Introduction: Literary Journalism from the Inside I burned holes in the VHS of the original Star Wars trilogy. My uncle saw Stars Wars Episode IV: A New Hope seventeen times in the theater when it came out in 1977 because most homes didn’t have the Read More …
The cover of St. Vincent, the self-titled fourth album from Annie Clark, posits the multi-instrumentalist as some sort of galactic empress or cult leader, glowering impressively from her throne. It’s a fitting image for this, an ambitious, monolithic collection of songs that, for all its Read More …
Deadshirt Is Listening… Bringing you a rundown our staff and guest contributors’ favorite new tracks released in the past week after they’ve had the weekend to blast them in their cars, in a club, alone in their rooms, etc. Dominic Griffin is scrunch facing to: “Animal” Read More …
On Halloween 2013, Too True, the third full-length album by LA band Dum Dum Girls, was announced. When reporting it, Pitchfork jokingly called it “Bangerz: Goth Edition” noting the similarities between poses of lead singer Dee Dee Penny and Miley Cyrus on their respective album Read More …
It’s here. It’s finally here! After months of buzz generated by songs posted online, stellar live shows at SXSW, and tons and tons of blog posts, (including one of my own) the synthpop trio Chvrches finally released their debut full-length album. The hype surrounding this Read More …
I personally love it when a band isn’t afraid to let its influences show through in the music they make. Maybe it’s because I’m a music geek and I like to see what things I can recognize, or maybe it goes back to the fact Read More …
How many bands can you think of that have been around for 20+ years and continue to make good music? There aren’t many of them. Most of the time a band doesn’t stay together for that long, and if they do, the quality of their Read More …
Coined by psychiatrists, a paracosm is an imaginary fantasy world developed in a child’s mind that can last for a prolonged period of time. Paracosm is also the title of this album and based on its definition, is a pretty apt characterization of the sound Read More …
Okay so this album, Silence Yourself, by Savages, has been out for almost 3 months already and it’s taken me that long to collect my thoughts in order to present a somewhat coherent review of this album. All right, here it goes: this album is Read More …
King Tuff’s Was Dead is an album that plays on the trend of recreating and modernizing popular sounds from past decades – a trend that probably all of the popular music consuming population (myself included) are suckers for. If you don’t believe me, just take a Read More …