Internal/external Featuring… K By: Eric G. Gathering up all of your indie rock friends to play on your album isn’t really a new idea or even a very good one. U.N.K.L.E. and The Sixths have both done it to varying degrees of success, but Olympia, Washington’s Paul Schuster has taken this sly marketing ploy and […]

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Sunday's Best Sons Of The Second String 7inch Market Participant By: Eric G. Sunday's Best is a quartet from Los Angeles, playing a tight brand of power pop with one foot in punk and the other in a weird Built To Spill sort of melodic rock. The band flaunts its harmonies shamelessly over muted guitars […]

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Do Make Say Think Goodbye Enemy Airship The Landlord Is Dead Constellation By: Eric G. Do Make Say Think explores the accidents of sound and the limits of formal composition for a ragged and raw display of rock that feels primal and pure even in the face of its veerings into jazz. The jazzy breakdowns […]

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The Beach Directed By Danny Boyle 20th Century Fox By: Eric G. The problem with The Beach is that it shouldn’t have been made into a movie at all. On paper it probably looked like a great idea: Leonardo DiCaprio frolicking on a tropical island with an hot young French girl, but Alex Garland’s fast-paced […]

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The Cure Bloodflowers Elektra / Fiction By: Eric G. Realizing the folly of steering The Cure into the unlikely land of wacky Top 40 hitmakers over the past ten years, Robert Smith has promised a return to form on the band’s eleventh studio release, characteristically titled Bloodflowers. Smith is determined to make The Cure relevant […]

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Hot Snakes Automatic Midnight Swami By: Eric G. If you’ve been missing Drive Like Jehu like I have, then you will be ecstatic to find out that Hot Snakes reunites John Reis (also from Rocket From The Crypt) and Rick Fork, the respective guitarist and vocalist for that seminal early nineties band. Filling out the […]

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One Star Triangulum March By: Eric G. During the first track of Triangulum, “The Jelly Is Set!”, I thought I was listening to an outtake off Cibo Matto’s debut full-length, but, thankfully, One Star has so much more to offer than miming fellow Japanese pop stars with cute but awkward English skills. One Star specializes […]

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