Music From San Diego Tweet Reported by Katherine Sweetman Author & Punisher Announces New West Coast Tour Dates San Diego artist/ musician, Tristan Shone, is the man behind the madness. He will be flying solo, tearing through California, Washington, and Oregon in support of his forthcoming Seventh Rule Recordings debut, “Ursus Americanus” (due out in digital and digipak CD on […]
Author & Punisher Announces New West Coast Tour Dates
Three new iconoclasts from Polyvinyl
of Montreal thecontrollersphere Polyvinyl Records, 2011 www.polyvinylrecords.com Review by Kent Manthie After 10 great CDs by this genre-bending, androgynous outfit led by maestro Kevin Barnes, of Montreal has just released a little EP – thecontrollersphere, a five song experience that is typical of the gender-bending, hyper-sexual, disco-on-acid style wiggles that are at their peak in 2009’s Skeletal Lamping and 2008’s […]
Jumping Freight Trains to SXSW
Pinback’s Keyboardist Makes Alternative Travel Arrangements by Katherine Sweetman Jumping Fucking Freight Trains to SXSW Friday 1:39 PM: Braden is hiding in a four-foot, steel, triangular compartment inside a freight train in Tucson, Arizona. The train is stopped, and he’s hunched over his iPhone quietly typing responses to my questions. “…trying to lay low until this or some other train […]
GOP War on Women
[Email] Dame Darcy Counterattack “… Republicans have declared a war on women.” Sun, February 20, 2011 8:31:28 AM WAR ON WOMEN From: Dame Darcy Mailing List Dear Friends, It might seem hyperbolic to say that Republicans have declared a war on women. Sadly, it’s not. Just take a look at the top 10 shocking, crazy things Republicans have proposed in […]
Nia Yoga
[Fitness] What is Nia? HEALTH AND FITNESS article by Marilyn Mitchell Nia, Neuromuscular Integrative Action, is a fantastic aerobic workout, or as some have called it – “a fabulous spiritual sweat” – that blends movements, concepts and theories from diverse sources. Nia (pronounced nee-ya) uses the concentration and flow of tai chi, the dynamic poses and mindfulness of yoga, the […]
Evangenitalia
Urban Hillbilly Y’alt-Punk The Evangenitals, Introducing A New Americana by Reviewer Rob “… a unique presence in the neo-folk/freak-folk movement…” The Evangenitals are an LA alternative-country rock band (or y’alt-punk rock) that resists firm description. Upon first appraisal they appear to draw inspiration from country, hillbilly music, Southern spirituals/gospel and early 19th-century ship song as well as traditional Klezmer music […]
PDX busking
[First Person] Not An Englishman In New York, An Australian In Portland. By Kent Parkstreet. About seventeen years ago I was at a sound check at The Punter’s Club, a groovy inner city music pub in Melbourne, Australia. To get away from the noise I slipped next door to the public bar. It was unusually quiet. I looked up to […]
Emoview
Blue Skies For Black Hearts by Megan Trihey Patrick Kearns arrived out of breath five minutes before 9:30, a guitar case in one hand and his girlfriend’s hand entwined with his other. He just finished playing an acoustic set down the street at Backspace. Ten minutes later, Kearns and the rest of Blue Skies for Black Hearts were on the […]