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...
Mixtape Monday: Tracks In Your Town
The Gospel Truth – Jealous Fires Marine Cult – Blue Rare Magic – Hail & Farewell Wil Brookhart – Simple Things Football, Etc. – Save Super Thief – sheepsquid Big Bill – Stand Still Color Candy – Warped, Skewed, Etc
Fast and Loose: The Rich Hands Becoming Gods
Fast and Loose The Rich Hands Becoming Gods By Jay Armstrong Rock n Roll will never die, anyone who tells you it has or soon will is simply growing older, putting on the lame armor of burning out adulthood while slinking off to be forgotten in their anonymous lives, or they are the kind...
Mixtape Monday: Clams on the Half Shell & Roller Skates by Cat Tassini
CHIC – Good Times Marvin Gaye – Got to Give It Up (Part 1) Mariah Carey, Ol’ Dirty Bastard, Diddy – Fantasy Diana Ross – I’m Coming Out Kendrick Lamar – i Neon Indian – Techno Clique Phantogram – Don’t Move Amazing Baby – Supreme Being Roxy Music – Prairie Rose Games – Shadows...
Music Video Premiere: Man Woman Friend Computer’s “Exordium/Outgrown”
Inhabiting a sonic space that melds mind and machine, Thomas Echols’ evocatively titled project Man, Woman, Friend, Computer is an exploration of ambient textures and moods. Introspective and meandering, each tracks plays out as a living, breathing entity. When Echols, a classically trained guitarist, reconnected with former student Yuliya Tsukerman, he discovered a mutual...
Mixtape Monday with Dead Oceans // Kane Strang Takeover
Website || Facebook || Instagram || Twitter Dead Oceans has been at the top of our record label love for quite some time. With their roster including the recent release of Slowdive’s self-titled album out earlier this month, A Place to Bury Strangers’ continual mesmerizing live shows and Mitski’s compellingly personal work, we eagerly...
Live Review: The Besnard Lakes Are A Vast Wonder Unto Their Own
Website || Facebook || Twitter || Instagram Photography by Raphael Umscheid ( Instagram ) Words by Trish Connelly ( Instagram ) Arriving early for The Besnard Lakes’ set in downtown Austin, Barracuda’s inside stage provided a spacious yet intimate environment for attendees to plant themselves up close for the band’s eagerly awaited set...
