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Young Galaxy tour dates
Young Galaxy tour dates Sep 11 – Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue * Sep 12 – Winnipeg, MB – West End Cultural Centre * Sep 14 – Edmonton, AB – Starlite Room * Sep 15 – Calgary, AB – Republik * Sep 17 – Vancouver, BC – Commodore Ballroom * Sep 18 – Victoria, BC – Sugar Nightclub * Sep 20 – Seattle, WA – Neumos * Sep 21 – Portland, OR – Doug Fir Lounge * Sep 23 – [...]
Austra tour dates
Aug 26 – Stockholm, Sweden – Popganda Festival Aug 27 – Paris, France – Rock en Seine Festival Aug 28 – Groningen, Netherlands – Noorderzon Festival Aug 29 – Amsterdam, Netherlands – Heineken Music Hall * Aug 31 – Amsterdam, Netherlands – OT301 Sep 02 – Lyon, France – Woodstower Festival Sep 03 – Dorset, UK – End of the Road Festival Sep 04 – Dublin, Ireland – Electric Picnic Sep 05 – Manchester, UK – Deaf Institute Sep 06 [...]
Fruit Bats – Tripper album review
Tripper is a shoegaze album that recalls Vampire Weekend, with a few lazy acoustic guitar riffs. Eric Johnson’s voice has the high coyness of T-Rex’s Marc Bolan. The effect is one weird album. And, for a band from Austin, TX, perhaps this shouldn’t come as a surprise. At once dreamy, nostalgic, and surreal, Tripper doesn’t take itself too seriously. For an album so rife with sixties and seventies references, this irreverence is appropriate. It doesn’t sound too much like they’re [...]
Richard Buckner – Our Blood review
A great American storyteller is hard to find. In today’s world of LOL’s and text speak, someone that can paint a picture with their phrases should be cherished. I actually informed my little sister some years ago that if she expects a response to her emails she cannot “rite lyk dis lmao”. Similarly, it has been years since a powerful folk singer has shaken the scene, and Richard Buckner’s new album has returned to his country roots, revealing the inner [...]
Lavell Crawford – Can A Brother Get Some Love? review
If you’ve seen Lavell Crawford on season five of NBC’s “Last Comic Standing,” you know there is no subject too taboo for this performer. As a runner-up, also scoring rolls in “Chelsea Lately” and “Breaking Bad”, he is back in his hometown of St. Louis to captivate us yet again. You can’t help but notice that there is no nonsense or off-the-wall qualities about this comedian – he is just plain funny! With a set about his mama, the superpowers [...]
World Under Blood – Tactical review
World Under Blood’s new album, Tactical is pretty much self-explanatory. No frills or happy endings. Just a lot of yelling. Tactical is an album that proves much pain exists in the world and there are artists who are brave enough to tackle that pain. The tracks are extremely raw and rough. The brains behind the music, Deron Miller and Tim Yeung take their album to new levels of dark, grungy, loud and without a doubt heavy music. To an outsider [...]
Jurgen Muller – Science of the Sea review
When the first track of Jurgen Muller’s Science of the Sea begins, you are transported into a deep blue realm, replete with beluga whales and sea anemones. Muller, supposedly, was a student of marine biology over thirty years ago at the University of Kiel in Germany and was inspired to compose Science of the Sea, an audio expression of his fascination with deep-sea life. Several years later, Muller’s previously unrecognized work of art was rediscovered and has been re-released – perhaps to [...]
John Tejada – Parabolas review
Thirty seconds in and I’ve already fallen. Fallen for the mathematical term-named album, Parabolas from John Tejada. “Farther & Fainter” gave me a positive impression immediately. I felt like I was behind the scenes of a fashion show–the beat was perfect for the posh sashay of a runway model, posing for the flash of myriad cameras. Or could I have been shopping at Nordstroms, picking out cardigans in the Brass Plumb section? Either place, the beat is cool enough to [...]
Culprate – Flatline album review
Culprate, a one man-band electronic/experimental band signed to Dubsaw records, just released his maniacal album, Flatline. I actually have no idea who Culprate is, name-wise, he’s a mystery from Watford, England. The only real thing that is not a mystery to me is the man’s music. Void of vocals besides the very rare sprinkle of sample voices like on “Curious George,” which for brief moments seems like Culprate’s insane version of Madison Avenue’s “Don’t Call Me Baby” Spawned in 2008 [...]
Idaho – You Were A Dick review
Los Angeles based singer songwriter Jeff Martin, who records under the name Idaho, has just released a new record, You Were A Dick. On this record, Martin puts a very personal spin on heartfelt, simplistic songs. At times the album sounds like you are looking through a kaleidoscope with all the different song parts moving and morphing into something unconventional and appeasing, but not always that captivating. At times, songs like “Weigh It Down” carry the same mysterious sound of [...]
