The Raw Fun of It
[In The Red as well as the other bands who played that night also have reviews forthcoming. Stayed tuned... ~Ed.]
Review By Sean Ross
The Casbah, known for its seven-night lineup, pool table benches, and low flying jets, will always remind you that small venues are the best places for viewing shows. Where [...]
The Experiments
What Kind of Animal
Review by Sean Ross
The Experiments latest and free album What Kind of Animal quickly asserts itself as pop-punk teeming with classic sounds familiar to the tortured underage urban wanderers of the late seventies and early eighties—only, much tighter and impressive, more now. Songs are replete with stylized guitar punctuations, absurdly succinct [...]
New Concept
Stomp!
www.new-concept.net
Esox Music
www.esoxpop.com
Reviewed by Kent Manthie
There’s a new band in town, just off the Lufthansa jetliner from Germany: New Concept sound like they just stepped out of a time warp from a club in what was then West Berlin, circa 1982. Maybe the members were catching a show [...]
Of Montreal
False Priest
Polyvinyl Records, 2010
Reviewed by Kent Manthie
What’s in a name? Plenty, if you’re Kevin Barnes. False Priest is his tenth blissful CD, released under the moniker of Montreal. Unfortunately, I was a Johnny-Come-Lately when it came to discovering this project, but then again, they hardly ever come [...]
I Love Cemeteries!
story and photos by Jessica Delfino
New York City
Signs posted on splintery wooden poles and rusty metal stated “No Loitering” and I knew they were speaking to me. It almost seemed like the teens of my town were hated, like dirty mistakes, and that adults hoped that we would just disappear. So we did.
If [...]
Video: Crystal Renn Dances ’round The Block
Art + Commerce hips us to many things.
from fordmodelsblog.com.
Art + Commerce hips us to many things. Their formidable portfolio of campaigns, their roster of photographers, and then there is their blog, which today of all grey days served a peach of a video featuring Crystal Renn shot by photographer Skye Parrott on set for the [...]