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Photos: WYE OAK and DIRTY PROJECTORS
Brooklyn’s art-folksters Dirty Projectors and friend-to-the-BSR Wye Oak popped by the imaginatively named venue called VENUE on July 24. Here’s a full photo gallery, and a bit of musing on both subjects *strokes chin*
July 29, 2012
SECRET – Exclusive SEBADOH New EP, Album Art and Studio Pics!
Sebadoh return with a “SECRET EP”, their first new music in 14 years. Contained, herein, is the exclusive look at the lo-fi album art, and pics from the studio. OH YES.
July 23, 2012
Photos/Review: LIARS – Shut Up and Play the Hits
After expecting us to wade through a tuneless pile of meh for the first half, LIARS slay and blow minds during the latter half of their Biltmore gig on July 9. Check out the pics.
July 15, 2012
Gallery/Review – Getting Lost at LOWER DENS (Includes Bonus References to NO JOY and ALAN RESNICK)
I went out and got lost in the Lower Dens. Check out this gallery of pics and a few words on the Dens’ gig at the Media Club in Vancouver on July 7. Plus a few of No Joy’s hair!
July 10, 2012
SLED ISLAND DAY 3 – NARDWUAR, ANDREW WK, stalking THURSTON MOORE, TERRY MALTS and more
Day 3 and my final day at Sled Island Festival in Calgary. Today included Nardwuar talking about me on stage, meeting Andrew WK, stalking Thurston Moore from Sonic Youth and seeing Yamantaka//Sonic Titan, Terry Malts & Boris. Rock!
July 4, 2012
SLED ISLAND DAY 1: A mostly LOU BARLOW, slightly SHADOWY MEN sort of day
Yay for festivals! Herewith Day 1 (a slow and mostly Lou Barlow-y sort of day with a touch of Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet) of the fab Sled Island festival in Calgary on June 20, 2012. The longest day of the year, and one filled with fab musicks and friends. Stay tuned for Days…
June 27, 2012
EXCLUSIVE: Interview with Thom Green From Δ (ALT-J). “It felt like it was music that I’d been looking for. It filled a gap.”
Possibly the best album of the year, if not the last five, has arrived and it’s a wee little debut by a four-piece of twenty-nothings from Cambridge, UK. Herewith, an exclusive interview with Thom Green of the BSR’s favest new band: Δ (ALT-J).
June 13, 2012
SPIRITUALIZED – Tune in, Turn On, Trip Out
A roundup of the sleepytrippy Spiritualized show in Vancouver at the Rickshaw Theatre on May 26. Includes a story about how I accidentally stalked the band in the 90s.
June 7, 2012
Photos/Review: KURT VILE and DUM DUM GIRLS live
Kurt Vile and co-headliners Dum Dum Girls played the Biltmore Cabaret in Vancouver on May 25 and BSR was there, snapping. Getting a shot of Vile’s face became almost an Olympic sport, but man, we got gold. Photo gallery and review, herein.
June 3, 2012

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