Made Out of Babies: An Interview with the Band

UPDATE: I’ve got an entire update/lowdown from Julie Xmas on her new solo record as well as what has been going on in the MOOB camp including info on their new record, new producer!, new loads of noisy AWESOME. I saw Brendan last Friday night at the Casbah, looks like he is doing some tour [...]

Muxtape!

If you are old enough to remember making mix tapes for friends and possible lovers you’ll appreciate this new web app Travis and the buddyhead crew turned me on to called muxtape. It is a super easy app, takes about 5-10 min to make a mix and the sound quality is good (er, decent for [...]

Planet Rooth Studios Show

This was the highlight of the “San Diego” Indie Music Fest. It was great! I did go over to the Rubber Rose and caught a good punk rock band bashing it out. It was hard to get to though cause of that stupid Beer Garden set up right in front. Stopped by Bar Pink Elephant [...]

The Good Life: An Interview with Tim Kasher

I love indie rock. Cursive is indie rock. So is Tim’s other band, The Good Life. Sometimes when I listen to Storms of Early Summer, I’ll listen to Album of the Year directly after. They are a part of a whole. A body of work from one of our generations most talented artists. I had [...]

MP3’s suck and so do films on phones!

Yes, the MP3 is the greatest lie perpetrated by Apple in the history of new music formats. “They’re making it easier to make things worse,” said Lou Reed recently, where he also referenced this amazing clip of David Lynch discussing viewing films on small little hand helds. Don’t be so content with how your entertainment [...]

San Diego Indie Music Fest!

Get Ready to be completely underwhelmed!
Its almost that time of year again when the best in the ‘Indie’ world descend on Northpark for two days of music and mayhem! Who? That’s what I thought when I got an email from Citybeat, directing me to the Indie Music Fest website. Hey, I know who James Marsters [...]

Shirts for A Cure: Austin, TX with Hot Water Music

This show was made possible by Marc Beamer and the Shirts for a Cure Folks. Please go and visit them, buy a shirt of your favorite band and help them spread their message of hope.
About SSE:
The Syrentha J. Savio Endowment (SSE) was established by punk-rock photographer Mark Beemer in 2002. SSE provides financial assistance to [...]

Hot Water Music: Live at Shirts For A Cure sxsw 2008

Love those “Trusty Chords”

Cursed III: Architects of Troubled Sleep (March 25, 2008!)

This is one of my most anticipated releases of spring 2008. Cursed is an amazing hardcore band from Toronto who completely rule. Here is the cover art.
The album drops next Tuesday, March 25. They’re touring Canada, lets hope they make their way down to San Diego, we’ll welcome them with open arms. From the look [...]

Radio Dead Transmission

This is an essay/in depth version of my Radio’s Dying Gasps post. This latest post was published on Milehive.com a few weeks back.
“We can control the medium/ We can control the context of presentation.” - T. Gabel
You don’t really need a wiki entry to tell you that Top 40 radio acts as” an arbiter and [...]