Two weeks ago while in Vancouver, I found myself in the rain in search of Vancouver’s best record store, Zulu Records. I had this image in my head of what the store was like from countless phone calls, making ‘tracking’ calls to retails stores at my day job in ’06. I hated that part of […]
I think this year I’ll keep a list of favorite releases, that way when I do my year end best albums of ’08, I won’t be stuck. I think this band is going to make my top ten for sure. The full length from Maps called We Can Create came out last month in the […]
Ever wonder what Jason Schwartzman was up to these days? Take a listen to Coconut Records. I haven’t heard the whole disc, but I gotta admit I’m liking his track West Coast. Soon enough though it will be cast as an opening theme to a popular teen show (Schwartzman‘s other hit was California when he […]
One of the most interesting (and perhaps exaggerated) stories I’ve ever heard in the music world, describes how Henry Rollins joined the seminal punk band Black Flag. Rollins attended a show with his friend Ian MacKaye (founder of Minor Threat and Fugazi) and decided he wanted to sing on stage. So he got up and […]
A while back, I (along with the sometimes heard from Burtch) posted a sort of wrap-up for the Virgin Festival last summer. I wrote a bit about Kid Koala, who I was really impressed with (even though his set was cut short). I wasn’t able to find his version of Moon River on the net, […]