Tales from a Brave Ulysses
XVI. "The Divorce and the Sweetness, Sit me Down" On August 11, 2005, I came home from work at an advertising firm. It was…
Velella Velella
Velella Velella literally brings the party: Last night they came over to my underground basement apartment with a burn-off of the new album, plus two…
Comic Book Review: 365
Joe Alterio lives in Seattle now, but once struggled for existence as an aspiring animator in Los Angeles at the beginning of the century. In…
Tim Seely's Funeral Music
This album came to me with no information about Tim Seely and his apparent death (just kidding, check the title), but it did come packaged…
Tales from a Brave Ulysses
XVI. "Goodbye, Susan Sontag. You are dead now." I bought a book a while ago and it was very good. The best books begin…
Jim White
Jim White was an aspiring model when he was twenty-three years old. He was in Europe, waiting on another shoot, in a hotel room he…
Kinski CD release show
It can be hard to explain Kinski. Their sound is the sort of weighty thing that demands intense nouns, record-clerk-style: Krautrock. Psychrock. Steve Reich, Ash…
Got Your Number
Don't call 'em dirty. Ok, call 'em dirty — but only if you call 'em sweet too. The Hot Rollers play scrappy garage rock with…
Too Much Thinking Sinks Ships
You can just imagine the Binary Dolls at a hometown Portland bar, leader Nick Jaina extrapolating near the microphone, keeping a safe distance. Paul Alcott's…
We're Animals
For those who wouldn't know otherwise, listening to We're Animals might make San Francisco-based Numbers seem like a fresh new band to them — but…