By all accounts, Joel Allen Schroeder has few vices. Besides his love of filmmaking- a pursuit which has landed the Minnesota resident in Hollywood after a sti... Read More...
Ryan Sollee is not the typical American rock star. Born and raised in the cold, moose-populated environs of Alaska, the former punk rocker, marine biologist, a... Read More...
Oh, autumn. Leaves changing colors, back-to-school, and cold weather. And a brand new batch of ridiculously dumb shows on television. Luckily for you all, I wil... Read More...
My love for witty banter and adventure traces back to my early gaming years spent gleefully applying verbs to gun-toting lagomorphs, sass-talking pirates, grizz... Read More...
Mean Creek
The Sky (Or the Underground)
Old Flame Records
8/10
The quartet, known as Mean Creek aren’t exactly pussies. In a space of a year and a half, th... Read More...
Dappled Cities
Zounds
Dangerbird Records/ Speak N’Spiel
9/10
Australia is known for two things: Vegemite and Men at Work. Soon to be three, actually, thank... Read More...
1. You’re just so hot.
2. It’s been a while.
3. It’s this medication I’m on.
4. Fuck it, I’m tired.
5. I look out for number one.
6. Oh, I thought you were... Read More...
This is not for the gear sluts. So you don’t have the budget to record at Capitol Studios…Big whoop. Elliot Smith recorded “Roman Candle” in his ex’s basement. ... Read More...
Epitaph Records band, I Am Ghost, is a paradigm for up and coming rock bands. Despite their North American and European tour logs, the Long Beach based group st... Read More...
Alvin Band
Mantis Preying
Intelligent Noise Records
9/10
Put a white version of Bobby McFerrin with Aphex Twin’s eccentricity in your mind, and you’ve go... Read More...
Frankel
Anonymity is the New Fame
Autumn Tone
8/10
By day, Michael Orendy is just another regular, working class musician, playing in bands, moonlighting in... Read More...
Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band
Between My Head and the Sky
Chimera Music
7/10
múm
Sing Along to Songs You Don’t Know
Fatcat
8/10
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Again, Racket has one of them fancy moving picture interviews! This one's conducted by Ryan Greer and filmed/edited by Edd Flynn. Have at it.... Read More...
Bobby Tamkin, the mastermind behind psych-rock band Xu Xu Fang, talks about their red-hot private concert, along with other sizzling insights about music.
R... Read More...
.357 Lover
Diorama of the Golden Lion
Self-Released
10/10
.357 Lover’s debut LP, Diorama of the Golden Lion rises up from the saturated musical mire and ... Read More...
Kittie
In The Black
E1 Records
9/10
Last time I heard from these scary Canadian chicks was either the ’99 or ’00 OzzFest. Attractive, roughly my age and ... Read More...
