So Beck Hansen is walking through one of the lesser-known, divier neighborhoods of LA looking for inspiration. As he passes an alleyway he does a double take and backs up to check out a small, hairless mutt fucking a discarded mechanical monkey with clapping cymbals. … Read More →
I missed Lissie’s debut ep Why You Runnin’ when it came out on Fat Possum back in November ’09, but was turned on to it not long ago by the folks at Aquarium Drunkard. Lissie’s bio, posted on her Fat Possum page, describes her as a California farmhouse-livin’, … Read More →
The Soft Pack, formerly The Muslims, rock it straight ahead garage-punk style on their self-titled debut, out on Kemado Records. Producer Eli Janney, of 90′s alt-rockers Girls Against Boys, keeps things lean, mean, and clean on an album filled with up-tempo toe-tappers that brings to … Read More →
Dark Night of the Soul, Indeed
SCENE: Wayne Coyne, esteemed singer of the Flaming Lips, reclines on a chaise lounge in the walnut paneled office of his bald headed, round, thick-rimmed glasses-wearing, Austrian psychoanalyst. Analyst: (looking over his glasses and across his desk at Mr. Coyne) So what seems to be bothering … Read More →