Well here’s a nice surprise. The Velvet Underground are reissuing their S/T debut, and including a 1969 live performance from San Francisco’s The Matrix club. And while the performance has been floating around for years, the recording has been super cleaned up. This is one of the best sounding live VU sets I’ve ever heard.
The new Grouper album is a serious AOTY contender.
Oh, did Owen Ashworth just get all wistful? A surprise demo release from Advance Base.
…performed live for Echo Locale. Is this what always goes on inside womens’ rooms?
Video for “Your Love is Killing Me”, a highlight off of van Etten’s AOTY contender Are We There.
Happy Halloween, everybody! I’ll let Otis take it from here…
A few years ago, I went pretty deep into a Chilean psych rabbit hole, and now I’m starting to rediscover some of the music that came out of my short infatuation. I can barely find any info on The Psychedelic Schafferson Jetplane, but I’m glad I stumbled upon their self titled (and possibly only?) LP somehow.
Truth be told, I’m not entirely certain why Pains… always strikes a chord with me. There’s a ton of bands making arty, slightly shoegazey indie rock, but something about their guitar tones and vocals always hits a nice, fuzzy, warm spot in my brain. “Kelly” is one of the finest examples of what they do well.