Mon 15 Apr – Savages
They talk about those rare shows in history that spawn dozens of new bands as a result of the witnesses in attendance being so inspired by the spectacle before them. Tonight, that happened again. The four women in Savages brought to the U.S. a sense of urgency that lacks severely in its national climate of bands. Of course, there are exceptions - K-Holes from New York are equally on the same path of total annihilation of audiences perception. Few others come to mind, but that is beside the point. Savages fused together shards of post-punk…

Wed 6 Mar – RAW Festival 2013

The March 9th performance Grouper gave was stunning. She played several unreleased songs between passages of her ambient tape loops. The material, which I assume was all newer, were fantastic. One even included the first semblance of percussion (to my knowledge of her music) - though it was a single-repeating bass drum-like thunder that beat once every measure. The same song also featured her use of heavily compressed fuzz on her guitar, which was otherwise cloaked throughout the set in her standard wall of reverb-wash. The chapel room she played in was completely…

Air ‘Le Voyage Dans La Lune’ LP+DVD
A-Sun Amissa 'Desperate In Her Heavy Sleep' LP
Beach House 'Bloom' LP
The Big Pink 'Future This' LP
Black Marble “A Different Arrangement” LP
Black Rain ‘Now I'm Just A Number: Soundtracks 1994-95’ LP
Black to Comm ‘Earth’ LP
The Caretaker 'Patience (After Sebald)' LP
Chromatics 'Kill for Love' LP
Suzanne Ciani ‘Voices Of Packaged Souls’ LP
Crocodiles ‘Endless Flowers’ LP
Phillipe D'aram ‘Fascination (Original Score)’ 10"
Gareth Davis & Frances-Marie Uitti ‘Gramercy’ LP
Deathday 'Deathday' CS
Demdike Stare 'Elemental' 4xEP
Die Jungen 'At Breath's End' LP
Nils Frahm ‘The Bells’ LP
Grouper…

Atlas Sound “Parallax” LP
Belong “Common Era” LP
Bleached ”Think of You” 7"
Bleached "Searching Through The Past" 7"
Blouse “Into Black” 7"
Blouse "s/t" LP
Brain Idea "Cosmos Factory" LP
Cats Eyes “Cats Eyes” LP
Catwalk “One By Words” 7"
Chapel Club “Palace” LP
Colours “s/t” EP
Comet Gain "Howl of the Lonely Crowd" LP
Craft Spells “Idle Labor” LP
Crystal Stilts “In Love With Oblivion” LP
Crystal Stilts “Radiant Door” EP
Cut Copy "Zonoscope" LP
David Lynch "Crazy Clown Time" LP
Die Jungen “$” EP
Dirty Beaches “Badlands” LP
Dirty Beaches "Lone Runner" 7"
Dirty Beaches / Ela…

The list so far, in alphabetical order…

Abe Vigoda "Crush" LP
Akira Kosemura "Polaroid Piano" LP
Arcade Fire "The Suburbs" LP
The Art Museums "Rough Frame" LP
Autolux "Transit Transit" LP
Beach Fossils "Beach Fossils" LP
Beach House "Teen Dream" LP
Best Coast "Crazy For You" LP
The Black Ryder "Buy The Ticket, Take The Ride" LP
Candy Claws "Hidden Lands" LP
Canvas Kites "Wayside" Digital
Chapel Club "The Shore" EP
Crocodiles "Sleep Forever" LP (My Current "Album of The Year")
Crystal Castles "Crystal Castles" LP
Crystal Stilts "Shake The Shackles" 7"
Dangerous Boys Club "DBC" LP
The Dead Weather…