Mixtape Monday: Dancin’ on the Highway
Flasher – Burn Blue Cruel Summer – Strange Fruit Rips – Delay Carmen Villain – Red Desert Las Piñas – Verano Great Grandpa – Favorite Show Fever Dream – Youth (Is Wasted on the Old) Haunted Summer – Every Step
Mixtape Monday: Summer Rain
The Savage Blush – Heartbreak Hunter Ice Balloons – The Wasp Magnetix – Living in a Box A. Savage – Winter in the South Magenta Placenta – Moon Dial Dame – Charm School El Silver Cabs – Figurine Count Vaseline – Cascade
Mixtape Monday: Tracks In Your Town
Genuine Leather – Found a Face Processions – Solipsist Monk Parker – Gaudy Frame Leather Girls – Arabian Daze Ruby Fray – Honor Holiday Music – The Energy Frosty Palms – Blur Guest Rooms – With Me
‘Merica Day Mixtape: Beer & Burgers
Enjoy our 4th of July mixtape while you get high and eat apple pie!
The Dan Ryan’s Guidance
Yearning for something beyond a grounded narrative, The Dan Ryan’s upcoming album, Guidance, takes their listeners on a multi-faceted journey through psychedelic realms and textural folk-ambience. Marking Chicago-native and Austin-based Nathan Dixey’s second release from Cosmic Dreamer, Guidance flows like intimate poetry, each track painting a vast, scenic landscape full of emotional conflict and...
From Cosmic To Crops: Why Black Hammer is The Best Current Superhero Comic
From Cosmic To Crops: Why Black Hammer is The Best Current Superhero Comic By Colin O’Neill Jeff Lemire is a cartoonist I have reverence for, perhaps because he’s Canadian (like me) and a few of the comics he’s created are set in Canada. Not only that, but his art style is wholly unique with...
Mixtape Monday: Your Crooked Smile
UV-TV – dissolve Peeling – Rattlesnake Adult Mom – Tenderness Beachglass – Lay Low David Nance – Negative Boogie Crown Larks – React Stuyedeyed – Funeral Lance Bangs – Football
The Hi-Jinks of Nihilistic Innocence: Why Stray Bullets is the Best Comic You Have Never Read
The Hi-Jinks of Nihilistic Innocence: Why Stray Bullets is the Best Comic You Have Never Read by Colin O’Neill Picture this: A group of coked-out tweakers hiding out in the desert in California. The living space is a crowded trailer that probably reeks of stale beer, transgressive sex, and bad habits. They...
Mixtape Monday: Start Here: by Anthony Flores
Animal Collective – Summertime Clothes Archy Marshall – Arise Dear Brother Black Marble – MSQ No-Extra Cold Cave – Confetti Drab Majesty – Dot in the Sky U.S. Girls – Island Song Black Moth Super Rainbow – Twin of Myself Ssaliva – Crayola Hype Williams – william, shotgun sprayer Tonstartssbandht – 5ft7 Boy Harsher...
Sigur Rós Show Review at the Moody Theater
Words & Photography: Mike Manewitz ( Instagram ) Since their 1994 inception in Reykjavík, Iceland, Sigur Rós’ strength has been bringing tangibility to the ineffable. A deeply emotional band, they take hold in an unusually wide cross-section of people, from metalheads and record nerds to children and retirees. Out of their lurching guitars,...
Visceral Revelations: An Interview With Dave Depper
Website || Instagram || Facebook || Twitter A driving force within a unit, Dave Depper is no stranger to casting his talents for a host of Northwestern bands. From Fruit Bats, Ray LaMontagne, Robyn Hitchcock and currently Death Cab for Cutie, his multifaceted music career has landed him both in recording studios and being...
