If the much-loved genius-punks of Wire were thirty years ahead of their time at the time of 1977's unspeakably great Pink Flag, that would mean we're all just catching up with them now (I'm looking at you, every "post-punk" band out there …

Former Silkworm members form new band, Bottomless Pit Following the death of drummer Michael Dahlquist in a 2005 car accident, unassuming indie rock mainstays Silkworm were gone-- but not forgotten by the loyal cult of fans who kept them g…

久しぶり渋谷。人間関係で週刊誌熟読。 セルティックvsミラン。

Mark those calendars now: January 22, 2008 is the day we cash in all those Best Buy and Target holiday gift cards* and purchase copies of Cat Power's previously discussed sophomore plunge into the realm of cover-dom. The date comes from a …

Subtle's had a bad run. As we've reported in these pages, in the last two years, the genre-bending Oaklend sextet survived a tour van crash that left keyboardist Dax Pierson a quadriplegic, were robbed in Europe, and their major label debu…

上島。江藤淳の文章が染みる。 花田勝離婚。

Satan says, "You're welcome." Like their music, White Magic's sorcery is a low-key affair. We're talking Level 1 Wicca stuff, Level 2 at the most. So for the follow-up to their 2006 debut full-length, Dat Rosa Mel Apibus, instead of gather…

Selling out just ain't what it used to be. The concept is as ambiguous and potentially moot as ever, but now it usually comes with handy explanatory quotes. Just ask Kim Gordon, who, along with the rest of Sonic Youth, has taken some flak …

With all the difficult-to-decipher doodling going down in Camp Radiohead these days, it's nice to get a little information-- even if it is, in fact, very little information-- from one of indie rock's other pillars. Information that doesn't…

駅前の上島。外出気分をそぐ気候。『24』シーズン５。 巨人、ワイプ画面で優勝決定！ CSシリーズ導入したとたんに優勝とはツイてないね。

On vacation from Sonic Youth, Thurston Moore brought the surname-free Trees Outside the Academy inside an academy of sorts this past Thursday, rocking Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. It was College Night, which meant young men and women of l…

今日も涼しい。 ワイドショーはエリカ様一色。格好のプロモーション。まあ司会の元アナウンサーにも問題あると思うが。 朝風呂浴びて昼過ぎに駅前の喫茶店。AERA。週刊朝日。 細々とした雑用を。