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Wilco – Star Wars
I heard the 9th studio album by Wilco was a surprise release. Then I heard the band debuted the record live at the Pitchfork Music Festival to a frothing hometown crowd. Then I heard the record was called Star Wars but had nothing to do with Disney property. Needless to...

Black Wing – …Is Doomed (in pictures)
Author’s Note: I spent the weekend with my favorite people. We ate and drank and laughed and smoked and bickered and bowled and drove and walked through the woods where I saw turkey and deer and bones and bloodied hawk feathers and frogs (I even caught one but I let...

White Reaper – White Reaper Does It Again
The sad truth about White Reaper Does It Again is that you’re going to forget it. Oh, you’ll love it at first if you have any sort of heart for pop or punk or garage or fuzzy days lost in debt to last night’s questionable cul de sac and that...

Titus Andronicus – The Most Lamentable Tragedy
One night, I cut myself. The next day, I was institutionalized. Twenty years later, I’m still trying to thread together the in between. I remember meeting with my music teacher because Rob snitched to him after he saw the blood on my hand and I implored him to do otherwise...

FYF 2015 – A Retrospective
The experience of covering FYF as a Los Angeles based music publication is akin to preparing a speech for your lifelong friend’s wedding. Each year of FYF exists in a vacuum but the journey of how it got to this point, the triumphs and the scars, are impossible to extricate...

Slipknot / Lamb of God @ The Concord Pavilion – 8.26.15
Ed. Note: Okay so, yeah. I was about to play up some sort of bullshit objectivity here because that’s…um…fun? I don’t know. What I do know is that for all my twists and tails and tasteless avant anti major underground uber alles proclivities I have never, ever, EVER been able...