WHY? founding member and lead man Yoni Wolf pays tribute to another adept phrase turner with this cover of Pavement's "Shoot The Singer (1 Sick Verse)," from that band's 1992 EP Watery, Domestic. Wolf is sitting alone at the piano... CONTINUE READING YONI WOLF (WHY?) COVERS PAVEMENT»
Posted on August 5, 2009 in (15 comments)
Tags: of Montreal | Pavement | WHY
It's not that this new WHY? song is necessarily emo, and I don't mean to use the term as a value judgment, but "The Blackest Purse" does include the phrase "earnest hands," the sentence "still sporting my ex-girlfriend's dead ex-boyfriend's... CONTINUE READING NEW WHY? - "THIS BLACKEST PURSE"»
Posted on July 14, 2009 in (23 comments)
Tags: Bumbershoot | Hotels | WHY
"Song Of The Assassin" is such a great choice for first video from Yoni Wolf's label-resisting WHY? outfit's Alopecia LP, just because it captures the album's best elements in four-and-a-half minute form. The track's lyrics start with an extraordinary scene... CONTINUE READING NEW WHY? VIDEO - "SONG OF THE ASSASSIN"»
Posted on March 24, 2008 in , (7 comments)
Tags: Bruce Springsteen | Jessica Lea Mayfield | Super Bowl | SXSW | WHY
That was indeed what we groaned after Korn's butcher job, but as you'll note with the post title's punctuation, this isn't a question so much as a report. A happy report, actually, as it has to do with WHY? the... CONTINUE READING WHY? COVER THE CURE»
Posted on January 17, 2008 in , (3 comments)
Tags: The Cure | WHY
Oakland, Cali based genre hoppers WHY? (think Greenthink, cLOUDDEAD) pull in assistance from Jimmy Tamborello on a pre-release remix of the we're-not-sure-what-this-title-means track "By Torpedo Or Crohn's," from the outfit's forthcoming Anticon 7" The Hollows. Since the album's a few... CONTINUE READING NEW WHY? - "BY TORPEDO OR CROHN'S (DNTEL REMIX)" (STEREOGUM PREMIERE)»
Posted on October 26, 2007 in (11 comments)
Tags: Dntel | WHY