The excitement is palpable in the New York apartment where Patience Hodgson – lead singer for The Grates – is temporarily residing. Currently in North America to do a short string of appearances at festivals and one-off shows in Canada and the United States...
You dirty, dirty boys. You started with four, grew to eight, cut down to three, and now go by the name of Scratch Perverts. The three of you, Tony Vegas, Prime Cuts and Plus One, must put in a lot of work when you go through almost forty songs in an hour and twenty...
"Your names aren't on the guest list. Sorry." I'm supposed to talk to Thurston Moore, and quite honestly, I felt like I was in over my head even before this particular neutron bomb exploded. The box office attendant at Philadelphia's Electric...
How is it that The Dead Weather has come to be regarded as “Jack White's new project?” Granted, there's no arguing that White is an important element in the band (he gets co-writing credit on seven of Horehound's eleven songs) but he is the...
While it can be easy to side-step the recognition of common themes or repetitive behavior in human actions, the longer a set maneuvers reoccur, the harder it gets to ignore until finally one must either recognize the comedy of the repetition or risk being dismissed as...
This is part one of a three-part series on the 2009 Vans Warped Tour. Parts two and three are coming soon. After a totally stellar experience at last year's tour stop in San Francisco, to say that I was stoked about covering this year's installment of the Vans...
It's been a very, very long time since the heart and soul of Motown got any play or even a fraction of the respect it's due. Recently, the closest that anyone comes is some know-it-all pop tart or producer playing taxidermist with the genre and adding ample...
For the average, jaded audiophile born and raised on a steady diet of radio and trash culture, few things are so instantly captivating than glitch music. It seems to function like static sound on the outside, but treading even slightly below the surface reveals a...
I wasn’t sure what to expect for my first session at the Roxy in Hollywood. To go to a place where some legendary people have played is always fun for me. Of course the dark-dungeonous feel of the inside, with black and white portraits of legendary artists was...
There's something heart-warming about a home-made item. When one receives a home-made gift, most recipients tend to be doubly touched because they recognize the effort and delicacy put into the crafting; it's special because of the time and thought expenditure...