Recidivist, ep. 1: Autechre, Thomas Brinkmann

Insomnia-filled nights get me to thinkin’ about all sorts of random things. Tonight’s few hours of attempted-but-failed sleep got me on a nostalgic kick, thinking back to days of high school when my best buddy Jesse LeBus and I published a short-lived scandal sheet called The Recidivist (named for a Bastro song, natch). It only [...]

Wzt Hearts, Heat Chief (Hoss/Hit Dat) LP/CD

This review appears in Swingset #8 which is laying around at your local music retailer right now, probably.
Wzt Hearts (pronounced “wet hearts”) are an electro-acoustic four piece from Baltimore who traffic in textures and sounds somewhere between the best parts of the Mego laptop scene of the late 1990s and today’s post-post-hardcore noise purveyors such [...]

Random Cellphone Camera Photos, May-June 2007

Pulled Pork Sandwich from Black Jack BBQ (Charleston, SC) at the Big Apple BBQ Fest, 6/10/07

Watersports at Matchless, 6/2/07

Tim Wakefield warms up in the bullpen at Yankee Stadium, 5/21/07

Daniel A.I.U. Belteshazzar-Higgs at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, 5/4/07

Pissed Jeans Interview from Swingset #8

(Photos swiped from White Denim)
Pissed Jeans are quite possibly the best band in America right now. There, we said it. Their debut album, Shallow, has been blasting out of our respective home and office stereos on continuous loop since it was released last year on CD, and having finally been able to catch these four [...]