SCIENCE EXPERIMENT:

Playing 9 lines per spin, one cent per roll, with each horizontal point the dollar amount left in the machine after each track of the new Woozyhelmet CD, a record that has provided us much joy since the first catch we got of the unmastered tracks.  Party punkie fun indie quiet loud bang bang [...]

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HOLY CRAP SO GOOD. Earlier this year, we were pretty keen on the Born Liars’ Go Back One Day 7”, and why not, it was a tightening up (if not branching out) of the sound they rocked out hella on their Exit Smiling debut. With this new 7”, they’ve kept their better halves in [...]

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What can we say, it’s Rusted Shut. Over the course of their long career (and surprisingly shallow catalog), all manner of music writers have fallen over one another to come up with the right combination of nails, broken glass, paint thinner and nausea metaphors to describe the bleak massiveness of their noise-as-composition approach to [...]

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Over the years, we’ve fondly enjoyed the evolution of one Mr. Beau Beasley - whose No Talk nom de rock is KGBeasley - and indeed we were a late comer to his catalog, which no doubt extends backwards further than an F-350 pickup. From the blinding grind of Insect Warfare to the to the [...]

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In this election season, our minds shift inevitably towards politics. Regardless of the outcome, it’s comforting to think that, for the first in our lifetimes, a scholarly mind may come to sit behind the mahogany in the oval office. This is by no means to denigrate the businessmen or ideologues or career politickers [...]

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Generally, we’re not into simple arrangements. Nothing gets us hotter than some Pet Sounds action - all those clever little nuances and parts and instruments that pop up for just a moment once in a song or an album. If there aren’t 13 overdubbed guitars playing backwards and four random beats on a [...]

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“Paula Abdul taught us how to dance”
- Dusty Hill
Oh word? The ‘Top, having for quite a while not been upon it, has recently undertaken some steps to dust off (or, well, actually to re-apply the dust and dirt to) their iconic though no longer laconic brand. It started with the replacement of [...]

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It’s nearly impossible to talk about music in Houston without delving into hip-hop, yet somehow we’ve managed to do a pretty good job avoiding the genre until now. Truth is, we love the rap in town, we just think it gets plenty of press everywhere else, and would never describe our taste in it [...]

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(YUSS - TWO FOR TUESDAY REVIEWS!) Sometimes we are concerned that people misinterpret our affinity for the cover song. It’s true, whenever we are able to point one out (or organize a ten band festival where people play nothing but them) we seem to take the opportunity to do so. It’s not [...]

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There is a moment, a point in your time-line, where self-objectivity and the theory of cool split and you’re forced to make a choice about it.  Usually, this has something to do with the Odyssey of the Mind.  The further back in your personal narrative you go, the harder it is to have any real [...]

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