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EASTERN YOUTH – interview by pr! home It’s been said that music is a language. I really dig the latest album by Eastern Youth, “What Can you See From Your Place”. It’s got this indie rock sound that becomes complicated…
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Interview: Hella
(this interview originally appeared as the cover feature for issue #40 of Modern Fix Magazine in 2004). interview by gordon downs These days there are way too many muthafucking drum and guitar duos to even name check in this piece.…
Review: Superchunk “Crowding Up Your Visual Field” DVD
Superchunk “Crowding Up Your Visual Field” (Merge) Finally something for all the jaded indie rockers from the nineties who now hate all-ages venues because there’s no available booze! “Crowding Up Your Visual Field” is Mac’s tour diary of Superchunk’s…
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DVD REVIEWS back to DVD reviews home Artist: U.K. Subs Title: Punk Can Take It Label: Cleopatra Purchase at: Interpunk Purchase at: Amazon “While U.K. Subs was at the heights of its fame, during the Another Kind of Blues era, it…
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THE DECEMBERISTS – by peter soyer home The first time Colin Meloy’s voice floats out of the speakers, I felt like I found a friend I lost 17 years ago. Like I was in downtown San Francisco, bums asking for…
Review: TRS-80
TRS-80 “Shake Hands With Danger” (File 13) Mostly looped beats, sounds, effects, breaks, stutters and whatever electro flavored vibe this trio can tape together. It’s a cacophony of sound, which is fully the intention. The sound is not as “computer”…
Review: Virgin Black
Virgin Black “Elegant and Dying” (The End) Impressive. This is dark, doom-laden music that isn’t full of self-pity or the usual depressed clichŽs of the dark metal genre. Virgin Black is forging a path through a forest they themselves planted.…
Review: Watch Them Die
Watch Them Die “Self-Titled” (Century Media) This is a death metal band. I’m getting mighty sick of record labels trying to call their death metal anything and everything but death metal. I have this promo cd case here and it…
Review: The Starting Line
The Starting Line “The Make Yourself At Home EP” (Drive-Thru) It seems as though everywhere you turn there seems to be another band writing heart on sleeve ballads about girls or “the one that got away”. Take a look at…
Review: Withered Earth
Withered Earth “Of Which They Bleed” (Olympic) Withered Earth offer death metal infused with a touch of the good old grind. I like them more in traditional death metal mode than I do when they’re playing ridiculous full-bore blast beats…