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Feb 12, 2012 • Celebrating the release of their debut record, Rad Times Xpress IV for Drag City, brand-new outfit Black Bananas brought their soul-skuzzing, dance-oriented garage sound to the Echo for a record-release show last week with the rather good Pink Mountaintops supporting. Formed from the ranks of RTX, the BB project is led by glammer Jennifer Herrema,...
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Feb 12, 2012 • With the new year comes the return of the KCRW/Spaceland-presented First Fridays concert series at the Natural History Museum in downtown Los Angeles and after missing the January installment with punks-turned-culture-clashers Mariachi El Bronx heading the bill, I vowed the February set would make my calander. A lively and always worthwhile event, the First Fridays series plays host to...
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Feb 11, 2012 • I usually don’t repost content, but this little gem from Dangerous Minds was just too good to pass up. After the suicide of their revered singer Ian Curtis in 1980, the surviving members of Joy Division- still having plans for a debut American tour in their minds- regrouped as New Order and took an extended...
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Feb 8, 2012 • Returning again for the Fat Cat label, somber Scottish trio The Twilight Sad deliver a pensive 42-minute swath through recoil that will no doubt give longtime fans of the group something to talk about once it snaps back to ears. Bred on what felt like a mixture of their homeland’s noted impact on post punk...
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Feb 3, 2012 • Togethers, babes err sisters Taraka and Nimai Larson record as the surreal pop experimenters Prince Rama. Trust Now, their fifth longplayer is currently out now for Paw Tracks. This inclusion to the list is not because of that though (we already did that one), but due to what’s on the other side of those quotation...
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Jan 12, 2012 • Many, many people were lucky enough to see James Murphy and his LCD Soundsystem play and many, many people know how it felt when he called it a day and all of us cramped up online in search of one, hell any “Buy Now” link for the Madison Square Garden shows. Refresh! Refresh! DAMN! That...
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Jan 12, 2012 • Thee Physical, the fantastic sophomore release that dropped last year from Denver’s cosmic teckno maker Pictureplane (nee Travis Egedy) made our (and many others) list for top longplayers of the year so that 11-tracker you should already know and love. Being that another calendar year is newly upon us and a slate cleaner for nights to get ripped...
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Jan 9, 2012 • For the second performance of the debut Remote Spaces show at the Oura timberyard in NSW, Jack Ladder performed sans Dreamlanders an aurally mesmerizing set of selections from his stunning release, HURTSVILLE. Watch the entire 30-minute performance above. Jack Ladder and the Dreamlanders’ single “Cold Feet” is available for FREE right here. Holloweyed Music will...
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Jan 6, 2012 • The ever-innovating crew over at Мишка have dropped another banger. Time Debt is the latest split release from their record arm and features the work of Kansas City trio C V L T S (no not that CULTS, that one isn’t good, listen to this C V L T S) and Virgin Spirit. The Amdiscs trio does...
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Jan 2, 2012 • The year in review is always hard and with all the great and original releases that were issued this year, 2011 was by far the hardest of calendars to sort out and rate. Fringe genres explored popular confines (Chillwave, Witch House) punk went pop and weird (Fucked Up, Thee Oh Sees), hip-hop went pop and weird (Shabazz,...
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Dec 22, 2011 • Short list here; for me, 2011 was not the year of the EP. I hung under albums and Bandcamp-ed collections so when it came to look at this list, I felt a little embarrassed for myself that I hadn’t sought out more bite-sized sets of plastic and bits, but hey, these things happen. The Holloweyed’s top 11,...
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Dec 21, 2011 • In the introduction to the Radio Dept.‘s fantastic 2010 tune, “Heaven’s On Fire,” there’s a sample from the ’91 film The Year That Punk Broke wherein Thurston Moore says “People see rock and roll as, as youth culture, and when youth culture becomes monopolized by big business, what are the youth to do? Do you,...
