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Friday night hasn’t been all right for fighting since the last brown joint on the Lower East Side opened its doors to one and all so that the regulars might get swallowed whole in the French cuffs and Egyptian musks and all the wrong people could get so rich they’d...

Slowly We Rot I am terrible at show reviews. I have done a few in the past but have always felt strange doing so. I usually am struggling to find purpose. Whether to report or to reflect, my photography and journalistic skills have a few critical flaws. This maybe a...

Before there was Chromatics, there was Glass Candy lead by the sphinx of a producer Johnny Jewel. While Chromatics pushed the dreary atmosphere of a break up circa 1986, Glass Candy is a little bit more upbeat. Well, upbeat in a cocaine comedown sort of way. Check out the video...

Rare is the Monday that starts with references to techno, France and Florida but what the hell, right? Sometimes you need that synthetic motivation to get you up and at ’em and electronic against-all-vowels duo, SLDGHMR (don’t ask them about the missing “m”) provide that unnatural bass banging with their...

Holy cute, I love Lightning Dust. With two members from the venerable Black Mountain, Amber Webber and Josh Wells have been doing fine with this very restrained slightly retro washed outfit. Fantasy, the band’s third album is out on Jagjaguwar on June 25th and may come with a subdued feeling...

Did you know that Monterey lays claim to being the first capitol of California? Because I sure as shit didn’t, but that fact is the impetus for naming the city’s newly announced First City Festival. Slated to take place on August 24 & 25, at the Monterey County Fair and...