*PS (Pre-script!) I originally wrote this back in December, but never published it. However, I am posting it now for Bootsy. Okay Bootsy, have at it!
Hailing from trusty old Manchester, the two members of Ting Tings originally formed the band Dear Eskimo back in 2006 with a 3rd member. After having lost the 3rd, Jules […]

Whenever I go through Claremont I always stop at Rhino Records. I can usually find one or two new releases I simply can’t pass up. This is my new favorite thing. The hard part is deciding which songs to post, because there’s not a single low point on the record. I may have to post […]

Nick Harte’s mother used to play My Bloody Valentine for him when he was a tot. Apparently when she gave him 1991’s Loveless, that pretty much cinched it, and he began experimenting with his own sounds. Only 22, his current project that he writes and records himself, Shocking Pinks, borrows heavily from a […]

Okay, much like I heralded 1990s, here is my new favorite thing. MGMT, pronounced “Management” are a crazy and sarcastic couple of guys who met at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. Currently on tour with Yeasayer, they will be playing The Echo on Jan. 26. in support of their just-released debut record, Oracular Spectacular. Produced by […]

The first time I heard Richard Hawley, it was in December a few years back, and it really hit the spot. It was the most fitting record I’d heard all season. It actually sounded like cold weather. Like gleaming street lights above cold city sidewalks. Like walking […]