Month: March 2012

ISLANDS RELEASE DARKLY HUMOROUS NEW VIDEO

Acclaimed modernist pop band Islands have released a darkly humorous and highly atmospheric video for the upbeat and melodic song “Hallways” from their acclaimed new Anti-Records release A Sleep & A Forgetting. The clip features the band’s singer-songwriter Nick Thorburn performing with, and then joining, an exuberant band of skeleton musicians. [youtube Czi0F_Ovaws nolink] The…

NEW VIDEO FROM CAPYBARA

To celebrate the release of their new album Dave Drusky (The Record Machine), Kansas City’s Capybara has shared a gorgeous live version of “Neighbor Crimes,” shot at the For The Love of Brooklyn house in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. The gents of Capybara Mark Harrison, Jared Horne, Darin Seal, and Joel Wrolstad craft their art with…

Science!, Two Guitars Live

You very rarely get what you ask for, and most of us know this all too well. Just like Michael Douglas in “Falling Down”, we’re simply unimpressed and more than a little bit annoyed that the burger looks absolutely nothing like the poster. Science!, an inspired acoustic duo from Seattle, must have had this in…

RANDOM STABBINGS & ARTLESS CRITIQUE, MARCH 2012

          Every Time I Die, Ex Lives (Epitaph Records) Buffalo NY skate-metal meatheads ETID haven’t been this fierce in a while, even if the melodic singing in the enclosed “I Suck” bums out any grindcore purists.   But who cares anyway; it’s hard to avoid by-the-book primordial emo if you’re trying…