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November 24, 2006
Bad Veins had only played five shows before they played our Movable Hype show last week, and we hope you caught them. With a megaphone, guitars, keys, a telephone microphone, drums and a reel to reel named Irene...the two members in this band manage to sound like a full rock orchestra. Their sound is a little bit Sparklehorse, a little bit Postal Service. A raw, almost "old-fashioned" sound with a new twist... you sort of... [continue]
| November 20, 2006
Photo by Jamie Goodridge Last week Tall Hands played our Movable Hype show, since then we've seen them one more time. Yes, twice in one week, they are that fun! Mix a little bit of an up-tempo Velvet Underground sound with some Maker's Mark, add ice and shake nicely - and you'll get something that resembles this bands live show. A sound that amidst all the live energy, comes out crystal clear through the... [continue]
November 14, 2006
One of the bands playing our Movable Hype show tonight, The Subjects, met at a New York City high school. Two of them students, two of them teachers...and their band name came from an argument about grammar. We love them already. They play a unique brand of psych pop-rock, the perfect sonic outcome of a student-teacher collaboration. Thought-rock that you can dance to. So come check 'em out tonight, they go on at 8pm. They've... [continue]
November 13, 2006
Maybe it was recording and releasing four albums in the late 80s and early 90s while playing no shows. Perhaps it was signing to 1995's hottest indie label, Matador, as a 37 year-old Dayton inhabitant who refused to move to New York or another major media center. Or the fact that, despite commonly held opinion that prohibits giving fans too much of what labels think they want, Robert Pollard has been self-releasing LPs, EPs and... [continue]
November 6, 2006
Despite Fugazi's "indefinite hiatus", Ian MacKaye has been as busy as ever; in addition to recording a new album for his current group, The Evens, he’s been producing albums for other D.C. bands, touring, doing Q&As, managing the Dischord label and, as always, personally responding to all his mail. The Evens second album, called "Get Evens", is being released today. The duo features MacKaye on vocals and baritone guitar and Amy Farina on vocals and... [continue]