“The sing-a-long songs will be our scriptures,” Craig Finn sings on the title track of The Hold Steady‘s new album Stay Positive. Having grown up on hardcore, that’s a sentiment I can appreciate — though growing up in central Jersey in the mid-90s, most of those sing-a-longs were political in nature. (You could probably make … Continue reading
Category Archives: Review
August 3, 2008, Author: , Leave a comment
Tags:: abc no rio, max and the marginalized, punk rock, show review
live: max and the marginalized; abc no rio, 08.02.08
Categories: Live, Music, ReviewTags:: abc no rio, max and the marginalized, punk rock, show review
July 25, 2008, Author: , Leave a comment
Tags:: bound stems, flameshovel, indie rock, live music, mercury lounge, show review
live: bound stems, mercury lounge, 07.24.08
Categories: Live, Music, ReviewTags:: bound stems, flameshovel, indie rock, live music, mercury lounge, show review
Venture to Bound Stems‘ Wikipedia entry, and you’ll find this relatively innocuous opening sentence: “Bound Stems is an indie rock band with math rock influences from Chicago, Illinois“. And that’s great and all, but I prefer to think of them as the band that caused the staff of BD Riley’s think that I was a … Continue reading
July 23, 2008, Author: , Leave a comment
Live: Katie Eastburn, Ponytail, Joan of Arc, Knitting Factory, 7.22.08
Categories: Live, Music, Review1. The last time I saw Joan of Arc may very well have been at a Voices in the Wilderness benefit at Tramps during the summer of 1999. If memory serves, they decided to play their set at as low a volume as was possible, which did a fine job of alienating the audience, some … Continue reading