October 2010I wandered in my loneliness through falling autumn leaves in St. Louis, Missouri. My headphones were playing Teen Dream. I felt the heartbreak in Victoria Legrand’s voice as she sang “Walk in the Park”. I felt my own lost love in her lyrics. Beach House – Walk in the Park – Special Presentation Summer …
40 licks, ripped out of time, for your listening pleasure. Has there ever been a rock band as cool as The Brian Jonestown Massacre? Hailed as “The Velvet Underground of the 90’s,” with a turbulent past characterized by rivalry and crime, a vitriolic hatred of the corporate music industry, and a requisite tortured genius of …
During the exciting first years of the 90s decade, the USA were experiencing the angry and furious fever of grunge bands like Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and Soundgarden. On the other side of the Atlantic ocean, an underground musical genre with a radically opposite sound had been fascinating England for some years: it was a mysterious, …
The Jesus and Mary Chain play their milestone album Darklands in full length on their upcoming tour (click here to check dates and buy tickets). Our author Shawn Ciavattone reviewed the album and talked to Jim Reid about the album, touring, and the band’s influences. The Jesus and Mary Chain play Darklands – the tour …
The follow-up to The Jesus and Mary Chain’s debut album was never going to be an easy task for our heroes from Scotland. Rarely does a band put together all the pieces of sound, attitude and songwriting skills the way they did on Psychocandy (1985). A unique mix of early rock’n’roll, surf and dense, dissonant …
The Verve were a British band that were at the outset lumped into the shoegaze circle. They had all of the trappings of shoegazers like My Bloody Valentine – a strong reliance on guitar effects and other electronic devices that could alter the sound of the traditional rock instruments. The Verve, however, had something which …
