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 […]

In celebration of their current tour (and recent release from the grips of Indianapolis) I’ve decided to share Clipd Beaks. Featuring our very own Greg Pritchard, along with Nic Barbeln, Ray Benjamin and Scott Ecklein, Clipd Beaks originally formed in Minneapolis back in 2003, and they are now spread between Oakland and Los Angeles. While […]

What do you get when you mix together glitter, plush toys, roses, and a bubble machine; add a dash of fake blood, and equal parts New Order and Nu Metal? Sound like a disaster? Nope- it’s a little bit of magic called Spider Problem. Everything about this band is something of a contradiction, and that’s […]

I like noise. I’ve always been a sucker for well-crafted distortion, feedback and fuzz pedals. It’s best in a live setting, where the noise surrounds you. It’s a fantastic sensory assault when you’re pulled deep inside to where the melody is nestled, something like the eye of a hurricane.
Yo La Tengo is a husband and […]

How excited am I to be writing about 1990s? So excited. Record shopping this weekend, (Rhino in Claremont- sorry Frank!) I just wasn’t finding anything I was looking for. I just happened to pick this record up, and it was the best thing that I could have found.
Ex-Yummy Fur frontman John McKeown and Michael McGaughrin […]