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: […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
1MM: Anti-Pop Consortium Reunion @ Knitting Factory Tap Bar, 3.22.08
Beans … smiling? Maybe this reunion ain’t a bad idea after all. Photos by Sarah Maxwell We’ve had some server problems the past couple days (apparently you people still can’t get enough of our Dan the Automator/Mike Patton interview), but everything’s looking mighty fine now so expect a slew of posts today starting with the […]
BUY IT, BURN IT, SKIP IT: The Black Keys, Colour Revolt, R.E.M.
THE BLACK KEYS: You don’t love me anymore, do you, Pat? 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 curious […]
NEW YORK CONVERSATION: Danava/Acid Mothers Temple/Frightened Rabbit, 3.25.08
Guitarist Kawabata Makoto of ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE & THE MELTING PARAISO U.F.O. The following is the first installment of how self-titled spends a typical night in New York … Andrew Parks: sooooo….scottish rock? Andrew Parks: the first thing im wondering is the turnout for frightened rabbit Aaron Richter: i think the scottish can sing just […]