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Pink Mountaintops @ The Borderline, May 11th.

5786 days ago
Music MuleWhat? Pink Mountaintops Pink Mountaintops are Steve McBean’s (of Canadain band Black Mountain fame) psychedelic, noise pop side project. Mojo magazine recently described them as ‘The Velvet Underground to Black Mountain’s Black Sabbath’. That... more info

THE MERRY MONTH OF MAY (Day 2) : TRASHCAN SONATAS

5788 days ago
The Vinyl VillainWhen JC mentioned that he was looking for guest writers to fill these fine pages, I was fairly keen to get involved. My own wee blog, Plain Or Pan is becoming increasingly popular. I often wish more people would’ve been with me from the start,... more info

24 hour arty people

5801 days ago
Guardian MusicIt's the Big Bang of art and pop music: Andy Warhol's explosive collision with the Velvet Underground.Behind the impenetrable void lurked an outsider's rage. As a working-class gay man from Pittsburgh, Andy Warhol had an incredible drive to assimilat... more info

Fricke’s Picks: Spanish Electricity at SXSW

5807 days ago
Rolling StoneIt was only 9 p.m. on opening night when I hit my first pay dirt of this year’s SXSW in Austin: Capsula a kinetic trio from Bilbao, Spain — singer-guitarist Martin Guevara and bassist Coni Duchess, the band’s founding couple, are originally fro... more info

{MP3} Zera Marvel (Riyl Neko Case - Mazzy Star) - “Birds And Bullets Flew” (Self, April 8)

5807 days ago
Songs:IllinoisNamedropping Opal and Mazzy Star probably won’t get me very far with the younger generation but you can’t listen to Zera Marvel’s songs and not reference those bands. Another generation might point to Velvet Underground or before that Billie H... more info

The JD Set Introduces The Novocaines

5810 days ago
Undercover, AustraliaPerth band The Novocaines draws its inspiration from The Velvet Underground and The Stooges. more info

AC/DC: Let There Be Respect

5810 days ago
Guardian MusicAC/DC should be treated as a great rock band - not held, as they are by 'critics', on a scale between single-cell creatures and homo erectusNext week AC/DC return to these shores for their first UK gigs since a one-off in Hammersmith in 2003. They wi... more info

The Shortwave Set:
Danger Mouse, Van Dyke, Cale

5811 days ago
JamBaseThe Shortwave Set Replica Sun Machine Available Now The Shortwave Set Sweet of sound, tart of lyric... besotted with the sun speckled '60s and bang up to date - Q [4/5] The Shortwave Set traveled from South East London to California on borrowed... more info

Crocodiles : Summer Of Hate

5812 days ago
My Old KentuckySan Diego's Crocodiles are about to release their debut album, Summer Of Hate on Fat Possum, and are out on a pretty extensive U.S. tour right now to promote it. The band draws comparisons to Jesus and Mary Chain, Velvet Underground, Spacemen 3 and ... more info

LITTLE GIFTS

5814 days ago
Said the Gramophone Sister Suvi - "Golden". Spent some of yesterday with Merrill Garbus, the woman who is Tune-Yards and one third of Sister Suvi. We took our bikes to the quarry, threw on our walkmen, went down deep. In the gloom we listened to Billy Joel, Pavement, ... more info

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