I’ll admit that I was intrigued when Langhorne Slim’s self-titled debut landed on my desk last week primarily because Malachi DiLorenzo, a schoolmate from my hometown, produced and plays drums on the record. Add to that the instant ambiguity about the artist (Is it a man? Is it a band?) and rumblings about mature, dirty, […]

Whoever said “life is a marathon, not a sprint” was clearly not a Tokyo Police Club fan. The boys from Newmarket, Ontario blast through 11 songs in just 28 minutes on their first full-length offering, Elephant Shell, out on Saddle Creek April 22. Setting land-speed records for smart post pop-punk is business as usual for […]

I’ve never been shy to spew the occasional Pitchfork hate, more so because of the ubiquitous nature of the site’s influence and how it represents the yuppie-ization of my beloved underground scene than because I have a problem with the writing or the people doing it. I was pretty interested, for many reasons, in how […]

My most recent nonfiction read was Clinton Heylin’s From the Velvets to the Voidoids: The Birth of American Punk Rock, which, as the title handily states, covers the New York rock scene form the late 60’s through the early 80’s. It’s one of a few books on that time period that I’ve devoured in the […]

Now that I’ve spent a bit of time with the New Pornographers’ forthcoming Matador release, Challengers, I’m crawling into a songwriting void and never picking up a guitar again. Add in Ryan Adams’ and Spoon’s recent releases, and its clear that the gods of song craft have drained the talent pool into other vessels.
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