Vivian Girls’ Cassie Ramone has maxed out her credit, and the exact moment it happened occurs one minute and ten seconds into “Run Me Over,” the opening song on the self-titled debut (Shrimper Records) of her side-project, The Babies. Her Babies buddy, Kevin Morby, taking a break from his main gig as the bassist [...]
The title of Fern Knight’s 2006 release, Music for Witches and Alchemists, served simultaneously as a wonderfully apt description and an unambiguous product warning. If you prefer the mundane to the magical, move on: These are not the druids you’re looking for.
Since then, the group has relocated to Arlington from Philadelphia, and while Fern [...]
Drag City's longtime fidelity to Louisville's underground has again paid off. The label just released an amazing anthology of the Endtables, the frenetic post-punk band that burst onto Louisville stages in 1978 and dissolved in 1980. We reviewed the disc last week, and I recently interviewed guitarist Alex Durig to see what he thinks about [...]
With their self-deprecating petticoat name and the arresting, harmonized choruses of their debut I Will Be, the Dum Dum Girls have made a statement that’s both obvious and well-earned: This is girl-group music. It’s an ambition that tips its hat at a long and great continuum, ranging from the Shangri-Las through the Go-Go’s to the [...]
Slumgum is a jazz quartet from L.A. with a name that only a beekeeper could love. The young group’s sophisticated, elegant blend of modern classical music and avant-garde jazz belies its icky moniker. The members formed Slumgum when they met as students at the Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts. However, expect the band [...]
Old Man, Take a look at my list, mine’s a lot like yours is.
My list does indeed employ genre quotas and, yes, heavy metal does have an actionable case against me this year.
Statistical Breakdown
•6 downloaded albums, 4 physical versions
•7 Americans, 3 Internationals
•1 artist my Mom had heard of, although, to be fair, I didn’t ask [...]
Just because Darkest Hour didn't play a big, local CD release show doesn't mean that the Dark ones aren't still proud residents of the District. (I wrote about the band's new album, Deliver Us, in the latest issue of City Paper.) There is an entertaining article by CP contributor Nick Green in the [...]
