All Entries in the "Music" Category
PUJOL Nasty, Brutish and Short CD/LP
PUJOL’s Daniel Pujol releases teaser records the way Ariel Pink, the Mae Shi, and the Beatles used to release LPs—his EPs and singles have been in constant supply over the last couple of years, and he’s gotten quite lucky, as an early-20-something to get picked up by Jack White’s Third Man label while still in [...]
TY SEGALL Goodbye Bread CD/LP
Ty Segall could arguably be the most talented member of the current wave of San Francisco based garage/psychedelic bands. Over the last five years, Segall has spent time drumming in Sic Alps, Party Fowl and The Traditional Fools as well as recording with Mikal Cronin and contributing to Thee Oh Sees’ Castlemania. But it’s Segall’s [...]
TOTIMOSHI Avenger CD
Totimoshi’s latest, Avenger, is a cannily conceived and executed, and ultimately a wholly pleasant listening experience. They have reintegrated the multiple strains of style that grew out of 1970 era hard/heavy music into a solid but stylish statement. So most songs ALL bear hints of acid-rock psychedelicism in the lead guitar work, the dramatic and [...]
THE SPITS (Fifth Album) CD/LP
The Spits—the brothers Sean and Erin Wood and a rotating cast of drummers and keyboard players—have been a band for seventeen years now. Granted, it has only been the last ten years since they’ve steadily released records (the seven years before that spent producing absurd, strange, and hilarious productions for cable access television), but the [...]
NOOTHGRUSH Live For Nothing CD
Another bewildering/awesome Metal band name. Live For Nothing is a respectable document of a grey-fated SF Sludge band from the 90s—who have reformed to play “reunion” shows (though I know they are secretly just “shows” in their mind). Though it’s a mix from a couple of live radio performances, the songs themselves are LP-worthy tight [...]
MANNEQUIN MEN s/t LP
If you’ve never spent much time in the Middle Western United States, the thing you need to understand is that there are literally hundreds of bands in this part of the world trying and failing at doing what Mannequin Men have tried and succeeded at with their latest album. Whereas all these hamandeggers graduated from [...]
THEE OH SEES Carrion Crawler/The Dream CD/LP
One of the band’s biggest assets is their ability to sound human. This isn’t an odd choice of word—when plenty of artists record digitally and the details are flawless in every which way, or those on low budgets record to tape but sound like they’re three rooms away, Thee Oh Sees manage to make every [...]
DJ SHADOW The Less You Know The Better CD/LP
The California-bred turntablist in 1996 churned out Entroducing, which defined the genre and set his own personal bar so high he hasn’t yet recovered. DJ Shadow seemed intent through the years to simply create and let it fall where it might. He made music for DJ Shadow and if some folks came along for the [...]
THE BOMBAY SWEETS s/t 12″ EP
Singer-guitarist and former Selby Tiger Nathan Grumdahl, alongside drummer Jeff Brown, has put together an EP that serves as the Bombay Sweets’ big debut, “big” being a relative term, as this six-song set clocks in at fifteen minutes. The pair offers a style of rockabilly that’s got very little of the attitude that typically comes [...]
PINK REASON Shit In The Garden CD/LP
It has been a few years since Kevin Failure released Pink Reason’s debut Cleansing The Mirror and while, over the years, he was kind enough to offer a few singles here and there, nothing comes close to what Failure has accomplished with Shit In The Garden. Much has been written about Failure’s depression and how [...]