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Review: Lovvers- Think 2009-01-06 02:40:00 At heart, the UK's Lovvers are surfers. Their guitars are the boards and the sonic onslaught of distorted guitar chords and cymbal crashes are the waves. The waters are far too choppy for the faint of heart, so either tough it out or make sand castles on shore.After the release of several 7''s, the band has now breached into EP status with Think. The reasoning behind that title is anybody's guess,
The Needle Drop: 01-03-09 2009-01-03 10:54:00 This week, some energetic garage and the debut of a pop rock entourage.It's our first show of the new year, and we're stepping into 2009 with some new bands and upcoming releases.First up, we've got the debut EP, Rotten Apples, from Voxhaul Broadcast. And even though this is the beginning of the year, it's going to be hard to forget these tracks before 2010 rolls around. This debut makes Voxhaul B Read more:Needle
Fresh Fruit: The G 2008-12-23 10:23:00 Now here is a band with a sound you can sink your teeth into.Like so many groups before them, Philly's the G is walking down the well-traveled paths of shoegaze and grunge, but they've got what so many of these bands think they have: sound. The G's thick, distorted haze is almost enough to rival that of Earth, My Bloody Valentine, or Torche--and that's no overstatement.Make the G your next stop fo Read more:Fruit
Video: The Melvins @ Pancake Mountain 2008-12-16 11:44:00 Even though Nude With Boots wasn't one of my favorite LPs from this year, this performance and this song from the album are both pretty awesome. Plus, it's pretty funny to see the band play into the show's pre-written, puppet-lead sketch.If this visit to the alternative kids' PancakeMountain
proves anything, it's that not enough people dance at shows. We could all take a lesson from the little on