Your Music Sucks

Firewater first hit my radar back in 1998 or so, I didn’t know much about them, but I had Soul Coughing’s album “El Oso” on repeat at the time and I read somewhere that their drummer, Yuval Gubay, had collaborated on a new Firewater album called “The Ponzi Scheme”. Seemed interesting enough, but I never [...]

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Go, Go, Go see the band the Flaming Lips stole their act from (ya know, before the Flaming Lips became Steven Drozd, a dude in a zebra costume, and a guy in a white suit pretending to play guitar). This is the first time since 1998 that the Surfers will be playing with their classic [...]

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Where sound goes to die:

Terminal 5, Terminal 5… where to begin… well, I know this is asking alot, but please either burn yourself down or find another calling, you might make a nice Manhattan Mini Storage facility! I don’t know when I gave up on you exactly, maybe it was when you ruined the Beastie [...]

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Devotchka have gained in popularity over the past year or so due to the fact that they provided music for the film “Little Miss Sunshine”, and fittingly enough, both the film and the band share many of the same adjectives when you are searching for an apt way to describe them - quirky, heartfelt, imperfect… [...]

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I first listened to Dr. Dog back in 2004 when I read a post on the Matador Records website recommending them… whenever I am short on new things to listen to, there are a couple places I’ll stop by and aside from being a decent label, the Matador Records message board harbors one of the [...]

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For any fan of Silkworm, it’s impossible to listen to Bottomless Pit without remembering Michael Dahlquist - if not for the senseless tragedy that took his life, the band simply wouldn’t exist. Their new album “Hammer Of The Gods” will make for some bittersweet listening, as you can’t help but reflect on the “what [...]

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John Reis, much like Michael Bolton, I celebrate the man’s entire catalog. However, it was through Gar Wood that I was initially introduced to the endless number of bands Reis has created through the years… back in 1995 or so, I was working at Caroline Records in their accounting department hopelessly reconciling sales distribution records, [...]

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