Friday, October 7 2011
Jean-Teddy Filippe’s ‘Forbidden Files’: Found Footage Lost (and Found Again)
Oddly missing in histories of the "found footage" genre, Jean-Teddy Filippe's "Forbidden Files" offers intriguing glimpses at horror and fantasy flickering into an uneasy camcorder reality, ten years before The Blair Witch Project made it fashionable (and lame).
Thursday, July 21 2011
Woods: Sun and Shade
The Brooklyn-based lo-fi outfit churns out another solid collection of crackly guitar-pop -- with a few more-than-gratuitous psych-jams for questionable measure.
Tuesday, July 19 2011
Hospital Ships: Lonely Twin
Hospital Ships' Jordan Geiger comes into his own on latest LP.
Thursday, June 16 2011
Sebadoh: Bakesale (Deluxe Edition)
Bakesale is a totemic touchstone of a record, one that is arguably as important to the development of indie rock as a form as Guided by Voices’ Bee Thousand and Pavement’s Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain.
Wednesday, February 2 2011
Sic Alps: Napa Asylum
Lo-fi devotees Sic Alps shred a good deal of the layers of noise that shrouded their past releases in favor of more straight-forward, blues-inspired songwriting -- it's a good experiment, but they haven't quite worked out the kinks yet.
Wednesday, November 17 2010
And Start West, Again and Again and Again…
Can we, finally, begin pondering how cultures outside of the West—outside of London and New York—conceive of terms like indie and punk?
Sunday, October 3 2010
Brad Laner: Natural Selections
Textured and ambitious, Natural Selections is a fine work of modern psychedelic pop.
Friday, July 23 2010
Losing My Religion: Revealing the Hollow Reality of Lo-Fi
This whole lo-fi thing, in its current form, is an affectation—a performance, a pose, the indie community’s response to “Vogue”. And this upcoming Guided By Voices tour will only enhance the performative aspects of the supposedly authentic aesthetic they have been championed for canonizing.
Wednesday, May 12 2010
Woods: At Echo Lake
Brookyln's Woods have proven themselves to be lightyears ahead of their compatriots on this riveting indie-folk collection.
Friday, April 9 2010
Dum Dum Girls: I Will Be
Dum Dum Girls aren't just indie-pop girl-group revivalists. They're also making their own history on I Will Be, their standout debut.
