Holy hemp rope, Batman! Willie Nelson lopped off those famous locks! In a move described on his official website as the “Haircut Heard Around the World” and reportedly inspired by a desire to pass through customs without the risk of a drug dog using his … Read More →
Arcade Fire, those emotive indie megastars, are gearing up to release their new album, The Suburbs, August 3rd on Merge Records. In anticipation of that release the band has released a couple of tracks from the album–title track “The Suburbs” b/w “The Month of May” (just … Read More →
Futurebirds, out of Athens, GA, play the kind of languid, lo-fi, psych-tinged tunes I love to hear when I’m relaxin’ on a porch or a patio, just rolling lazy through a sweaty summer day with a late afternoon buzz and no greater plans than to finish my gin … Read More →
*metal-phor is a recurring feature on los grillos that explores moments when masters of heavy metal music, a traditionally very literal art form, buck tradition and use metaphor to enhance a song’s meaning. Metaphor, and by extension, metal-phor, is generally a bottom up construct, which is to … Read More →
Sex and Music #7: the Early Years
…several thousand years after the “ape” throws the bone into the air. Scene: Camera opens with the image of flickering firelight reflected off of the wall of a darkened cave. The camera pans right towards the source of the light and the frame settles on … Read More →