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SOUNDTRACKS OF OUR LIVES: Németh
Story by Stefan Németh Photo by Gerald Zahn My personal approach to film music is it’s often better to have less sound than too much. Film scores can have their own life, but they always have to serve the story in the movie first. This means I prefer to keep the sound as minimal as […]
THE SELF-TITLED INTERVIEW: Efrim Menuck
Words by Aaron Richter Efrim Menuck will be heard. As the guitarist and vocalist of his group, Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band (originally formed in 1999 as a side project to the legendary Godspeed You! Black Emperor), Menuck will release his fifth LP, 13 Blues for Thirteen Moons, which contains four […]
SxSW Spotlight: Fatal Flying Guilloteens
The Artist: Houston-based anti-heroes with a penchant for stage-diving and mic-swallowing. Their Latest Release: Quantum Fucking (French Kiss, 2007) The Showcase: French Kiss @ The Mohawk, 3.12.08 The Set in a Sentence: A blues hammer to the head that left a few bruises and a lot of spilled beer. And a Letter Grade: A Photos after […]
BUY IT, BURN IT, SKIP IT: Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra, Excepter, The B-52’s
SILVER MT. ZION: & the Tra-La-La Band, bitches [Photo by Mark Slutsky] By Aaron Richter As you all certainly know by now, new releases hit record-store shelves and digital-download services each Tuesday. So every week self-titled presents a new release you’d be stupid not to own (Buy It), one worth checking out if you’re the […]
A Place to Bury Strangers & Holy Fuck @ Music Hall of Williamsburg, 3.23.08
Text/Photos by Aaron Richter You know you’ve got something great going on when you can upstage a band as great as Holy Fuck. Brooklyn-based trio A Place To Bury Strangers did just that–on this final stop in the two bands’ recent tour together–by cranking their amps to an uncomfortably high volume, so loud we couldn’t […]
SxSW Spotlight: Thurston Moore’s Lou Reed Tribute
The Artist: The underground’s greatest living guitar god. Their Latest Release: Trees Outside the Academy (Ecstatic Peace, 2007) The Showcase: Lou Reed Tribute @ The FADER Fort, 3.13.08 The Set in a Sentence: One of the only signs of life in a rather stale paean to one of rock’s reigning nihilists. And a Letter Grade: […]
SxSW Spotlight: Pissed Jeans
The Artist: Philly’s finest sludge merchants. Their Latest Release: Hope For Men (Sub Pop, 2007) The Showcase: Sub Pop @ Bourbon Rocks, 3.14.08 Their Set in a Sentence: David Yow for a Y2K world as led by a guitarist that builds quite a fence of barbed wire chords despite looking like a teddy bear. And […]
THE S/T SCOOP: Liam Howlett of The Prodigy Reveals New Record Details
Well, sorta. Here’s what the Prodigy mastermind said to say about the still-unfinished affair during a lengthy interview, the entirety of which will be posted here soon: I’ve got the album title, which I can’t tell you. I’ve got the song titles, which I can’t tell you. I mean, I want to talk to you […]