Recent content by juliand

You have to wonder where he even turns this stuff up, or why he's looking out for this this one is excruciating christian rock... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BarlowGirl Nate's version of course sounds wicked

these vocals don't stand up at all to the mournful slowed otherworldly divas, i don't think. inasmuch as wayne (and elsewhere kanye) are rapping on the one it defeats that incredible skidding, floating feeling his tracks otherwise have

it's evanescence

Just remembered this In 1987, Squeaky Fromme escaped from prison into the woods near my house. My mom wouldn't let us leave the house because Squeaky might be out there. She was discovered in the hunting cabin across the road, eating handfuls of mayonnaise...

mr. bungle and melt banana once had thanksgiving dinner at my house, though i couldn't be bothered to turn up modest mouse and chumbawamba once came to my birthday party. my then-bandmate chased chumbawamba down the stairs with a blissfully trashed rendition of tubthumper I saw blur play in...

I thought 'box of dub' was annoying all the way through, to be honest - a bunch of corny cod-reggae. I don't mind the odd faux reggae track (Dutch Flowerz=OK) but I don't think they're dubstep's strength (putting it lightly). Compiling a bunch of them together makes for a real clanger of a record.

I saw Junior Boys headline to a sold-out crowd in San Francisco a couple weeks ago and it was tear-jerkingly great. So they do have it in them. Actually, I have a hard time imagining the Junior Boys I saw opening for anyone, or "ramping up the crowd." Their set was the kind of pleasure-plateau...

Que Belle Epoque is the one for me--that stunning moment when the vocals arrive in minute five

"Cool/Dub" is awesome, I agree...they were a great singles band. And I have to say that, while I understand why you would say so (the band agrees with you, I think) I like Chomp better--M-Train and Yo Yo! They're such an anomaly, Pylon; the singer's use of language and sense of rhythm is, to me...

A lovely reading of it, yes. I hope I agree with him. I can't help but compare the lost souls of Mark's "wounded city," "ectsasy casualties on day release from psychiatric units, disappointed lovers on night buses, parents who can't quite bring themselves to sell their rave 12 inches at a...

Seconded--it doesn't have the cohesiveness of "golden era" records, but if you can listen to "Yee" or "Yay Area" without feeling something interesting is going on then...we can't really talk to each other. We're not speaking the same language, hearing the same things. The same goes for Keak da...

A teacher of mine once said that it's these zones of culture, the ones deemed obsolete or inherently corny to tastemakers, that are the ones to watch; out of view of the critical elite, with the "running room" necessary to push things in funny, or unpredictable directions. I certainly wasn't...

I should add: it's Prins Thomas versus Prinz. Important for searching. I actually like his solo stuff under the name Major Swellings better than the Lindstrom & Prins Thomas record, which I think is hit or miss (what hits, though). It's bizarre, intricate, prog-disco. Look for their radio...

I think it's a good record with some incredible bits. The unhinged, primitivist techno of "We Share Our Mother's Health" is my favorite track--like Mantronix dreaming up "Tri Repetae" as a scene from Legend I hear something of Kate Bush in the strange conversations struck between the singers...

I find my "soul" in funny places though--I think those early Mr Fingers sides are the most soulful things ever recorded--they literally bring tears to my eyes. But it's all synth and drum machines. This effect happened recently, during Dave Chappelle's Block Party, actually--I teared up during...