May 22nd 3 Comments
Jobs were passed down generationally between strangers. One guy became an editor at a magazine, but used to be a music buyer at Mondo Kim's on St. Marks. My friend got the job and started a shoegaze… Read Story »
May 16th 2 Comments
Recently, Matthew Houck, aka Phosphorescent, played at New York's Bowery Ballroom in celebration of the release of his latest album Muchacho, which is by no means his first, but definitely his… Read Story »
May 8th Comment
If Nina Nastasia and Jim White made an album that acted as an intimate conversation between their audience and themselves, then Ray Raposa's Castanets project cuts out the listener entirely. Across… Read Story »
May 1st 1 Comment
Writing about Jim White's drumming is difficult. Last week, I covered Chan Marshall, aka Cat Power's seminal Moon Pix, an album that benefits as much from her willingness to embrace her own demons as… Read Story »
Apr 24th 10 Comments
Writing is about myth making. Taking the true aspects of yourself and defining them so clearly that they become you. Marginal personality tics explode into full character traits, sadness becomes a… Read Story »
Apr 10th 5 Comments
At the end of Louis CK's recent interview in The New York Times, he talks about how Woody Allen went out on a limb to make Take The Money and Run, a mockumentary about a criminal who really sucked at… Read Story »
Apr 3rd 6 Comments
Sometimes I think I hate Silkworm. Firewater, which is largely regarded as their greatest album in a catalog that's full of as many great moments as overlooked ones, is a difficult, confrontational,… Read Story »
Mar 27th 9 Comments
In 2006, Vancouver band Ladyhawk released their self-titled debut album. There are a lot of ways you could describe it: beer-soaked, stoney, depressed, brawny, reminiscent of Crazy Horse. At various… Read Story »
Mar 19th 5 Comments
Over the weekend, Jason Molina died of organ failure due to alcohol consumption. His label, Secretly Canadian, released a statement. He'd been to rehab, and the last public news about his whereabouts… Read Story »
Mar 13th 7 Comments
Welcome to Backtrack, Sam Hockley-Smith’s new Stereogum column dedicated to a remembrance of great things past, of important records situated in the middle ground between Legendary Reissue Status… Read Story »
