Savak — Bird Tracks in the Snow / Andrew Anderson — It’s Not for Me / Surf Curse — Labyrinth / Susan — Haha / Midnight Oil — Best of Both Worlds (live) / Las Kellies — Funny Money / Warmduscher — Midnight Dipper / Henrik Berggren — Thirst for Life / The Prids — Valley Saints (Part Time Punks Session) / Scott & Charlene’s Wedding — Outside World / Peaer — Circle (edit) / Letters to Cleo — Father Christmas / Lucy Dacus — Last Chr... Read more
Ducks Unlimited — Gleaming Spires / The Gonks — I’m a Lonely Night Driver / Rocketship — City Fair / Van Halen — D.O.A. / Proto Idiot — Find Out for Ourselves / Origami Angel — The Title Track / N0V3L — Violent & Paranoid / Woolen Men — Ecstasy of an Ant / Katie Malco — Creatures / The Avengers — The American in Me / Supergrass — Next to You / Mike Krol — Won’t Be Alone Tonight / Crayon Fields — All the Pleasures of the World /... Read more
Woolen Men — Space Invader / Corridor — Pow / Thigh Master — Exodus / Elephant Stone — Land of Dead / Warmduscher — Grape Face / Garden Centre — Naked Ape / Rank/Xerox — Servants in Heaven / Rank/Xerox — Cradle of Life / Eddy Current Suppression Ring — Our Quiet Whisper / EXEK — Punishment (live) / Peel Dream Magazine — Novelty / Girl Ray — Go to the Top / TR/ST — The Stain / From Indian Lakes — It Pulls You Up / Kevin Morby — Blue... Read more
Have A Nice Life — Trespassers W / The Shivas — Can’t Relax / The Prids — Lie Here (Part Time Punks Session) / Ratboys — Alien With a Sleep Mask On / Guerilla Toss — Future Doesn’t Know / Warmduscher — Fill It, Don’t Spill It (edit) / Baxter Dury — Slumlord (edit) / Woolen Men — Mexico City Blues / Elephant Stone — Darker Time, Darker Space / Greet Death — Crush / The Natvral — You Looked Like a Portrait / Thigh Master — Mould Line... Read more
Warmduscher — Rules of the Game (feat. Iggy Pop) / Tainted Lunch (edit) / Corridor — Junior / From Indian Lakes — Dissonance (feat. Soren Bryce) / Comet Gain — Mid 8Ts (edit) / Nervus — Engulf You / Big Bite — Blue Nine / The Deer — Move to Girls / Garden Centre — Wide Sea / TR/ST — Destroyer / little star — seventh ave. diner / The Shivas — Start a Fire / Penelope Isles — Cut Your Hair / Campfires — Meanwhile / Jeffrey Lewis — LPs... Read more
P.E. — Top Ticket (edit) / Y La Bamba — Los Gritos / Young Guv — Caught Lookin’ / Corridor — Domino / Disheveled Cuss — Wanna Be My Friend / Ganser — You Must Be New Here / Secret Shame — Gift / Dead Vibrations — Underwater / Jet Black Factory — Real Down Ticket / WIVES — Sold Out Seatz / Drakulas — Fashion Forward / Cate Le Bon & Bradford Cox — What Is She Wearing
Concrete Blonde — Bloodletting (The Vampire Song) / Kills Birds — Tear Up / Mikal Cronin — Show Me / Mark Lanegan Band — Night Flight to Kabul / Bent Knee — Hold Me In / Spiral Heads — A Number From Outer Space / Juana Molina — Paraguaya Punk / Dry Cleaning — Sit Down Meal / Black Mekon — 300 Ghosts / Giants Chair — Dirty Winter / Skull Practitioners — The Beacon / Pray For Sound — Spiral
next week this show will be in costume as another show entirely. The Orielles — Come Down on Jupiter / The Hecks — Heat Wave / Greet Death — Do You Feel Nothing? (edit) / Kelley Stoltz — Fire on Fire / Battles — Sugar Foot (feat. Jon Anderson) / B Boys — Bad Decisions / Wire — Cactused / The Yummy Fur — […]
in his ongoing attempt to fill the calendar with more live shows than school pickups. Kills Birds — Only Yellow / The Hecks — Chopper / WIVES — The 20 Teens / X — Delta 88 Nightmare / Beach Slang — Bam Rang Rang / The Replacements — Color Me Impressed (live at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, WI, 6/2/1989) / Automatic — Champagne / Operator Music Band — Mondo / […]
