Show Of The Week
This week is a show I’ve been looking forward to since early March. It’s Wiretree’s album release party at Lambert’s! The band’s new LP, Towards The Sky, is very good and currently available, so you...
Monthly Archive: April 2017
Movie Breakdown: Free Fire
Pre-Screening Stance: Ben Wheatley (High-Rise, A Field In England) is a buzzy director and the list of actors he’s assembled for Free Fire includes Brie Larson, Arnie Hammer, Sam Riley, Cillian Murphy, Sharlto Copley and...
Ratboys
While there’s nothing particularly sweet about the name Ratboys, that is the word I think best describes the first single off of their new album, GN (due June 30 via Topshelf). On another note, I...
101X Homegrown Podcast
Here’s this week’s 101X Homegrown! Enjoy. Summer Salt – Candy Wrappers Sweet Spirit – Pretty Baby Abram Shook – The Hours (NEW) Wiretree – Didn’t Know Your Name Good Field – Necessary Feeling Quin Galavis...
Do Make Say Think
One of the nicer things that 2017 has delivered (so far) is the return of Do Make Say Think. The post-rock act was pretty quiet for a good eight years, and now they have a...
Movie Breakdown: Their Finest
Pre-Screening Stance: Once upon a time Lone Scherfig directed An Education, a movie that I still really love. That’s enough for me to be at least a little excited about her new flick. Post-Screening Ramble:...
Land Of Talk
I loved the first Land Of Talk single, then slightly side-eyed the second one, and now I’m adoring the third tune off of the act’s upcoming album, Life After Youth. I guess this means there’s...
Movie Breakdown: The Fate Of The Furious
Pre-Screening Stance: I just made my girlfriend watch all seven previous Fast And Furious entries (practically in a row) because I wanted her to be fully caught up before we saw The Fate Of The...
Show Of The Week
There are three great local release parties happening this week (somehow all on Friday) – Slack Capital 2, The Digital Wild, Hovvdy – but I think the spotlight needs to be pointed towards Chairlift. They’re...
PWR BTTM
While jamming PWR BTTM’s new single, LOL, I realized I hadn’t shared anything from the band’s upcoming sophomore LP, Pageant (due May 12 via Polyvinyl). How silly of me. Below you’ll find all three tunes...
