Mainly Rock

When you are a Wilco fan, you don’t just listen to Wilco, but you also follow all of the side projects. One of those is Loose Fur, which is composed of Jeff Tweedy, Glenn Kotche (the Drummer) and Jim O’Rourke (Wilco-producer, but, of course, also plenty of other stuff). They have a new album coming [...]

This blog has been in some serious hibernation since my last post. This is mainly due to the crazy amout of work I’ve had lately but also (to a much lesser extent) because of the new Cat Power album which is next on my list of albums to be reviewed.

When The Strokes appeared on the scene in 2001, I didn’t quite get all the excitement, because their music wasn’t all that new, even if I quite liked it. The Strokes certainly did not invent guitar-based rock music, but their success marked the beginning of the period (which hasn’t really ended yet) where rock music [...]

I’ve written about The Kevins before (here and here) and now it’s about time to write a review on the album… According to their bio, The Kevins are two brothers and the album was recorded in Wichita, Kansas. I’m not sure this should be taken absolutely seriously, but it doesn’t really matter either. The music [...]

So first we had Saddle Creek, home of Bright Eyes and now we have Merge records, home of Robert Pollard (ex-Guided by Voices) picking up the same idea. This article (found via coolfer ) gives the details and also makes a good analysis of why this makes sense (or not)

The Coachella festival is the only US Rock Festitval, that I am aware of, that can compare with what goes on over here in Europe, although it’s only two days. Quite often the bands that play at Coachella end up doing the festival circuit in Europe in the summer, so even if California is a [...]