Live Review: John Densmore’s Tribaljazz
When I was roughly 7 years old or so, I first saw the video for the Doors’ song Wild Child. It’s one of my earliest music video memories (yes, I grew up with MTV) and that song was the introduction to what still stands as my favorite band of all time. On Saturday, John Densmore’s [...]
Poi Dog Pondering: Pomegranate
It’s worldly pop. Interesting phrase, isn’t it? What does worldly pop really mean? It is probably full of beats from different cultures with peppy and happy hooks throughout. Yet still “indie” rock if that’s possible. And if it was new. That’s what makes it such a great album – it has lived through 13 [...]
Fictionarium: Chapter 2
It seemed to Frank as if he’d been stuck, petrified, crashing violently against the ink-black and thoroughly bruising confines of the trunk for an absolute age. In reality, the unnerving car journey had probably only lasted a matter of minutes, but then what was real anymore? The car seemed to be slowing to a [...]
For those with the slightest music history knowledge, Manchester is one English city that has produced a seemingly inordinate amount of music: the Buzzcocks, Joy Division, Happy Mondays, the Doves, etc. Elbow is one such band. They went back to Manchester to record their self-produced fourth album, The Seldom Seen Kid. While they did [...]
People who rarely or never buy concert tickets perhaps have the idea in their head that you either call up your friendly ticketing agent on the phone, or go down to the hardware store on a Saturday morning to get in line (get there 20 minutes early!) for tickets still. That’s how it used to [...]
Fictionarium: Chapter 1
The Randomville Fictionarium was conspired as a weekly fictional piece, based around a handful of characters and their interactions in the make-believe town of Randomville. We thought it would be fun to have different writers take the pen for each "chapter" of this story… and it became more fantastical and wonderful with each turn of [...]
Foals – Antidote
According to some other self-important music internet publications, dance-rock’s heyday was at its peak in the middle years of this decade. It came and went (like the ska and swing phases of the late 90s), and died an un-ceremonial death somewhere over the past few years. To a band that makes the music well it [...]
Boarding Gate
Boarding Gate probably isn’t the ideal place to enter into the fascinating career and sometimes jagged world of director Olivier Assayas. This new film, taking place in Paris and Hong Kong (though shot in English), seems to be the quick and dirty step-child of the director’s chilling, confounding, and all together wonderful ultra-modern movie demonlover. [...]