Brooklyn Vegan (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
photos by Kyle Dean Reinford "Rocky Erickson, founder of The 13th Floor Elevators, recently grew a beard (he's grown one before, but this is a new development). I saw him a few years ago sans barb, and at ACL he...
prefixmag.com (Free subscription) | 09/15/2008
Even the names of Heavy Hands' members indicate the band's sonic inclinations; with monikers like Ambassador Hazy and Mystical Revelation, you're clued in from the get-go that you're not exactly ...
Liverpool Echo.co.uk (Free subscription) | 09/06/2008
HE may have been bestowed with a title of the religious order, but Jon McClure would make an unusual man of the cloth.
Liverpool Echo.co.uk (Free subscription) | 09/06/2008
HE may have been bestowed with a title of the religious order, but Jon McClure would make an unusual man of the cloth.
Aural States (Free subscription) | 08/31/2008
As we delve further into the HD age, where the unplucked hairs on a famed celebrity’s face are readily visible on TV screens and radio and TV stations will be going all HD in the next year or so, there seems to be a sort of counter-revolution going on. Flying in the face of all this [...]
motel de moka (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
. “ Fleeting, like smoke. (No.1) ” 01. 13th Floor Elevators - Levitation Easter Everywhere (Snapper UK, 1967) 02. Tomorrow - Auntie Mary’s Dress Shop Tomorrow (1968) 03. John Fahey - Sligo River Blues The Legend of Blind Joe Death (Takoma, 1996) 04. Seeds - Nobody Spoil My Fun The Seeds (Gnp Crescendo, 1966) 05. New York Dolls - Jet Boy 1st Demos - Blue [...]
Electric Roulette (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
There's a certain satisfaction that you can only get from three drunken oafs hammerin' out crude chords at ear-splittin' volume. Wailin' and vein-bustin', The Branded demand you do "The Thang all day, all night!", and man, I don't even know...
cowsarejustfood (Free subscription) | 08/16/2008
not much to say really about an oversubscribed underwhelming bill other than primordial undermind were pretty ace. a shortish set of extended guitar jams as much drone as garage rock as psycheblowoutslowdown. like some rockist 13th floor elevators. like the grateful dead via bardo pond via television via pink floyd via sir richard bishop. fuck, am [...]
Film School Rejects (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
At the Tropic Thunder press junket (you better believe I'm milking it!), Jack Black took a moment to talk about a few things that won't be inspiring controversy. That is unless people find religious comedies controversial. Wait a minute... Filming has wrapped on the Harold Ramis directed Year One ...
Rock Sellout (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
Brooklyn’s Crystal Stilts have prepped their debut full-length and will be unleashing it on the general public on October 28th. The album is titled Alight of Night and will be released via Slumberland Records. What’s it going to sound like, you ask? Well, here’s what the handy dandy little press release I received today had [...]
Losanjealous (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
The King Khan show last Thursday night at the Echo was the most packed and sweaty I’ve seen there in a long time. The last time was probably when the MC5 reunited not so long ago on this very same Echo stage, with a gospel soul review that included Mark Arm, Evan Dando, Don Was, [...]
Newmark's Door (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
The Boston Phoenix declares the "best all-time band, best all-time solo artist, and best new band by state". Naturally, I can carp. Bruce Springsteen is not a "solo artist". Picking, for Texas, "13th Floor Elevators"--who?--over, for example, ZZ Top is...
Hidden Track (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
At long last there’s a way to ensure your offspring are hip to the latest in indie-rock at a young age. For his final project at England’s Huddersfield University, Andy J. Miller created Colour It (Red) a coloring and activity book inspired by songs from his favorite indie-bands such as Beirut and TV on [...]
Mobtown Shank (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
ROBERT POLLARD [mp3] The Blondes Pollard also has a book of his artwork coming out soon from Fantagraphics - TOWN OF MIRRORS. Found on An Aquarium Drunkard. TED LEO & THE PHARMACISTS [mp3] The World Is In The Terlet Found...
Cable &Tweed (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
In the record stores and coffee shops where I hang out, there is a growing buzz about the upcoming Roky Erickson show at Athens Popfest . As a result, old fans are revisiting Erikson's catalog and new converts are plucking his albums from record store bins. I am decidedly in the latter camp, and only recently picked up the 1967 release Easter Everywhere by Erickson's seminal psychedelic band 13th Floor...
