Friday Night of Washtenaw County, Michigan’s coldest festival brought together the Greater Mitten’s budding talent and Brooklynite refugees.
Photos by Bianca Garza
Words by Blake Gillespie
Mittenfest is a fundraiser for 826Michigan and my only reason to stop in Ypsilanti, MI in my eight years of scouring in the Northern Ohio/Southern …
A curtailed “Conceptual Carwash,” courtesy of the Chicago Police Department
By Will Deitz
In December, a small warehouse slightly east of Bucktown, Chicago played host to a show titled the “Conceptual Carwash.” The warehouse had been decked out with hanging strips of toilet paper to indeed look like a gigantic Autobell, with video art playing …
Since we are talking about thousands of images here, we have decided to chop our offerings into bite-sized pieces. Below is the best of our year in photograhy, part three….
Since we are talking about thousands of images here, we have decided to chop our offerings into bite-sized pieces. Below is the best of our year in photograhy, part two.
[Double Dagger, Edan, big …
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Wed Jan 7, 2009
A while back we asked this cat Theophilus London if he would be interested in doing a record with us. He kindly let us know that he’s already got a mixtape in the works and that his “representatives” would be in touch. Next thing we know, he’s having a party to celebrate the release of The Charming …
Wed Jan 7, 2009
14 and 15 year old guys from rural Texas (read: suburbs of Dallas) making washed-out guitar pop. I didn’t know they were quite that young until looking them up, but the initial pleasure in this music definitely grows when attached with bullshit notions of the immediacy of youth, fuck-it Garage Band production values, etc. Only …
Wed Jan 7, 2009
For some reason hip hop just went nuts on us over the last two weeks and released about …
Wed Jan 7, 2009
RollingStone.com reveals nine swanky fellers profiting in this distopian print armageddon in an article titled “how to save rock & roll.”
There are Ali and Hadi Partovi of iLike.com, that most obvious of domains you may have considered buying one wasted evening back in college, whose cool $15 million off a Facebook app has nothing on their winning …
Tue Jan 6, 2009
P.O.S. returns to Rhymesayers with a solo record and tours with his Doomtree collective
For two years P.O.S. has been on the road opening for Atmosphere, hitting the Warped Tour circuit and fronting a second movement in Minneapolis with his Doomtree crew.
If you’re not behind the wheel, the road is a great place …
Tue Jan 6, 2009
I’ve noted this before, but Microkingdom serves as an excellent reminder of the multi-faced nature of the city of Baltimore. While the city has seen its absurdist art/rock scene explode in the last few years, the less party-friendly avant/improv scene has continued on its way relatively unchanged and under-noticed (even in our own take …
Tue Jan 6, 2009
Devo collaborated with Jermaine Jackson in 1982 for this track, “Let Me Tickle Your Fancy.” Apparently, there is a completely different version floating around digitally, but here is the one that appeared on a promotional split 12″ with Rick James’ “Hard to Get”. Both tracks scraped the US R&B Billboards at the time.
Jermaine Jackson …
Thu Dec 25, 2008
The Nevari Butchers, Arms And Everything Else (Hanson)
Mark Mcguire, An Old Hag’s Cackle Pt. II (Cylindrical Habitat Modules)
TwistyCat, Bore Hole (Baked Tapes)
Telecult Powers, Kiss the Viper’s Fang (Obsolete Units)
Cold Turkey, Dirty (Hermitage)
Ducktails/Mudboy, Summer Of Saucers (DNT)
Steve Hauschildt, Rapt for Liquid Minister (Arbor)
Emeralds/Tusco Terror, X-mas 2007 (Tusco Embassy)
Slasher Risk, Vole (Abandon Ship)
Bottomfeeder, Bottomfeeder (Wintage)
List compiled by Jesse DeRosa, …
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Franz, the moustached keyboardist of The Hold Steady, goes the solo route this month with the album Major General on Fistolo Records. In the meantime, he doesn’t want you to be an asshole.
Franz Says: Don’t Be An Asshole While You’re Alive, or, On Ambition & Immortality
“We’ll all sit around talking about …
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