we the best music. (no, seriously.) DIIV — Like Before You Were Born / Russian Baths — Responder / Dry Cleaning — Viking Hair / Public Practice — Disposable / Gang of Four — Not Great Men / The Pop Group — Kiss the Book / BAMBARA — Serafina / Girl Band — Going Norway / EXEK — Prawn Watching (live) / Mikal Cronin — I’ve Got Reason / The Drones — She Had an Abortion That […]
come with me if you wanna live. Automatic — Too Much Money / Black Mekon — Ghetto Bug / Squid — The Cleaner / Lightning Bug — Vision Scraps / Vivian Girls — I’m Far Away / Miss June — Enemies / Brightness — Dallas / Locate S,1 — Owe It 2 the Girls / The Hussy — Sorry / Jonathan Fire*Eater — The Search for Cherry Red / Ducks Unlimited — Get Bleak / Sinead O’Brien — Taking […]
A Giant Dog covered Arcade Fire and stuck the landing. they said it couldn’t be done (but really, they always say that, and we’ve been listening to them far too long anyway.) also more stuff. Vivian Girls — Most of All / Black Mekon — Immunity / UV-TV — Gold / A Giant Dog — Black Mirror / Drahla — Godstar / Joyero — Steepest Stairs […]
it took less time for Bombay Bicycle Club to go away, make us miss them, assemble some lost demos, make a new album and mount a tour, than it took me to move into the new place. Surf Curse — Maps to the Stars / Chilton — Dinobirds / Re-Volts — Leeches / (Sandy) Alex G — Cow / Pixies — Bird of Prey / […]
it’s anniversary-palooza out there among our classic bands. too bad most of the marriages fell apart. The Replacements — Alex Chilton (live at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, WI, 6-2-1989) / Supergrass — Caught By the Fuzz (live at Bath Moles) / EXEK — Unetiquetted / Band Apart — Clean Sound / Tropical F*** Storm — The Happiest Guy Around (edit) […]
still behind… catching up. breaking down. looking around. Ezra Furman — Evening Prayer aka Justice / Lunch Lady — Angel / The Futureheads — Mortals / Translator — Sleeping Snakes / A Beacon School — Algernon / Bodywash — Sunspots / Riverside — Waterfall / Tunnelvision — Watching the Hydroplanes (Demo) / The Flaming Lips — My Own Planet / Modern Nature — Footsteps / […]
team TFS. all day, all night. pls join me. Modern Nature — Nature / Honey Radar — Instant Furniture / Tropical F*** Storm — The Planet of Straw Men (edit) / Tournament — Underdog / Redd Kross — Fighting / The Paranoyds — Girlfriend Degree / Gong Gong Gong — Some Kind of Demon / Dry Cleaning — Conversation / Corridor — Topographe / […]
TFS is the word. (at least that’s what the FCC stipulates.) spread it. Tropical F*** Storm — Braindrops (edit) / Bodega — Shiny New Model / Maria Usbeck — Secret in Japan / Dry Cleaning — New Job / Sleep Eaters — Valley of Dogs / Honey Radar — Tick Tock / Tijuana Panthers — Little Pamplemousse / Oh Sees — Snickersnee / FITTED — […]
the windscreen stops all the sibilance and sheer force of passion coming across. Hammered Hulls — Written Words / Davila 666 — Huevos Viejos / Honey Radar — Kite Balloons / Somos — Ammunition / The Black Watch — Get Me Out of Echo Park / Sleep Eaters — Don’t Sell Your Soul / Dry Cleaning — Magic of Meghan / B […]
RIP David Berman. I’d imagine there are enough imperfections in the proceedings to make him fake a smile. Deadbeat Beat — Baphomet / Sloan — Money City Maniacs / Charles — Moving In / The Flaming Lips — Flaming Lips Theme Song / Dumb — Columbo / Empty Country — Ultrasound / Bad Heaven Ltd. — Almost / B Boys — Another Anthem / Gauche — Flash / Terry — Drawn for Days / Goon — Cammie […]
Kevin sits down with the longest standing members of James, Jim and Tim, before they take the Observatory North Park stage.
Chat About Open Water