So I took a week off, so what. My laptops’s dying. But injustice will spur a blogger back to action. For me, P-fork’s 8.4 rating for Dinosaur Jr.’s new album Beyond is so wildly overinflated and off the mark that this one review might be the moment when p4k jumped the shark. I certainly won’t […]
Whaddya know, something to love: Up until today, when I learned that former Ride drummer Loz Colbert would be playing with the reunited Jesus and Mary Chain on their US live dates, I hadn’t really been excited about or even concerned with the reunited J&MC. In their day, they put on some pretty shitty shows, […]
In Against the Day, Pynchon’s Icelanders season their ‘meat olaf’ with a violently-hot salsa labeled “Cuidado Cabron!” I’m such an easy laugh. Pynchon remains the best example of what a human being can do with launguage, sentence to sentence, and I have a feeling that many of this book’s reviewers may have been too stunned […]
If you ever doubted that ADA was truly independent of Warner Brothers, here’s proof that ADA’s parent organization sometimes racketeers the unit shifters: The Arctic Monkeys’ new album, Favourite Worst Nightmare, will not be released on Domino Records, as planned, but is now a late inning change to Warner Brothers Records. Translation: Less indie stores […]
I’m repairing my washing machine while listening to Jandek’s Glasgow Monday. Jandek is reminding me that some people have it worse. Speaking of disturbed Texans: Since the prez played politics with it first, with his self-serving and needless press conference yesterday, I feel no shame at saying the V-Tech massacre makes me once again furious […]
Mirrored, forthcoming uber-hyped album by Battles, somewhat underwhelms. Tracks “Snare Hanger” and “Tij” offer head-nodding rhythms and inventive noise sculpture, but other tracks arrive like warmed over Yes outtakes, especially “Race In,” the almost unlistenable intro track. I can think of twelve albums like this, like those made by Ganger in the late nineties and […]
Amid the mountains of recent weakness, I’m digging Star Destroyer by Alex Delivery, maybe an album and maybe an EP, although I vote for the former, since most tracks are seven to ten minutes long, and so chock full of ideas and peaks and valleys that some deliver an album’s-worth. Few albums, at least lately, […]
My prediction for Pitchfork’s rating for Blonde Redhead’s 23 was off by a point. They gave it a 7.0, I said they’d give it a 7.6 and I gave it a 6.6. Sort of on the mark, if I make the glass half-full. Today P4K gave a rave to the Twilight Sad’s Fourteen Autumns and […]
This guy just set the world record for being the object of the phrase “crazy asshole” in as many different langauges as possible over the period of nine weeks. I kinda like that. I would love to imagine, while he hallucinated, this guy also heard something like Grails’ Burning Off Impurities album, out April 24 […]
I have so many things to tell you. Today I offer two. Shearwater has partially re-recorded their (and my) best-of-2006 album Palo Santo, which might strike some as tinkering with something that ain’t broke. From these two tracks, I can’t really tell what their aims are (within the re-recording – the idea of doing it […]
Stop Loving Everything 