Aussie post-rock outfit Decoder Ring are launching their first effort since 2006’s Sommersault, on September 1st. Chris posted the video for the album’s opening track, Beat The Twilight, last month, and gave me the opportunity to subsequently review the full album. Listening to They Blind The Stars, and The Wild Team is a venture not […]
To continue with previous post… Take a listen to Cassettes Won’t Listen. CWL is the stage name for Jason Drake, one of New York City’s emerging one-man electro-rock artists. He’s done some really nice remixes of two Midlake tracks (‘Young Bride‘ and ‘Roscoe‘). Here’s a pretty cool version of Pavement’s ‘Cut your Hair.’ I thought […]
Stop number one. The Australian Party at Brush square. Caught the last song from Decoder Ring. Checked my watch to make sure it was past 12pm, had a beer. And so on. Stop number two. The Paste party. Great magazine, always a good party every year at SXSW. They had this cheese sauce…. wow. It […]
I have a good reason for not posting. I spent the last 6 days in Austin, TX (also known as Awesome, TX) seeing concerts, eating nachos and drinking bad beer. Top award goes to a beer called Fat Tire. It scored high for having a cool name, but was knocked down to a low score […]