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[Photos] Wire and Natives – Clifton Center, Louisville 20 Aug 2013 | 08:48 pm
Because I knew the promoters, I had to keep mum for a long time that Wire, a band probably in my top five of all time and one of the few with surviving members, was coming to Louisville. At the time, ...
See the Amazing Angel Olsen This Thursday at Zanzabar 19 Aug 2013 | 08:49 pm
Angel Olsen at Cropped Out 2011 I’m continuously figuring out how Angel Olsen exists. She’s a soul completely out of time, a pre-rock and roll voice with a sharp modern wit. Her albums are completely...
The First Chapter of My Rejected 33 1/3 Proposal 27 Jul 2013 | 10:34 pm
Smashing Pumpkins’ Siamese Dream came out 20 years ago today – July 27, 1993. I can’t think of an album more formative for me growing up than this one. Siamese Dream is one of the first CDs I ever own...
Cropped Out 2013 Ropes in Lambchop, Mayo Thompson, Wolf Eyes, and More! 10 Jul 2013 | 08:02 pm
Back for its fourth year, the country’s most determinedly anti-commercial, DIY, how-does-this-thing-even-exist festival returns this September. Cropped Out Fest 2013, just like the previous three, pac...
[Photos] Death Grips, Ratking, and Anwar Sadat – Headliners, Louisville – 6.14.13 25 Jun 2013 | 06:09 pm
What a treat it was to see Death Grips – SPIN’s Artist of the Year, one of the freshest new artists in years, a group that Yeezus undoubtedly owes a lot of gratitude (and won’t dole out) – in a room w...
[Contest] Death Grips and Rat King this Friday at Headliners Music Hall! 12 Jun 2013 | 03:07 am
Folks, this is one for the books, one of the can’t miss live jams of the summer. Death Grips has kept both the heads and the backpackers captivated since 2011′s brutal Ex-Militia mixtape, and concocte...
WIRE is Coming to Louisville’s Clifton Center 7 Jun 2013 | 02:54 am
Plan accordingly.
[Video] Boards of Canada – Reach for the Dead 24 May 2013 | 12:25 am
Cool, good, new Boards of Canada dropped early. Give it to me. Tomorrow’s Harvest is out on June 11th. I imagine I won’t be doing anything else that day but vibing.
[Interview] Chicago’s Meat Wave 23 Apr 2013 | 06:44 pm
Chicago’s Meat Wave holds everything I’ve been looking for in a band lately. Their unabashed sense of marrying post-punk elements with tom heavy straight up rock n’ roll leaves them at a unique positi...
[Premiere] Cloudland Canyon – Prophetic Frequencies 29 Mar 2013 | 06:09 pm
The Memphis-based prophets Cloudland Canyon have gradually, over the course of myriad singles and collaborations the past few years, moved away from their hybrid form of guitar-meets-synths apache ant...
