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PLAYLIST: Lambchop
Welcome to PLAYLIST. The idea is simple enough: make a playlist (with mix tapes and CDs becoming so unfortunately passé) centered around one artist or band with a deep catalog. There is only one
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Revisit: Steely Dan: Aja
Revisit is a series of reviews highlighting past releases that now deserve a second look. I once read somewhere that Steely Dan is one of the most sampled groups in hip-hop. It’s not hard
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Interview: Aaron Weaver from Wolves in the Throne Room
Aaron Weaver plays drums in the black metal band Wolves in the Throne Room, along with brother Nathan on vocals and guitar. But unlike their Scandinavian forebears, the Weaver brothers reject most of the
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Revisit: The Fugs: The Fugs Second Album
Revisit is a series of reviews highlighting past releases that now deserve a second look. In the mid-‘60s, Bernard Stollman started a small record label called ESP-Disk. It was a venture that he hoped
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Concert Review: Eleanor Friedberger
At a quarter past 10, before a thinly populated but receptive mid-winter Portland crowd, the Fiery Furnaces’ Eleanor Friedberger and her solo effort’s backing band (MGMT’s Matt Asti on bass, Ahmed Gallab on percussion
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Concert Review: Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra
(Photo: (c) Pirlouiiiit – Concertandco.com) The experimental post-rock group known today as Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra was first named, in an age now long past – that is, 1999 – simply A
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Interview: Blouse
Captured Tracks is one of the most exciting independent record labels fostering the imaginative, hardworking descendants of dark postpunk and shoegaze today that pull from Factory Records and second generation 4 AD. Two weeks
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Revisit: No Doubt: Tragic Kingdom
Revisit is a series of reviews highlighting past releases that now deserve a second look. If, like me, you were a child in an East Coast suburb and under age 10 in the mid-’90s,
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Concert Review: Cass McCombs/Gabriel Wallace/Frank Fairfield
(Photo: D’Aundra Wallace/The Spec) After “Love Thine Enemy,” the opening tune of Cass McCombs’ set at Chicago’s Lincoln Hall, the performer asked the sound technician, “Is there any way you could turn it all
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Concert Review: Tortoise
As I walked out of the Empty Bottle the other night, I was faced with the conundrum of trying to describe the indescribable. This is not to say that post-rock band Tortoise’s set was
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