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The Daredevil Christopher Wright - Live at the Nucleus
Video: One shot! Magic!
The performance of a song this simple gets twisted into something fairly complicated if it’s still stuck in your head a week afterwards. You know it’s got to be something more when your head just won’t let a melody like this escape. The come on babys and […]
These Modern Socks - Picking a Lock at the Speed of Light
Pictured: Credit to HowWasTheShow.com for this picture that I stole. Credit to the lighting crew at the Varsity Theater for being absolutely rediculous.
The story of Picking a Lock at the Speed of Light goes something like this, I gather:
a) boy likes girl,
b) boy also likes outer space, a lot,
c) boy takes girl to outer space […]
Wye Oak - If Children
Pictured: Wye Oak. The kind of kids who acted like dinosaurs for the whole third grade.
“You know your secret’s safe with me,” promises Wye Oak’s Jenn and Andy. “If you feel young.” Their new album, If Children, feels like a Sunday morning of frolicking between bed sheets and letting just little bits of light in […]
Cedarwell - Weirdest Places
Video: Cedarwell - Weirdest Places
Cedarwell’s Erik Neave well embodies his northern heritage. Sheboygan, Wisconsin, should be proud of such a wonderfully full beard, such tough flannel shirts and darkly twisted, acoustic-pop songs that seem to ride nature’s very rhythm. Crisp clarity and addicting genuineness hibernate Neave’s voice somewhere in the […]
The Whiskers - The Distorted Historian
Pictured: Okay, yes, I do hate that I have to post this stupid picture. It’s the only one I could find on the entire internet!
Somehow this band is confident in epic proportions, unquestioned and walking stomping through uncharted lands that had only ever been feared from afar, and they’re completely nervous and unsure of it […]
The Pica Beats - All Mysteries Solve Themselves
Pictured: Off to a good start(top left).
“Our child will never be right with the down crowd.” This is a conversation between parents about their son. He’s lanky and uncoordinated, severely nearsighted and struggling to fit in. He is unfamiliar and awkward in the presence of girls his own age and isn’t the type likely to […]
Sybris - Into the Trees
Pictured: “Oh, did you read what Peervalidated wrote today? Those guys are so funny and awesome!”
For the next week, in anticipation of it’s release in May, the entirety of Syrbis’ new album Into the Trees is streaming on the Absolutely Kosher site. For this reason I’ve been glued to my laptop more often than usual, […]
Fleet Foxes - EP & Sun Giant EP
Pictured: Pictures of Fleet Foxes are difficult to come by, with the whole soul stealing thing and all.
At this point I’m about ready to fill my closet with tie-dyed cotton t-shirts and too-short jean shorts, stuff my dresser full of multi-colored bandannas and collect necklaces made of hemp and sea shells. Does anyone know how […]
The Panderers - Hotshot’s Boy
Pictured: This just reeks of trouble.
You gotta move, come on, step up, jump around, step in, and get up, stay up, get down, come on, jump in, move around, come on, step up, get up, way up, get down, alright.
The Panderers - Come On
The Panderers are currently touring for a new EP called Hotshot’s Boy, […]
The Wars of 1812 - Live at the Nucleus
Potential energy: energy stored within a physical system; can be released or converted into other forms of energy; has the potential to change the states of objects in the system when the energy is released.
A rock band’s slowest song might seem out of place in some cases, like filler before […]
BARR - Summary
Pictured: Brendan Fowler (BARR) isn’t a chair-with-an-arm-rest kinda guy. He’s a lot more complicated than that.
I’m sort of finding it funny that sometimes when I hear a new song I really, really like, my first thought is, “oh! I have to post this on the site right now!” It’s not an under appreciation for the […]
The StairCars / Goodbye Matt and Kara
Our friends Matt and Kara are moving to China.
Orillia Opry - Lighthouse for Stragglers’ Eyes
Pictured: No minks were harmed in the process of writing this review. The damage had already been done.
This is taking the Lazy River ride in a water park filled with turbulence and fear. The slumping easiness of a free floating raft and your closest friends. Lighthouse for Stragglers’ Eyes would let us off if we […]
Spaghetti Western String Co.
At the height of performance an audience is stripped from its surroundings and given an original experience that cannot be dup/replicated, some display of culture to grasp onto for only as long as a set will carry before being released back into the comfort of the everyday. This is our experience with Spaghetti Western String […]
Thao Nguyen - We Brave Bee Stings and All
Pictured: Thao Nguyen going about tooth brushing all wrong.
Sometimes you get behind the meanings of songs without knowing what they are. It’s just a feeling that the voice sounds important, but for some reason you can’t quite pick up on the words. It’s sort of like the ‘funny numbers,’ game that politicians play when they […]