Found this Simon Reynolds piece from way back when very interesting. (Despite being particularly unfamiliar with Sunn)
Followed that to this interesting essay (which I find apt, since most dubstep strikes me as dreadfully dull but I like what I’ve heard of Burial).
Yes, the conversation is a few years old, but the popularity of a few [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘beards’
May 22, 2009
Bonnie Prince Billy – Live @ The Apollo, May 21, 2009
The highlight of this evening was a deeply intimate version of “Blood Embrace” for which Matt Sweeney came out to play some guitar and sing a bit. Mr. Oldham paced, gestured, scowled and delivered in full a deeply moving performance, looking like a cross between a street preacher touched by the hand of god and [...]
May 7, 2009
Fire on Fire – The Orchard
Some of the more interesting current music fads include MBV reconfigurations, usually with several ladies in the mix; the emergence of “hipster metal”; and lo-fi quirk-rock, of which there has been a steady underground that is righteously pissed at the success of johnny-fuzz-lately types like Wavves.
Sour fuzzy grapes aside, the cultural current that interests me [...]
March 5, 2009
Drone On You Lazy Diamonds (Nadja & Asva)
Band recommendations, like deaths, are rumored to come in threes. Obviously that’s just selection bias, like a lot of what we’d call “folk wisdom” or “making shit up”. Oral traditions are a tangled web, and say what the Zerzanites and the back to the land types will, but I’m all for indexed Google searches and [...]
May 30, 2008
Bonnie “Prince” Billy – Lie Down in the Light
For the longest time I’ve described Will Oldham’s music as the sound of a bewildered encounter with the eternal feminine. I don’t know if that fully stands anymore, but it does accurately describe obvious classics like I See a Darkness.
But Lie Down in the Light is far more celebratory than baffled, which is a nice [...]
