Vladimir Nabokov, one of my favorite novelists published a story back in 1936 about a fictionalized Mediterranean town by the name of Fialta, where an enigmatic protagonist explores and obsesses over themes of vacation and […]
Bay Area retro-punks Shannon and the Clams latest album, Dreams in the Rat House sees it’s official release through Hardly Art Records today. “Rip Van Winkle” is the second single from the new album, and although […]
http://cdn.topspin.net/widgets/email2/swf/TSEmailMediaWidget.swf?timestamp=1369096816 Daughn Gibson‘s Me Moan had received quite a bit of attention for it’s mixture of brooding, old school country with the use of modern recording techniques – samplers, effect pedals, synths and the like. All Hell is the […]
Rllrblll (formerly known as Rollerball) was enlisted to take part of Silber Records 5 in 5 EP series – a unique EP series in which bands have to make a full fleshed 5 song EP […]
Feel No Other is a unique collaboration between Claudia Gregory of Exhaust the Fox and Brian Lea McKenzie of Electric Bird Noise. The duo recently took part in Silber Records unique project – the 5 […]
Mixhell is a collaboration between Sepultura’s former drumer Iggor Cavalera and his DJ wife Laima Leyton. “Exit Wound” which features vocals from the Dillinger Escape Plan’s Greg Picot is the first single from the act’s much anticipated debut […]
The Brooklyn-based electronica artist, Alex Burkat’s work has been largely inspired by house, techno, hip hop, indie rock, classical and New York’s current (and very vital) music scene. His work has also been known to […]
Luke Rathborne’s work has been marked with both the exuberance and restlessness of youth – some of which is inspired by his own unique life. Rathborne learned to play the guitar when a wayfaring stranger […]
Seattle Mariners vs. New York Yankees 5/16/13
Although last last Thursday was a lovely night, I was the Stadium for the last game of the Seattle Mariners series and it was a rather frustrating game, which had the Yanks losing with the […]
Chris Kittrell records and performs under the moniker of Baby Alpaca, and his first single, the slow-burning but hauntingly beautiful “Sea of Dreams” had over 50,000 streams in it’s first three weeks available. And although […]
As a child I grew up listening to quite a bit of disco and funk – Donna Summer was considered a goddess in my house, and Parliament Funkadelic, the ministers of funk. So when I […]
Liars are by far one of the most uncompromising and willfully strangest acts in recent memory. Their last album, WIXIIW, which Mute Records released last year and was on this site’s Best of 2012 list continued the […]
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As I’ve mentioned a couple of times here, I spent close to a year and a half focusing on the daily Black and White photography project, and admittedly it’s been a relief not to shoot […]
Sob Story, the soon-to-be released album from Spectrals not only shows a level of musical growth from brothers Louis and Will Jones, as the project has now become a full band; but it also shows […]
Coalmine Records just released a new single from Swedish DJ/producer duo Create and Devastate’s first single “Most Confident” featuring Stone Throw Records’ artist MED and Wildchild off Create and Devastate’s May 21st release Most Confident. It’s […]