Jason Drake is having a hard time concentrating.
It’s late July 2009, and he’s chatting with me on his cell from a Whole Foods parking lot somewhere in L.A. Continue reading
Archive for the Features Category
Meet And Greet: Cassettes Won’t Listen
Posted in Features, Interviews, Meet And Greet with tags Aesop Rock, Cassettes Won't Listen, El-P, INXS, Liz Phair, Mr. Lif, Pavement, the Cure, the Dears on 01/10/2010 by Kurt OrzeckMeet And Greet: Imaad Wasif Goes Into The Voidist
Posted in Features, Interviews, Meet And Greet with tags alaska!, Dale Crover, Dinosaur Jr., Dwarves, Imaad Wasif, Josh Homme, Kyuss, Lou Barlow, lowercase, Melvins, Minutemen, Red Sparowes, Sebadoh, Yeah Yeah Yeahs on 01/07/2010 by Kurt Orzeck
Contrary to what ProTools fanatics might tell you, visionaries are hard to come by these days. During an era in which it’s incumbent upon artists to market and promote themselves. During an era in which selling out has become something of a moot point. Continue reading
Meet And Greet: Double Dagger
Posted in Features, Interviews, Meet And Greet with tags Dan Deacon, Double Dagger, Fugazi on 01/04/2010 by Kurt Orzeck
Baltimore officials call it the “Greatest City in America.”
Some residents think otherwise.
Meet And Greet: Cougar
Posted in Features, Interviews, Meet And Greet with tags 65daysofstatic, Aphex Twin, Auetchre, Cougar, Four Tet, Fugazi, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, John McEntire, Mogwai, Slint, Tortoise on 01/03/2010 by Kurt Orzeck
Cougar want to be clear: In choosing their moniker, the last thing the Midwestern instrumentalists wanted was for people to think of older divorcées hunting for young men. Continue reading
Cover Me: French Miami’s French Miami
Posted in Cover Me, Features, Interviews with tags Brian Eno, Daft Punk, Death, French Miami, Genesis, John Carpenter, Kraftwerk, Minor Threat, My Bloody Valentine, Nirvana, Polvo, the Fucking Champs, the Mae Shi, the Velvet Underground, Trans Am on 01/03/2010 by Kurt Orzeck
An ongoing series in which musicians reveal the artists they’d most like to hear covering their songs. Continue reading
In Flames Album Discography: Drummer Touches ‘Em All
Posted in Discographies, Features, Interviews with tags Dark Tranquillity, In Flames, Slayer on 01/02/2010 by Kurt Orzeck
The man who pounds the kit for one of the best-known death-metal bands in the world isn’t an angry dude. He’s not even tense. In fact, he’s so mellow at times that you might be tempted to take his pulse. Continue reading
Anagrams: Touch And Go Bands
Posted in Features, Fun And Games on 01/02/2010 by Kurt Orzeck
Anagrams. Man a rag, you say? Cool, then we’re on the same page. Continue reading
An Extremely Long Conversation About Extreme Metal With Albert Mudrain
Posted in Features, Interviews, What You Readin' For? with tags Accept, Amon Amarth, Arch Enemy, At the Gates, Behemoth, Black Sabbath, Botch, Brutal Truth, Carcass, Converge, Dark Tranquillity, Darkthrone, Deicide, Dissection, Emperor, Entombed, In Flames, Job for a Cowboy, Lamb of God, Mastodon, Mayhem, Megadeth, Metallica, Monster Magnet, Morbid Angel, Neurosis, Nile, Opeth, Ozzy Osbourne, Pig Destroyer, Radiohead, Repulsion, Scott Kelly, Slayer, Suicide Silence, the Beatles, the Dillinger Escape Plan on 01/02/2010 by Kurt Orzeck
There is horror cinema. And then there is splatter cinema.
There is drug use. And then there is drug addiction.
There is heavy metal. And then there is extreme metal. Continue reading
‘Burning’ Questions For Brian Peterson: A Conversation About Hardcore Punk And Beyond
Posted in Features, Interviews, What You Readin' For? with tags 108, Cipher, Dead Kennedys, Downcast, Earth Crisis, Los Crudos, Racetraitor, Shelter, Vegan Reich on 01/01/2010 by Kurt Orzeck
They say if you remember the ’60s, you weren’t really there. Well, the opposite can be said for straightedge punk in the ’90s: After all, if you were trooly into hardcore, you were cold sober the whole time. Continue reading
Isis’ Oceanic: Mystery Revealed?
Posted in Essays, Features, What You Readin' For? with tags Aaron Turner, Isis on 01/01/2010 by Kurt Orzeck
Almost eight years after Isis pulled back the curtain on what stands as their strongest release to date, Oceanic, debate over its lyrical content lingers like an ebbed wave on the shore. Continue reading
The Bad Penny (beta) 