Emerging from L.A’s all ages circuit with much deserved critical praise, Abe Vigoda are poised to take over 2009; take that post-high school malaise! While barely in their twenties Abe Vigoda has toured with legendary noise makers XBXRX, No Age and most recently M.I.A beat maestro Diplo. Coming off 2008’s noise/caribbean/shoegaze/angular art pop punk masterpiece Skeleton that Vampire Weekend wished they …
t is difficult to write about an album that centers it’s creative focus on the act of creation. Ore describes describes this album as “my meditation on feminine sacred invention, on sun worship in the moments before earth disintegration, on the proud miracle of creation in a trash-proliferation era.” Figure out that means and you …
INCA ORE – “BIRTHDAY OF BLESS YOU” (NOT NOT FUN, 2009) Read More »
So, the official commodifaction of what used be known as Indie Rock happened right under my nose. As pop punk and mall-core bowed out of the pre pubescent arena, the jocks that wore Saves the Day T shirts and listened to Taking Back Sunday took off their sweatbands and donned expensive jeans and collared shirts. They got …
BIRD NAMES – “OPEN RELATIONSHIP” (UNSOUND, 2009) Read More »
To say that Odd Nosdam occupies a unique place within the anticon universe is a misnomer. Nosdam, the one time director of the anticon collective, is arguably THE anticon sound. From his first experiments into dense, droning soundscapes that owe as much to Terminator X as they do to My Bloody Valentine to his genre defying work with cLOUDEAD, Odd Nosdam has done more to craft the post-hip hop …
Following up I am a Bird Now is no easy task. I’m not sure I have ever been struck so immediately by a singular feeling of melancholy running through the vein of an album. However, I felt the subject matter of gender identity and metamorphosis that I am a Bird Now took on was a little too insular and distant …
I am not really sure I know what instrumental Hip Hop is. I have been told that artists I like very much such as Prefuse 73, Flying Lotus, DJ Shadow, Alias, and J Dilla are instrumental hip hop. I am still not sure if a boundary line exists between the general corpus of electronic music …
Moving from Salt Lake City to Seattle I heard comments like “Seattle has the best music scene”, “There are so many great bands in Seattle”, “My friend is in a band in Seattle”. Since my relocation I can really only say the latter is true. Everyone is in a band, everyone’s friend is in a …
Smashing guitars on stage. Biting the heads off of doves. Mock on-stage electrocutions. Appropriation of fascist imagery. The stand-ins for our residual, repressed and displaced violence have served as ineffective shamen. Twisting and contorting the violence that runs red under the thin veneer of a social contract and the failed promise of upwards mobility that …
PUBLIC SPEAKING – CARESS, REDACT (FLOORDOOR, 2016) Read More »