Loney Noir
Ah, Sweden: birthplace of cheap furniture, bearer of great meatballs, and bringer of wondrous pop music like fluttering delicate snowflakes. Sub Pop's latest release comes…
A Very Merry Imaginary Karaoke Bash!
Three Imaginary Girls, Barsuk Records, and Sub Pop Records present a Very Merry Imaginary Karaoke Bash featuring members of Math & Physics Club, Iceage Cobra,…
Skelliconnection
The Rules to Being a True Artist: Rule #1: You must never quite find yourself. Rule #2: You must always search nevertheless. Chad VanGaalen is…
The Body, The Blood, The Machine
It has been about two months since I originally plunked the new Thermals album The Body, The Blood, The Machine into my CD player and…
Cansei de Ser Sexy
Let's play a game of time travel. Slide backwards through time to the year 1-9-9-0 A.D. You're in the city of Seattle and you stagger…
Echoes of the Past
If you love your rock and roll dark and heavy yet accessible, full of Mojo Rising and Ex-Catholic Voodoo and biting power chords and Charlie-Watts-on-speed-drumming,…
Avatar
Maybe we’re approaching some sort of vast rock and roll event horizon. If we reach this theoretical moment, anyone who travels too far beyond the…
The Body, The Blood, The Machine {first impression}
{ed note: this was originally written in August, 2006. Since then Erik, the writer, has updated his opinion of the record. Thank goodness as it's…
AstroPOP! for June 2006
Your monthly imaginary horoscope told in album reviews!Gemini (May 21 - June 21) The duality of Gemini can be a dark and painful thing, as…
AstroPOP! for May-June 2006
Taurus (April 20 - May 20) Taurus is full of life, vivacious, often brilliant, but ultimately so healthy she may scare lovers with frail psyches.…