Since their formation in 2005, English band The Horrors have managed to emerge from an interesting chrysalis of garage-influenced fright rock into a fully-formed band with a true career of note. Newest release Skying finds The Horrors awash in dreamy, impassioned songwriting less anchored to their influences and more out to sea, creatively speaking, than […]
Seattle band Virgin Islands have perfected the nearly lost art of urgent, angular post-punk intertwined with lyrics as razor-sharp as they are eloquent. Front man Michael Jaworski has always worn his convictions on his sleeve in bands like The Cops; with newest project Virgin Islands, he’s perfected the language of poetic unrest with a mighty […]
The jury is still out on how I feel about Blood Pressures, the newest album by The Kills. It’s complicated. I do know for certain that I love the band The Kills, and in this case the sum of their parts is enough to keep me listening, as well as quick to score tickets to […]
Seapony sounds like Seattle’s thoughtful answer to Lush, only more bubblegum and able to master a restrained “three minutes max” format better than the UK band ever could. They’re definitely a sentimental-on-a-sunny-day type of outfit and the only band at The Crocodile last Friday night that contained no shred of eighties machinations. Although Seapony is […]
If DeVotchKa did not exist, the world of music would be a much paler, less interesting place. It’s comforting to know that from time to time – most recently every three or four years – Nick Urata and his multi-instrumentalist friends and bandmates will put something new out there, something that’s been quietly aging like […]