Thanks to Kim Richey for guest editing our website all week. Be sure to check out her new album, Wreck Your Wheels. Here’s the very cool video for the title track.
Kim Richey spent the initial portion of her 15-year career chafing at various stylistic restraints, some self-imposed, others foisted upon her by others. Through the second half of the ’90s, the itinerant daughter of a Dayton, Ohio, record-store owner sampled and discarded various guises: new-country misfit (1995′s Nashville-friendly self-titled debut), Lucinda Williams in waiting (1997’s [...]
Hard to believe that this marks the 25th anniversary of the first Giant Sand album, Valley Of Rain. The Tucson, Ariz., band has had countless lineups over the years (John Convertino and Joey Burns of Calexico were longtime members), but the one constant has been singer/songwriter Howe Gelb. Giant Sand returns November 23 with Blurry [...]
This spring, the Beastie Boys are releasing Hot Sauce Committee Part 2 (Capitol), but it might as well be Hot Sauce Committee Part 1 (which has been delayed indefinitely), considering that the second installment’s tracklisting was revised and replaced entirely with songs originally recorded for part one. Confused yet? … Screenings of Look At What The Light [...]
Kim Richey spent the initial portion of her 15-year career chafing at various stylistic restraints, some self-imposed, others foisted upon her by others. Through the second half of the ’90s, the itinerant daughter of a Dayton, Ohio, record-store owner sampled and discarded various guises: new-country misfit (1995′s Nashville-friendly self-titled debut), Lucinda Williams in waiting (1997’s [...]
The members of Of Montreal were not the only ones bedecked in wigs, drag and glitter tonight. On the eve of Halloween, the fans rivaled the headliners in costume-contest categories such as most creative, best Janelle Monae impersonation and best “I’m supposed to be a nurse/fairy/policewoman, even though I’m wearing a four-inch skirt.” There was an [...]
Portland, Ore., experimental indie-rock sextet Blitzen Trapper has released the video for the dreamy “The Tree,” from Destroyer Of The Void (Sub Pop). A mashup of Jack and the Bean Stalk, Norse mythology and Goldilocks, it’s replete with twinkling dandelion puffs wafting around a gaggle of children frolicking up and around a mossy, Sears Tower [...]
Kim Richey spent the initial portion of her 15-year career chafing at various stylistic restraints, some self-imposed, others foisted upon her by others. Through the second half of the ’90s, the itinerant daughter of a Dayton, Ohio, record-store owner sampled and discarded various guises: new-country misfit (1995′s Nashville-friendly self-titled debut), Lucinda Williams in waiting (1997’s [...]
We’ve always been big fans of rock music coming from New Zealand. (Check out last year’s Lost Classics entry on the subject.) So we are thrilled to add Surf City to the list of Kiwi bands we love. The group’s debut album, Kudos, is out via the great Fire label on November 30, and it’s [...]
Every Saturday, we’ll be posting a new illustration by David Lester. The Mecca Normal guitarist is visually documenting people, places and events from his band’s 26-year run, with text by vocalist Jean Smith. By The River On A Sunny Day Meeting Veronica doesn’t see why her attraction to Mr. Cheese bothers Frank. Cheese rejected her. [...]
