Brought to us by Black Heart Procession’s Paulo Zappoli, Mr. Tube & The Flying Objects is a saxophone infused, distorted, digital, rhythmic galactica. According to the band’s website, their forthcoming album Listen Up! is supposed to capture: “the sounds of horns that drift through the back alleys of our ghettos. Pulsing and pumping sounds from […]

To be released on September 12th on Sarathan Records, The Purrs newest album doesn’t actually contain any new material. The bulk of this 9 song album was previously released on 2005’s The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of, with two songs coming from their self-released EP No Particular Bar, No Particular Town.
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So Blake asks me to listen to this album. He says he thinks it’s “my style.” I thought I was the hippy around here, but whatever. I put it on and start doing a little bit of research and I immediately lose interest. That is to say, it wasn’t love at first […]

I was a huge jurassic 5 fan back in the day. When MTV’s $2 bill tour came through Baton Rouge, I was there. That’s actually a pretty funny story, they were the warm-up band for some R&B woman, but the entire audience left after j5 played and the mtv employees were stressing to us […]

Robbie Lee’s bio on I & Ear records begins with this proclamation, “I play everything on this record from the bells to the bass clarinet. The guitars are just the obvious part.” Though this crowing may come across as overly unabashed to many, Mr. Lee is not the first musician to “play everything” and […]

Danielson’s latest album, Ships, comes to us more than 10 years after Daniel Smith created the group as his senior thesis in art school. Since then his musical voyage has sailed through many monikers (Tri-Danielson, Br. Danielson, and Danielson Famile) and many albums, six to be exact. Over the years and at port […]

I have a problem with foreign language albums. For the most part I love listening to them, but I have trouble coming up with criticisms or praise for them. The problem, I believe, lies in the fact that I have no goddamn clue what the vocalist is saying. It usually boils down […]

Mike Patton has been unpredictable throughout his professional life. Announced in 2000, his “pop project,” known as Peeping Tom presented another unexpected detour after projects such as Mr. Bungle, Tomahawk, Fantomas, Lovage and the bizarre solo release Adult Themes for Voice. Similarly, few probably expected the project to take six full years to reach shelves. […]

My dad has played bass for 30 years and he somehow just found out about Les Claypool. He called me one day to tell me he wanted to go to a Primus concert and I laughed at him. I told him to download some of the music before he made a decision like […]

Chris Cohen, Deerhoof’s bassist/guitarist, announced yesterday via the band’s Myspace stating that he was leaving the band to dedicate more time to The Curtains, his first band.
How do I say this? For me, it’s big news - I’m not going to be in Deerhoof anymore.
As hard a decision as it was - I loved […]