Monthly Archive: June 2017

Filthy Friends

Sleater Kinney’s Corin Tucker, R.E.M.‘s Peter Buck and Bill Rieflin, Minus 5′ Scott McCaughey, and Fastbacks’ Kurt Bloch are Filthy Friends, and they’ve just announced their debut album, Invitation (due 8/25).  As you may recall,...

Show Of The Week

This week there’s a show that I’ve been excited about for a bit now, and it’s Magna Carda’s Good Friday (Part 5) at the Mohawk.  Presented by 101X Homegrown Live (that’s my radio show!), it...

Movie Breakdown: Transformers: The Last Knight

Pre-Screening Stance: There’s not a single part of me that believes Transformers: The Last Knight is going to be worth my time.  With that being said, I really feel like Michael Bay and Co. have...

Washed Out

It’s Tuesday, so let’s do some dancing!  To help set the mood I’ve got the latest from Washed Out, who have a new visual album, Mister Mellow, coming on June 30.  The song is a...

101X Homegrown Podcast

Check out the latest 101X Homegrown.  Enjoy. (NEW) Big Bill – Stand Still A Giant Dog – Sleep When Dead (NEW) The Sour Notes – Ride It Out (NEW) A. Sinclair – Just Remind Me...

Dizzee Rascal

Back when I was in college I really loved Dizzee Rascal’s Fix Up, Look Sharp.  It’s a totally ridiculous song, and I put it on a lot of mixes because it would always got a...

Movie Breakdown: Rough Night

Pre-Screening Stance: There hasn’t been a single Rough Night trailer that’s made me blow air out of my nose, but I also haven’t seen anything that’s made me roll my eyes and sigh.  I guess...

Chelsea Wolfe

This morning I spent some time with the new song from The Killers and its awfulness drove me to wanting something heavy and raw.  Enter Chelsea Wolfe!  She just announced her sixth album, Hiss Spun...

Movie Breakdown: Cars 3

Pre-Screening Stance: I mostly like the first Cars movie, which is essentially just a re-imagining of Doc Hollywood.  Cars 2 is truly terrible.  Cars 3 seems like it may get the franchise back on …...

Show Of The Week

There are a lot of things happening this week – Solstice Festival, a slew of local album releases parties (Quin Galavis, Night Drive, Matthew Logan Vasquez) and something called Fasten Fest (with Beach Fossils!).  When...