AstroPOP! for October 2005
Your monthly imaginary horoscope told in album reviews!Libra (September 23 - October 23) Amber and topaz suit your magnetism, and this month gravity will be…
Outlaws, Rebels, Freethinkers, & Pirates
Buy It!{Fantagraphics} Bob Levin interviews artists, "...driven by the Hounds of Hell" (back cover hype), but he seems like a supernaturally feral mongrel himself, his…
Mome, Summer 2005
Buy It!{Fantagraphics} The Fall edition of "Mome" is almost out, so now is the time to tip possibly unaware TIG reading-frenzies to this brand new…
Music Lust
Buy It!{Sasquatch Books} {Live Music Lust: Music Lust Author Nic Harcourt to Appear at The Sunset on Thursday, October 27th, 2005 to Take Fans Through A…
Rakim Told Me: Hip-Hop Wax Facts, Straight From The Original Artists (The 80s)
Buy It!{Wax Facts Press} The first two twelve-inch singles I ever bought were "The Message" by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, and The Dead…
Tricked
Buy It!{Top Shelf Productions} "Tricked" is an absorbing graphic novel about rock music, and the complications of every day relationships that reflect the chaos and…
Between
There is a certain kind of grass grown in tropical Asia known as Vetiver that is known for its soothing properties — you might hardly…
The Way Things Work
This Unknown Instructors album is damned near San Pedro, Cali's WHAT MAKES A MAN START FIRES? perfect. It's spoken word punk rock jazz — perfect…
The Fatal Flaw EP
This is a five-song taste of a new power pop band that has a solid pedigree — Lucinda Kruy sung and played guitar with Luna…
Warnings/Promises
Scottish band Idlewild will be in Seattle on September 30th at Neumo's. With each performance here, there seems to be a growing mutual love between…