I recently contributed to a new feature at AOL’s music site, Spinner.com, called Where It’s At. It’s basically a map of famous locations of musical and pop cultural significance. Check it out.
Published Work
Crippled Black Phoenix – 200 Tons of Bad Luck (Invada)
Super prog-rock group featuring members of Mogwai and Electric Wizard puts out a veritable Pink Floyd tribute album. Eh. Read all about it here.
Pink Mountaintops – Outside Love (Jagjaguwar)
Just a quick post as I get all moved into my new digs in Brooklyn. Here’s my review of the new Pink Mountaintops album. Not as good as the last two records, but not bad.
Dan Deacon – Bromst (Car Park)
I’m on the road from LA to NY, currently in New Orleans, but I’m taking the time, goddammit, to let you know that Dan Deacon’s new album is good. Read my review here.
The Juan MacLean – The Future Will Come (DFA)
The Juan MacLean’s latest engages in a more pure form of electronic music than LCD Soundsystem and other DFA cohorts. They are also on some serious ’80s shit. Read my review here.
Grand Duchy – Petit Fours (Cooking Vinyl)
Frank Black and wife make music. It’s good. Read here.
A-Trak – Infinity +1 (Thrive/Fool’s Gold)
Junior Boys – Begone Dull Care
The new Junior Boys album, Begone Dull Care (Domino), offers up some fine mid-tempo house and techno dusted with some poppy vocals. Read my review here.
Spring Edition – Glaciers of Ice
This month, I cover the latest J Dilla collection, a bunch of Living Legends stuff, and some new Detroit shit from Finale. Read it all here.
Would You Pay to Have Your CDs Ripped?
For some folks, the answer is a resounding “yes,” but it seems you have to have more disposable income than time… Still, there are plenty of companies offering this service. I analyze the situation, along with the skyrocketing numbers of people visiting independent record stores’ buy counters to sell off their old collections, for SF Weekly. Read it here.
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