“I Never Knew You,” the first single from Cage’s new album, Depart From Me, is an ode to stalking; the music video, directed by Shia LaBeouf, features a young man perpetrating a B&E at the home of a woman he’s been following while he sings, “It’s like the sky opened up/and God handed you directly [...]
For Real Estate's Martin Courtney, returning to his native New Jersey last summer after graduating from college may have been a regressive move, but it also turned out to be a productive one.
"I almost exclusively hang out with people from high school these days," the singer and guitarist says, echoing that common post-collegiate experience of [...]
It's likely no accident that, at least on cursory listens, Psychic Chasms (Lefse Records) sounds out-of-time and incidental, like the gauzy score to a local-access television spot long relegated to the backwaters of YouTube. Certainly, there's a degraded and lo-fi quality to this debut by Neon Indian, the project of 21-year-old Alan Palomo, who is based in Austin. That [...]
Experimental hip-hoppers Anti-Pop Consortium were at their incomprehensible best at Rock & Roll Hotel this Saturday, performing a set heavy on tunes from their recent reunion album, Fluorescent Black. It was a welcome return to form for a group that has seen its individual members involved in a huge number of side projects after APC's [...]
There are two questions Sacramento, Calif.'s Ganglians say they're asked all the time: Is the band named after ganglion cysts? (Those are gross and kind of cool, frontman Ryan Grubbs said Tuesday, but no.) Also, what's it like to trip on ayahuasca?
Grubbs said he loves talking about psychoactive drugs almost as much as taking them. But he and his [...]
With the help of vocalist Mark Lanegan, Britain’s Soulsavers put together an album with Gibby Haynes of the Butthole Surfers, Mike Patton of Faith No More, and Martyn LeNoble of Porno for Pyros. But instead of a crappy update of ’90s alt-rock, Broken, released last month, features Haynes and company making dark, symphonic pop.... And [...]
Whether or not you regard the Rock & Roll Hotel as the, erm, jewel in the Atlas District's crown, there's surely no better place to see live, local music this weekend. That's because the H Street NE venue enters its preschool years this weekend, celebrating its third birthday with six events and more than 20 [...]
I spent much of the last two years writing movie reviews, and I had just one ethical guideline for my morning press screenings: Don't take the food. So how should I have reacted when Tobacco, the frontman the costumed, dancing hype man of the acid-caked post-rockers Black Moth Super Rainbow shoved a stick of warm [...]
I. The Perils Of *dom
Somewhere between stellastarr*'s self-titled semibreakthrough and Civilized, its latest, self-released effort, the New York band went from benign and enjoyable indie bubblegum to disposable Guitar Hero rock. That much was clear, anyway, at the group's packed show at Rock & Roll Hotel Friday with Wild Light and The Postmarks. Here is [...]
I'm going to hazard a guess that during yesterday's music-packed evening in D.C., the only show that could rival Peter Brötzmann's trio in intensity was The Dillinger Escape Plan at Rock & Roll Hotel. If you've seen DEP before or you read my writeup of their Baltimore show this past Feburary, you know the [...]
