Denmark’s New Politics is a fabulous combination of loud rap and even louder rock. The rock elements tend toward grunge and punk, and the way singers David Boyd and Søren Hansen position their vocals balances all these aspects effectively. Their debut, New Politics, was one of 2010’s very best, including ten leaping songs that are […]
Baby Monster, an excellent band from Los Angeles, opened for Klaxons at Chop Suey last year. I know, last year. What can I say? I fell behind in my editing and posting of photos. The duo also have nicely remixed Wolf Gang’s “Pieces of You”. Baby Monster – photos by Dagmar Gallery of Baby Monster […]
Lords of Acid has remained one the best bands to emerge from the ‘90s. They began as a project of the equally sublime Praga Khan [Maurice Engelen] and have so far released four albums, Lust, Voodoo-U, Our Little Secret and Farstucker, as well as several compilation/remix albums. Lords of Acid’s next CD is set for […]
I could tell that Swans were really happy about how Saturday night’s show went. And they should have been happy about it. While the audience applauded and moved to the music, there was very little – if no – conversation among the capacity crowd. Instead, they hung onto each lyric and note. Swans’ music can […]
On Friday night Brent Amaker and the Rodeo played their last Seattle date before heading to Texas for a string of dates surrounding SXSW (they’ll appear at the Velveeta Room for SXSW on March 16th). Alex Crick attended the show at the Crocodile and captured some beauties of the Rodeo and openers Virgin. Brent Amaker […]