It’s difficult to pinpoint exactly why, but something about Devendra Banhart’s music in general—but certainly the 16 tracks that comprise Thunder Canyon specifically—always sounds incredibly old. Is it the combination of sleepy tempos and...
Radiohead comes out on Wednesday, and no matter how much you decide to buy it for (and we here at GC think you should actually purchase it for some amount of money), you'll probably pay less than if you bought it at your local Wal-Mart. So what to do with that...
Yet another shock to the music industry came today when Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails announced that he is dropping out of the mainstream music industry, choosing rather to go it alone than to stick it through with longtime label Interscope. Reznor made the...
I’m reminded of the classic Married with Children episode: episode 0622 titled “The Good-Bye Girl.” Situated in front of his television set and encased between two wooden barricades was the alpha male himself, Al Bundy. Imagining his very own Parisian...
The Dirty Vegas’ head honcho, Steve Smith, has recently announced the release of his debut solo album, This Town. Seemingly taking cues from the online popularity of the acoustic version of “Days Go By”, Smith’s solo album includes a number of...
NegativlandOur Favorite Things CD & DVD(Seeland) It’s been over twenty years now since Negativland first took on the responsibility of subverting every audio medium in the world and tipping every sacred cow in sight. There have been lawsuits. There have been...
Anyone that has ever gone through anger and aggression therapy will recognize the sound on Scout Niblett’s fourth record in contrast with the one prior. Last time, on Kidnapped By Neptune, Niblett came unglued as she railed against a lover that had spurned her...
It’s almost unbearable to think about being in a room with the challenge of making something better than the Sony Bravia commercial that featured zillions of super balls bouncing oh-so-softly down the black-diamond streets of San Francisco. A follow-up to that...
Is it possible to walk into a crowd of 20,000 people and feel completely isolated? Conductors of crowd studies would probably say yes, although I don't think it takes very long for mob mentality to overrun our circuit protectors and bring us flush up against our...
For our seventh Lunarcast, we caught with up the latest addition to the Kemado family, Saviours. Hailing from Oakland, CA, their brand of metal is as precise as it is raw. There is this perfect balance of the gut-wrenching brutality, Ginsu guitar work that would make...