Mixtape 152 :: The Power of the One
You can say that bedrock funk bassist Bootsy Collins is The One, and you would be right on so many levels.
You can say that bedrock funk bassist Bootsy Collins is The One, and you would be right on so many levels.
Sometimes rock and roll seems to get stuck in a rut, but The New Madness bring fresh life to a sound that was old before they were born.
The first wave of UK punk crested and shrank back, but the Mekons are still thrashing and foaming.
Part of what will be known as the Great Australian Psychedelic Expansion, Bananagun is more incense and lava lamps than strobes and smoke machines.
If a mermaid learned to play surf guitar, she could give Olivia Jean some exciting competition, at least for a little while.
Beat the Champ (Merge). Review by Scott Adams.
Grey Buried (Quite Scientific). Review by Aaron Shaul.
Drunken Barn Dance (Pedal Bark/Quite Scientific). Review by Aaron Shaul.
Heretic Pride (4AD). Review by Erica Belfiore.
Ghana (3 Beads of Sweat). Review by Matthew Moyer.
John Darnielle has been the Mountain Goats for almost ten years. His voice an…
Protein Source of the Future… Now! (Ajax). Review by Anton Wagner
Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory (Jagjaguwar). Review by Peter Lindblad.
This week, Christopher Long goes “gaga” over discovering an ’80s treasure: an OG vinyl copy of Spring Session M, the timeless 1982 classic from Missing Persons — for just six bucks!
Both bold experiment and colossal failure in the 1960s, Esperanto language art house horror film Incubus returns with pre-_Star Trek_ William Shatner to claim a perhaps more serious audience.
You Can’t Tell Me I’m Not What I Used To Be (North & Left Records). Review by Randy Radic.
In this latest installment of his weekly series, Christopher Long is betrayed by his longtime GF when she swipes his copy of Loretta Lynn’s Greatest Hits Vol. II right out from under his nose while rummaging through a south Florida junk store.