Portland’s Viva Voce have a new LP, Rose City out on May 26th on Barsuk and as one might expect, they’re on tour and heading to SXSW. Devotion from the forthcoming LP. March: 12 San Francisco, CA Rickshaw Stop 13 Visalia , CA Cellar Door 15 Tucson, AZ Plush 16 Phoenix, AZ Rhythm Room 18 […]

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Barcelona, home of Gaudi, Parc Guell, El Raval, Barri Gòtic, and The Primavera Sound Festival featuring Aphex Twin, Marnie Stern, My Bloody Valentine, Shellac, The Jesus Lizard, Th’ Faith Healers and dozens more names that will make you scratch your head. The Bats?! Really? Saint Etienne will perform Foxbase Alpha. WTF?! Screw Glastonbury. I’m headed […]

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Hot Girl + Smiths + Elevator?! It’s like Boner Party meets Drawer B. With ZOOEY. Must see. (in addition to Mysteries of Pittsburgh)

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Was looking for this in my recently cleaned up iTunes library and couldn’t find it, so I randomly checked YouTube. Success.

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It’s for charity (Comic Relief) so I can’t complain too much about the raping of a classic Depeche Mode track. The video is also rather easy on the eyes, but I still had to cringe. *shudder*

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Johnithin Christ of early 1980’s San Francisco hardcore band Code of Honor died on March 5, 2009 of complications from pneumonia. He had beaten cancer, but his immune system had been wrecked by the chemotherapy. So the bout with pneumonia easily shut him down. Hard to believe anyone in Code of Honor could be in […]

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The Guardian has been on a roll this week. Today Steven Wells has a piece on the correlation of your music taste and your intelligence. The results, uhh, slightly irked Mr. Wells, but the fountain of gold that spewed forth had me tearing up with laughter. To distill the results: turns out if you fancy […]

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