Godspeed You! Black Emperor Live in Vancouver
Buncha folks sitting around in a half-circle making epic music. No lights, no fun, but all darkfuzz goodness. Intense for some, disappointing for others. I get it, GY!BE, I really do. But you didn’t quite get ME this time.
WEEN Live – The WHAT. THE. F*CK? Review (Pics by Kris Krüg)
To totally crib a line from my friend Lizz, “I think we need to form a support group” after Ween’s crazy gig in Vancouver on January 24. Here’s my mixed Tweetnotes from the show, alongside pretty photos and a full gallery of pics by Kris Krüg.
SALEM….in the dark. Photos! Bleakness! Rapping!
What do you get when you put three people in the pitch fucking black on stage with a Korg, a bunch of effects boxes, and dry ice in front of a load of nodding hipsters. Uh, SALEM. And it was good.
FOALS 2011 US/CAN Spring Tour…starts in Vancouver April 10!
To use a headache-inducing-cliché, this is a DO NOT MISS tour. Foals are coming back to the US/Canada this spring and YOU NEED TO BE READY. Here are the dates.
FREE! NEW! Gorillaz, Yeasayer* and Klaxons! OK!
Trawling the Interwebs since 7am this morning, so you don’t have to. Here’s some free, new music from London lads Gorillaz, as well as those capuchins in The Klaxons, plus Brooklyn baboons Yeasayer* (Technically you should pay for it but you CAN get it for free). Holy crap, awesome!
Introducing: TRUE WOMANHOOD
New indie band alert! True Womanhood: oddball young things from Washington, DC, playing eerie, rhythmic new wave music. And they like banging on stuff and playing with reel-to-reels. I’d like you to shake their hands.