Reviewed In Words | You Am I @ The Tivoli, 26/27.06.13
Ah, Tim. How many performers, in the straight-up ‘rock band’ world or indeed elsewhere, self-censor as little as Tim Rogers?
Peace – In Love (Columbia)
I say fuck youth when it’s this old, fuck fans if they’re this fucking stupid, and fuck happiness if it means the smug assurance that the middling will triumph whilst the revolutionary and revelatory will be impoverished & obliterated
The Sweet Smell Of Success (intro)
DIY touring is also this: sometimes you truly open a door to new thought for someone, and that’s the most beautiful thing I could ever do with my life, and so I guess I’m stuck with it.
Chain & The Gang – In Cool Blood (K Records)
What’s cool? Chain & The Gang’s new album, In Cool Blood, might help us to answer this question.
“Cute for a while… but then it gets boring”
In summation, he mused, I was comparable to the vacant, mannequin-esque women in Robert Palmer’s video for ‘Addicted To Love’.
Demos of the week | Moon & Negation
Here’s to there being a feminist punk band in every town, someday.
Song of the day – 572: Hot Fruit
The video is so striking, it’s easy to overlook how rad the music is. And the music certainly is rad.
Jason Molina R.I.P.
This is the cold moonlight, the guitar picking out gentle beauty amid the red sky’s forked lightning.
Iceage | Who makes the Nazis?
I loved going to Jesus Lizard shows as much as any other teenaged alt-punk guy in the 90s, but David Yow always had such a glorious element of beautiful fagginess to what he did.
