Excellent news from Born Yesterday Records: Chicago-based post-punk band Stuck releases their first LP Change Is Bad on April 3rd. Our readers know that hate marketing is neither our forte, nor our ambition. We’re here to write about moving art. There’s one problem, though. We don’t know the first thing about post-punk....
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bleach day – in limbo
Album ‘as if always’ out now (Birdwatcher Records).
‘in limbo’ was until today one of our favorites from Radiohead, but tables have turned.
Vinny Marksohn and Louie Kiley produced songs navigating between obvious (but pleasurable) references and original, mastered directions. The whole album is a must hear.
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ITW #14 – Billow (new single “Girls”, out now)
Billow is a four-piece dream pop band from Veselí nad Moravou, Czech Republic. Veselí is a small town in South Moravia – not far from the White Carpathians mountains where Billow write and record their songs. Billow’s debut album, Maps, was released in 2017 on a Slovakian cassette label Z...
ALBUM REVIEW #19 – Trivial Shields, Levity EP (out April 10, 2020)
With Levity EP, multi-instrumentalist Christian Carpenter aka Trivial Shields invites you to a world full of energy, contemplation, and fun. All this in three tracks only. Christian Carpenter’s CV? Judge by yourself: among other experiences, his previous band, My Dear Disco (with Theo Katzmann and Joey Dosik) preceded the creation of Vulfpeck. It’s no...
BOOK REVIEW #8 – Sarah Elaine Smith, Marilou is Everywhere (Penguin Random House)
Sarah Elaine Smith’s Marilou is Everywhere was published a few months ago, and is now getting a due and essential reissue. The plot of the book is not revolutionary itself, but the reader’s experience is the true and spectacular value delivered by the author. Consumed by the longing for a different...
ALBUM REVIEW #18 – Horse Lords, The Common Task (Northern Spy Records)
When we first heard about Horse Lords and their forthcoming album The Common Task, we read the following lines : Horse Lords make music for the liberation of mind and body. Five listenings later (and counting), we are really happy to confirm that these words weren’t a form of overstatement. Let us...
ITW #13 – Janaki’s Palace (Everything is Temporary, out now)
Chiara, Lorenzo, Carlo, Matteo and Lorenzo form Janaki’s Palace. They released their stellar EP “Everything is Temporary” last January, and you should absolutely listen to it. Remember the excitement we felt for Lunar Vacation? This very same excitement is back with Janaki’s Palace. Lorenzo Lena (drums) gave us some of...
THIS WEEK IN ARTS VOL.4: Punk Graphics exhibition at the ADAM Design Museum of Brussels
Want to hide from the current meteorological nonsense? In need of releasing (or getting back to) your Raw Power? Search no more: Punk Graphics is the exhibition you must visit at the ADAM Design Musuem of Brussels, located next to the famous Atomium. This exhibition soothes the eternal “what is...
BOOK REVIEW #6 – John Berger & Selçuk Demirel, What Time Is It? (Notting Hill Editions)
The story behind the production of What Time Is It? is essentially meta. What Time Is It? is the result of a continuous battle against time for the sake of literary production. For the sake of material too precious to be lost or put on hold. John Berger (1928 – 2017) hardly...
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“The Priestess of Polka Dots”, a.k.a. Yayoï Kusama, is an avant-garde artist and writer of Japanese descent. After moving to New York in 1957, (with an extra push from Georgia O’Keefe), her artwork went from 2D to… infinity. While painting still remains one of Kusama’s daily artistic mediums, her forte...
ALBUM REVIEW #7 – ggpeach, Good Comes in Threes
She’s back! When we heard about Georgia’s plans to release a new EP (following Melt and her successful wanderings with SWEAT) under the now-renowned name ggpeach, we jumped on the occasion. We were right to do so. As always, don’t you know?
WHY I WRITE VOL.3 – Carol Persego
Politics, literature, movies, nothing seems to escape her eye and constructive criticism. Born in Sao Paulo and living in Lisbon, Carol Persego is a literary talent in the making.
ALBUM REVIEW #10 – Cat Casual & The Final Word, The Secret Self
BIO: An Okie by birth, William Benton (aka Cat Casual) spent many years making music in Louisville, Kentucky writing and performing with bands such as Bodyhammer, Tyrone, Lucky Pineapple, and The Phantom Family Halo. Also, on his Facebook page, Benton claims to have attracted the favors of Tony Clifton as...