“Chemical Chords is their first album proper since 2004’s Margerine Eclipse (if you discount the EP collection of 2006, Fab Four Suture) and it features thirteen songs by Laetitia Sadier and Tim Gane and one solo Gane composition, as well as string and brass arrangements from Sean O’Hagan.” (via) I’m pretty sure I probably don’t […]

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Short reviews can be funny. The hands-down best one ever was by J.D. Considine in Musician magazine back in 1982 for his review of GTR’s self-titled debut. It read “SHT.” Pure gold. Pitchfork’s review today of Black Kids’ Partie Traumatic is not so clever. It’s a picture of an LOLdog with “Sorry” pasted on it […]

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This was left as a comment on a previous post about Saul Williams selling out. The video is crap, but it is interesting to hear him try and justify his selling out to Nike after being so outspoken against corporations, child labor, etc.

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“Shoegaze is a dumb term made up by clueless NME idiots,” argues Mogwai’s Stuart Brathwaite, a My Bloody Valentine fan as well as a friend of its architect Kevin Shields. “It’s pretty demeaning as well. If someone called us shoegazers, I’d be pretty unhappy.”

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Radio Silence documents the ignored space between the Ramones and Nirvana through the words and images of the pre-Internet era where this community built on do-it-yourself ethics thrived. (via)

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New album out in September! Love me some Emiliana. (via)

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Gawker’s Hamilton Nolan correctly calls for a moratorium on the term “indie”, especially when applied to musicians who willfully seek out any possible cross-market corporate tie-in in order to sustain so-called “independence.” Or as Nolan succinctly states: …to sell a single freaking song in today’s environment, musicians must rush around bootlicking every monster corporation of […]

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