February 2012
75 posts
1 tag
2 tags
Track Review / Moonface
http://www.cokemachineglow.com/dailyops/6820/moonface-tearyeyes-2012
To be released by Jagjaguwar on April 17, Heartbreaking Bravery was recorded with Finnish band Siinai apparently acting more or less as Krug’s backing band, and this first single is a surprisingly upbeat rocker that….wait, what? Palm-muted guitars? Anthemic synth cascades? “Teary eyes and bloody lips make you look like Stevie...
1 tag
Red Red Meat :: “Gauze” Album: Bunny Gets Paid (Sub Pop; 1995/re: 2009)
2 tags
Record Review / Lambchop
http://www.cokemachineglow.com/record_review/6822/lambchop-mrm-2012
Mr. M is something to behold in its details: the kind of record that seems to open up gradually over time, graceful and pretty sure but brimming subcutaneously with many yet-undiscovered pleasures, be it a clever turn of phrase, the barely audible plucking of a harp, or the charming way one melody floats into another.
1 tag
17 tags
WatchCMG Podcast #111 :: http://www.cokemachineglow.com/podcast/6811/cmgpodcast-cxi 1. Pop 1280: “Bodies in the Dunes” 2. Tu Fawning: “Bones” 3. Blackout Beach: “Mt. Harsh” / “Pink Helicopters” 4. Frankie Rose: “Interstellar” 5. Dustin Wong: “Ice Sheets on Feet Prints” 6. Mouse on Mars: “Gearknot Cherry” 7. Battles:...
1 tag
1 tag
2 tags
Choice Selections from the CMG Hatebag
Re: Death Cab for Cutie: Plans Your review of death cab’s “plans” only makes you sound like an out-of-touch asshole. If lyrics were written the way you wanted them artists would just be stringing together poetic lines from compleley unrelated thoughts, and glueing them together into a modern stew that stuck-up assholes like you can get off in so they feel awesome....
1 tag
1 tag
Frankie Rose :: “Night Swim” Album: Interstellar (Slumberland; 2012)
2 tags
Record Review / Shearwater
http://www.cokemachineglow.com/record_review/6815/shearwater-animaljoy-2012
This album creates [a] space where both that source of fear and joy are simultaneous, inevitable, and sublime. “Sublime,” conveniently, also happens to be the way it sounds.
1 tag
1 tag
2 tags
Record Review / Howlin' Rain
http://www.cokemachineglow.com/record_review/6810/howlinrain-russianwilds-2011
As with anything tagged with the Ethan Miller name, warm nostalgia trumps originality. But it’s also unfair to call Howlin’ Rain a mere ’70s tribute band at this point … these guys simply exhibit too much enthusiasm to be relegated to mere also-rans in the long shadow of Miller’s previous band. The...
3 tags
R.I.P. Christopher Reimer (1986 - 2012)
In memory of Christopher John Joseph Reimer: http://christopherjohnjosephreimer.com/
Women :: “Heat Distraction” Album: Public Strain (Flemish Eye/Jagjaguwar; 2010)
Azeda Booth :: “Lobster Quadrille” Album: In Flesh Tones (Absolutely Kosher; 2008)
1 tag
2 tags
Record Review / Dustin Wong
http://www.cokemachineglow.com/record_review/6814/dustinwong-dreamssay-2012
This record might find itself ignored for living in the space between what we expect from bands and what we expect from individuals—there’s no chanting backups, but neither will you see Wong’s face lit up in the dark by a laptop as mash-ups emerge from somewhere overhead. And in simultaneously capturing simplicity of...
1 tag
1 tag
This Week in CMG: 2007
Slogan: “Betz hates.” Record Reviews: Radicalfashion :: Odori [Chet Betz; 76%] Do Make Say Think :: You, You’re a History in Rust [Joel Elliott; 69%] The One AM Radio :: This Too Will Pass [David Greenwald; 72%] Jatun :: Jatun (NBH) [Conrad Amenta; 79%] Aqueduct :: Or Give Me Death [Craig Eley; 61%] Jill Cunniff :: City Beach (Reissue) [David M. Goldstein; 61%] RZA :: Afro...
