Inventive Clatter: Harder and harsher, Boris still smiles
After 12 years, four record labels and a handful of genres, Boris, the Japanese sludge/doom/noise/drone/psychedelic trio ,is about to release ...
Arts & Culture
Record Review: “Rabbit Habits,” Man Man
Last year some pictures of everyone’s favorite gypsy art-rockers, Man Man, circulated around Internetland. The boys, hard at work on ...
The Cine-Files
Spring has sprung! Finally, the miserable weather has changed to pure sun-soaked bliss. But that is no reason, my fellow ...
MP3 of the week
Ok, we decided it was time to prove this section isn’t just an indulgence of my ardor for “sick” remixes. ...
Top 5 most overrated works of art
5. Johann Pachelbel, “Pachelbel's Canon in D” (Please note we did not say Vitamin C). 4. Jean-Honoré Fragonard, “The Swing” ...
Record Review: “Mountain Battles”, The Breeders
In “Fool The World,” the Pixies’ collected oral history, Kim Deal recalls a particularly raucous night out with Throwing Muses’ ...
The Cine-Files
This week on the Film Series…the new Film Board swings into action! I know we all love this year’s seniors, ...
MP3 of the week
In the wake of last year’s electro-dance explosion came a wave of dime-a-dozen Simian Mobile Justice-style DJ collectives. But Guns’n’Bombs’s ...
Top 5: Big fuck-off beards
5. Karl Marx 4. Moses 3. ZZ Top 2. Leo Tolstoy 1. Walt Whitman (America always beats Russia. Always.)
“Ghost Vaudevillians” thesis makes some magic on stage
The reality and truth of a matter is often muddled with personal perceptions. We attempt to distinguish between illusions and ...