The Lashes write astonishingly well-crafted pop songs, and that’s not something to be taken lightly. The Seattle six (!) piece’s somewhat unfortunately titled The Stupid Stupid EP is one of the best debuts I’ve heard in years and I’m astonished that songs this infectious haven’t gained wider recognition thus far. Of course the band isn’t […]
I remember when my father was teaching me how to drive stick. I was a pretty stubborn student and he wasn’t the most patient of teachers, so the entire experience was rather unpleasant. Communication breakdowns tend to happen when you’re poorly attempting something automotive and your dad’s both a fanatical car enthusiast and a mechanic. […]
There’s just as little innovation in the bare bones garage punk genre as there is in any other, but it’s always benefited from a more solid foundation of influences than many of the more popular mutations punk rock’s taken in the past few years. It’s disconcerting to see half the records that cross my doorstep […]
We need an authority who decides who will be allowed to put out compilations. Not necessarily anything too formal, certainly not a government body, but an authority nonetheless. They can live a solitary monk-like existence and raise abandoned children in their craft so we’ll always have some of these folks around. Then they […]
I was reading a beautiful diatribe of a record review the other day. It was overlong and epic in scope but chock full of interesting analysis, one of those love-letter reviews written by a die hard but critical fan. I love that stuff. it’s good reading. However I suppose I wasn’t too shocked to discover […]
