When Junior Boys played the Bowery Ballroom back in September, they were clad in stark white jumpsuits with large popped collars and laceless white shoes that set the mood of detached ambience pretty quickly. Thus, it was rather strange for me this time when the duo took the stage and were wearing their normal street […]
Last night Relative Theory Records sponsered the Decemberists show at the NorVa, of course many members of the RTR staff were there to take it all in. I personally showed up late to the show and had just missed My Brightest Diamond’s set, so if anyone feels the desire to come through and add a […]
When we interviewed French Kiss Records’ The Big Sleep back in November, Sonia mentioned that she had really fallen in love with The Thermals (particularly “Pillar of Salt”). Thus, I was pretty excited for them when I read that they would be opening up for The Thermals on a big national tour, and I made […]
This past weekend I took a small vacation to one of my favorite cities Phillidelphia, and being a music minded town, it was impossible for me not to do some “field reporting” on the music while i was there.
I attended two concerts while up north the first was of Montreal, (which you can read […]
Let me start off by saying that an hour after this show I was still breathing heavy, and now, the morning after, I am sore all over from the almost two hours of dancing that went on at this show. That dancing is credited to, of course, Of Montreal and not so much the other […]
Photo by Barry Yanowitz*
I had the lovely privelage the other night to catch one of my favorite bands at the Bowery Ballroom for a show that would go down forever as one of my favorite holiday moments. I was also exposed to a very good new Sub-Pop act that I suggest you keep your eyes peeled […]
I think of all the contributors, I’m probably the most hopeless follower of the Kinsellas and company. I don’t really say this proudly, I wish I could approach every musical artist objectively, but jeezy kreezy I love almost everything those brothers touch, what can I say. So last summer when I found out […]
Scene: Andy Rantanan and James, in Relative Theory Records a little over a year ago:
A: Yeah, I’ve been listening to a lot of this band lately (points to an Okkervil River Album )
J: I haven’t heard of them, what’s it like?
A: Uhh…well do you like Bright Eyes?
J: Yeah, […]
Nick Diamonds has had it rough with this whole rock band thing. First his breakout act Unicorns dissolves very quickly after its rise to indie-success, and then after just one great album from his surviving band Islands, his co-songwriter/drummer up and calls it quits. But like his mantra “Islands are Forever” insinuates, he […]
Music unbearably wierd and wonderfully poppy from Brooklyn and California came together for one night of guys with wierd voices/lyrics and even weirder backup music. Both these bands are incredible, so feel free to read about my experience with them live.
Dirty Projectors: Graying, pudgy man in his 60’s (not a member of Dirty […]
