FRANKENSTEIN GIRLS WILL SEEM STRANGELY SEXY MINDLESS SELF INDULGENCE Little Jimmy Urine gives you another reason to love your mom, and not just because she cooks for you. Do you remember the hyperactive kids in grade school? The ones that the teacher would always scold, try to keep still and OH GOD, DO NOT PUT THAT CATERPILLAR UP YOUR NOSE!? Well, they’ve gotten … [Read more...] about Meet the Intern…
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WHITE STRIPES
Icky Thump opens with a wandering organ scale and a steady bass beat. It’s a transmission, and the White Stripes are waiting for an answer. Forty seconds into the title track, they receive their signal: an unapologetic, unrelenting electric guitar rift that aims for center mass. A guitar hook like the one in “Icky Thump” is hard to put into words. It is visceral and arresting, … [Read more...] about WHITE STRIPES
WHITE STRIPES
Icky Thump opens with a wandering organ scale and a steady bass beat. It’s a transmission, and the White Stripes are waiting for an answer. Forty seconds into the title track, they receive their signal: an unapologetic, unrelenting electric guitar rift that aims for center mass. A guitar hook like the one in “Icky Thump” is hard to put into words. It is visceral and arresting, … [Read more...] about WHITE STRIPES
WILCO
Wilco’s newest studio album, Sky Blue Sky, sounds a lot like the final leg of a 12-step rehab program: it’s about acceptance. Wilco, unlike Radiohead, never seemed to revel in confounding their audience with conceptual and sonic experimentation, but the band was constantly evolving and none of their five studio albums sound alike. Sky Blue Sky is no exception. There is none … [Read more...] about WILCO
NINE INCH NAILS
“YEAR ZERO” It was Tuesday morning of April 17 and I was pacing around outside of Borders in the Maui Marketplace waiting for an apparently late manager to let me inside. It was about three minutes past nine, and I was getting impatient. Borders was the only place on the island that I knew for sure was getting the new Nine Inch Nails album, Year Zero, on the release … [Read more...] about NINE INCH NAILS