1 tag
Dog Day :: “Synastry” Album: Elder Schoolhouse 12” (Divorce; 2009)
2 tags
Record Review / Field Music
http://www.cokemachineglow.com/record_review/6812/fieldmusic-plumb-2012
Whatever it might occasionally remind you of, this album mostly just sounds like Field Music at their best. Plumb is a brilliantly composed and deftly executed set of indie pop songs that will, if you give the album a few listens, worm their way into your brain and make a nice home for themselves there.
2 tags
Mike Love, Douche #29
“Hey kid, quick, c’mere. As soon as the theremin kicks in? Me and you. Douche-off.”
2 tags
Record Review / Craig Finn
http://www.cokemachineglow.com/record_review/6787/craigfinn-clearheartfulleyes-2012
Finn may not have given us the next great Hold Steady album, but he’s done something better in the long-run: he’s crafted a record that trades on his strengths while exploring new ground it was only inevitable he’d tread, a ground and a path perhaps more befitting a man of his age.
1 tag
1 tag
Devin Davis :: “Giant Spiders” Album: Lonely People of the World, Unite! (Mousse; 2005)
2 tags
Record Review / Pop. 1280
http://www.cokemachineglow.com/record_review/6801/pop1280-thehorror-2012
With a dark, uncompromising foundation in the artier, industrial end of East Coast guitar rock—think Cop Shoot Cop, Swans, and more recently Liars—but with an ear toward the uniquely Midwestern provocations of the Jesus Lizard and Killdozer, Pop. 1280 have a firm grasp on the sonic lineage they hope to sustain.
2 tags
List / Top 30 "Other" Albums of the '90s
…according to our staff seven years ago: http://www.cokemachineglow.com/feature/3505/listravaganza-2005-top-30-other-albums-of-the-90s
Fun game: see if you can guess which Tripping Daisy album Scott crowbarred into this feature before you hit page three. Also, enjoy remembering Gay Dad existed!
4 tags
2 tags
Record Review / Rick Ross
http://www.cokemachineglow.com/record_review/6789/rickross-richforever-2012
Largely forsaking South Beach slink in favor of Lugerian thump, Rich Forever certainly feels titanic, like Ricky’s gone supernova and started eating gold-plated planets for lunch.
1 tag
Circulatory System :: “Diary of Wood” Album: Circulatory System (Cloud Recordings; 2001)
2 tags
Track Review / Clark
http://www.cokemachineglow.com/dailyops/6774/clark-comtouch-2012
Some may be tempted to call it warm and summery, but fear no chillwave, because as with previous Clark work, the sun quickly turns into something ominous and merciless, a fierce desert deity that hypnotizes with heatstroke instead of offering any kind of warm welcome. It’s the darkness of those shadows that Clark knows so well, and...
1 tag
WatchYamantaka // Sonic Titan :: “Hoshi Neko” Album: YT//ST (Psychic Handshake; 2011)
2 tags
Record Review / Sharon Van Etten
http://www.cokemachineglow.com/record_review/6805/sharonvanetten-tramp-2012
There are better singers and songwriters making the rounds, but few can sell those ineffable feelings of loneliness, heartbreak, and enervation on tape as well as Sharon Van Etten. No wonder Cat Power keeps coming up as an easy point of reference—her wounded, contralto croak sounds as natural to soar into a breathtaking...
3 tags
WatchNBHcast XVIII: http://www.cokemachineglow.com/podcast/6793/cmgnbhcast-xviii
4 tags
Rae Spoon :: “I Wanna Dance With Somebody [Whitney Houston cover]” From the upcoming CMG Fantasy Covers podcast The ’80s, Part Two
2 tags
Choice Selections from the CMG Hatebag
re: The Tragically Hip - We Are the Same I guess this will quailfy as hate mail. Not really sure why you said the things you did about ” We Are The Same “ by The Tragically Hip It is a great album,as great as “World Container ” or “Phantom Power” Every album (CD ) can’t be “Road Apples” or”“Henhouse”. People evolve, grow...
1 tag
Sean Nicholas Savage :: “You Changed Me” Album: Flamingo (Arbutus; 2011)
4 tags
Photo-Ops
Nicki Minaj’s plea to be pointed to the best ass eater has finally been answered.
