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MICROWAVE ONLY: Here’s What Survived Surfer Blood’s Market Hotel Show With Grooms, Turbo Fruits, Beach Fossils and the Morning Benders

Photos by Turkishomework Each week we send Turkishomework out to capture a sliver of our city’s blurred-vision nightlife. And boy was it blurry on Saturday night, as Surfer Blood topped a beyond-packed Market Hotel bill that also featured Turbo Fruits, Beach Fossils, Grooms and the Morning Benders. Or as Turkishomework wrote on her Twitter at […]

NOW PLAYING: Mountains, ‘Etching’

The Details: Mountains, Etching (Thrill Jockey, 2009) A Short Review: Our favorite drone-on duo cut this 38-minute track in one live take and pressed it on 1,000 hand-stamped LPs last year. Now that every one-of-a-kind copy is gone, they’ve finally released it as a high-quality download. And while $9.99 may seem steep for one song, […]

A QUICK TALK WITH … Wild Beasts

By Arye Dworken Some bands are inherently masculine. Some bands are inherently feminine. Britain’s Wild Beasts are claiming the distinctive androgynous zone found somewhere between the two. This is mostly due in part to singer Hayden Thorpe’s voice which alternates between wildly flamboyant or lecherously creepy. He’s undoubtedly the most distinctive vocalist singing rock music […]

FROM THE STACKS: White Hinterland

We get a lot of crap CDs at the self-titled offices. But once in a while, a pleasant surprise slips into our promo stack. Here’s a recent delivery that knocked the s/t staff on its collective ass.

FROM THE STACKS: Midnight Masses

We get a lot of crap CDs at the self-titled offices. But once in a while, a pleasant surprise slips into our promo stack. Here’s a recent delivery that knocked the S/T staff on its collective ass.