Just a year ago today, hundreds braved the cold rain and gathered on the grassy knoll of Bohemian National Cemetery to witness Circuit des Yeux's Haley Fohr (and friends) perform Nico's legendary debut solo album, Chelsea Girl, in its entirety. Rather than presenting a note for note covers set, Haley pushed the music further, to make it her own, whilst still remaining faithful and devoted to the source material. A truly amiable tribute emerged from the stage that pulsed like a silent... (read more)

Wand are constantly on the move - if not writing or recording, they're on tour in some country on some continent, heating up and burning down venues with their scorched-torch songs and inventive and propulsive take on rock. Earlier this year was the release of "Perfume" and a tour of the USA; come November, they head to Europe. In the meantime, they make stops at some of the finest radio stations that will host them, like they did last month at KEXP in Seattle. That... (read more)

In case you weren't resting comfortably at home last night, gazing blissfully into your television screen and tuned in to late night programming, we're here to tell ya with corroborating evidence - this John Mulaney fellow is quite the laugh-inducing character! Making a record ninth appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers last evening, John Mulaney sat down with his former SNL cohort to talk burglars, first dates, award shows, and winning an Emmy for his 'flix special, Kid Gorgeous at Radio City. Yep,... (read more)

Dead Rider Trio Featuring Mr. Paul Williams is a delightful smear of unlikely moments viewed in shadowy relief through a blood-stained lens. As the Dead Rider Trio crunk out the jams, Mr. Paul Williams opens his notebook and rants along, with well-trippy acid-tongued affect, producing a record unlike any other - even more so than previous Dead Rider records! This time, their caustic, blues-bent, beat-skipping rock is a canvas for Todd Rittmann to let full-loose with his six-string skills, going off like a hell-bent Roy... (read more)

Once again, Ty Segall and White Fence's Tim Presley have slipped the madness of the straitjackets they were fitted for years ago, and made a record not just of songs, but of climactic essence - a stretch of sequential time organized for entertainment's sake! Behold, Joy---their mind-meld complete, fizzy experimentations and sonorous bangers alike. Joy unrolls from within and in between them and electricity takes many forms, plunging from rock trips to acoustic strollers to poppy reveries to freak-downs at side's end.

UNDER THE BLUEBERRY JAM TREE

Summer 2018’s almost gone, but who cares? Every season has its good parts, and we’re inclined to stop and listen to ‘em, since life is but a brief prelude to an eternity...of SILENCE. So here we sit, trying to measure gravity by the speed v. distance a piece of fruit falls before it smashes into (y)our STUPID face. We’re the apothecary of this particular science, subphylum ‘music’. This fall, there’s a ton of it plunging from... (read more)

What exactly is in the water of the Ohio river?! Medical and animal (and human) waste, probably, but that doesn’t exactly explain how the collective minds of Cropped Out are able to put on such a killer line up each and every year! 2018 isn’t any different and once again the Drag City musical industrial complex pipelines directly to American Turners Club for an absolutely one-of-a-kind festival experience. This October 5th & 6th brings a wide variety of DC talent including Circuit des Yeux,... (read more)

What's that in the chimney? Whoah - its Dead Rider Trio in the house! Their sack is full of new musical gifts, all adorned with the addition of Mr. Paul Williams on vocals. This mysterious figure works in the film industry, was a once the manager of Crispin Glover - and he sounds like it!  His barbed dictation foregrounds the raucous jams that the DRT- Todd Rittman, White Christmas and Matt Espy - pour forth in spades, opening large open spaces in the primal... (read more)

Life is nothing but problems. It is truly mind-boggling! Check this one out - we've got a record dropping next week from John Mulaney called Kid Gorgeous at Radio City Music Hall. Great record, gonna do just fine! That's not the problem. Last night, John goes and wins an Emmy for Best Writing for a Variety Special - the variety special of the same name! And... ahhh! Couldn't this have happened sooner? We already wrote our promotional blurbs! They've all gone out already and it didn't... (read more)

In our time of America's greatest dismay, it takes "America's Funnyman" to show the way back to a little bit of love and a whole lot of classic entertainment. With vocal pipes alight and a full studio orchestra behind him, Neil Hamburger is Still Dwelling - and dare we say, better than ever, as he brings new life to some of the greatest songs of his era.

With Still Dwelling, the Hamburger touch is applied to a veritable potpourri of 20th century... (read more)