Album Review: Vampire Weekend’s “Contra”
By: Lukas Clark-Memler The modern day rock star job description states that, one must look, sound and act like ridiculous, pretentious caricatures of themselves, at all times. Some have a deep,...
View ArticleAlbum Review – Washed Out “Life of Leisure”
By: Lukas Clark-Memler “History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.” Though this Marxist quote was generally referring to something other than the music industry, it can be applied just...
View ArticleAlbum Review – Kong’s “Snake Magnet”
By: Lukas Clark-Memler What’s the aural version of a punch delivered straight to the face? The auditory equivalent of a shock to the system? The answer is simple; one word, one syllable. Kong. Before...
View ArticleAlbum Review – The Morning Benders’“Big Echo”
By: Lukas Clark-Memler The Morning Benders’ vocalist and founder, Christopher Chu, said in a recent interview, that he likes to attack the recording process with a “Phil Spector kind of vibe.” He went...
View ArticleAlbum Review – Harlem ‘Hippies’
By: Lukas Clark-Memler “The only band we like is Nirvana. The only album we like is Nevermind. The only song we like is “Smells Like Teen Spirit.” No, this is not an obituary for a delusional albeit...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Foals ‘Total Life Forever’
By Lukas Clark-Memler Occasionally a song will come along that is so sonically flawless, that short of the artists responsible declaring their forthright love for Hitler’s policies, committing mass...
View ArticleAlbum Review – Wolf Parade’s “Expo 86″
By Lukas Clark-Memler The 1986 Vancouver World Expo was a magical time. Miles Davis, Johnny Cash and The Beach Boys performed; a Floating McDonalds and the world’s largest ice hockey stick were all on...
View ArticleAlbum Review – Male Bonding “Nothing Hurts”
By Lukas Clark-Memler Lo-fi is an extremely ambiguous word. By definition lo-fi is “music in which the sound is of a lower quality than the usual standard.” But as of late the term lo-fi has come to...
View ArticleAlbum Review – Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti’s “Before Today”
By Lukas Clark-Memler Ariel Pink is our first postmodern rock star. The self-revered Godfather of the chillwave genre has made an impressionable mark on the Los Angeles music scene despite a reclusive...
View ArticleMMXI: A MUSICAL GUIDE
By Lukas Clark-Memler “THE MOST ANTICIPATED ALBUMS OF THE NEXT 12 MONTHS” To look forward we must first look back… …Back to 2010. Based on the success and failures, the hype and thus inevitable...
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