Words by Blake Gillespie
Photos by Bianca Garza

Since the signing of Team Robespierre to our label, Impose Records, the band has been described to me as notorious for its live set. Being that I am not a Brooklynite, like the majority of my Impose family, anticipation for …

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By Nate Dorr

Friday at Death By Audio was another entertainment4every1 production, with typically varied lineup, this one incorporating fully six out-of-town acts from four different cities (plus a local opener). If there was a loose unifying theme, it was various uses of electronics, but that’s definitely a very loose theme seeing as two acts involved nothing electronic at all.

Those …

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By Jeremy Krinsley

10:32 AM. 11 hours after Indian Jewelry ended a set that clawed through our aural cavities and followed us through two hours of sleep. My girlfriend dreamed of cell phones and computer screens defying the absence of batteries and electricity and light and pulsing with dementia-provoking super viruses. I had Robin Hood …

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Words by Blake Gillespie
Photos by Bianca Garza

I was too drunk to remember anything worth writing. Check out these dope photos and drop some comments.

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A Lesson in Rockstardom, Dating Super Models

Words by Andrew Rozas
Photos by Hatnim Lee

For decades, high school kids have made themselves feel cooler by smoking cigarettes. However, last week’s The Kills show at Webster Hall proved there is another way to feel that cool - just listen to The Kills. In the way that a Jackie Chan movie makes …

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By Jeremy Krinsley + Derek Evers

Forgive me for experiencing nostalgia for something my parents might remember. Ponderosa Stomp “exists to celebrate, pay tribute to, and teach the cultural significance of the unsung heroes and heroines of rock-n-roll, rhythm & blues and other forms of American roots music,” which means honoring careers that simmered in the sixties and seventies….

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Words by Blake Gillespie
Photos by Bianca Garza

Besides being a review of Jay Retard, this review is an exercise to see how many different ways I can use words that indicate swift movement and attack. Let’s Go!

First I would like to pull my own card and say that I learned something of value at this …

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By Nate Dorr

Street artist Judith Supine, known for greenish Ernst-like collaged figures, large-scale stunts (see Gothamist), and inspiring amusingly mixed reactions (see the comments on the Gothamist article), just had what I believe to be his first solo show. “Dirt Mansion”, which opened last week at Bushwick’s English Kills gallery, was the sort of show that could have gone …

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By Nate Dorr

It’s the end of the set, and Kevin Shea appears to be climbing his drum set. On the first attempt to ascend the kick’s curved top, he slips back a bit, but gripping first the snare, then cymbal, he makes it up. Behind him, Matt Mottel has abandoned his synthesizer and is holding …

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By Quincey Tran

I arrive at the Javits Center Saturday morning and I’m immediately greeted by a patrol of Stormtroopers who usher me and other fans into the convention center. We soon find ourselves corralled into a line that snakes through acres of the center’s cavernous hallways. The …

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