.net / This zine is one of the first that I have read that actually paints recreational drug use (at least with pot) as something that is not totally antithetical to anarchism/other movements. Throughout the few zines I’ve read on the topic there seems to be either an ignorance of the fun one can have with weed or an outright…
Hit The Lights have announced in a video update on their newly designed www.myspace.com/hitthelights that guitarist Nick Thompson will be taking over lead vocal duties. The bands former lead singer, Colin Ross left the band last summer to peruse a quiet life. The band remains tight with Colin and wish him the best in whatever lies next for him. The band have posted a new song with Thompson singing to…