Posts By: Alyson Camus

Harper Simon Cover star

I don’t know if Weezer sent a song, but the Hurley connection did not pay this time.

breathy, engaging, and so sweet

An epic thing

The Robotanists, a LA band, has just recorded the entire ‘The King of Limbs’, yes the brand new Radiohead album!

I don’t remember exactly when it happened but the girl next to me began to repeat ‘I’m gonna die-I’m gonna die’

a fun-fuzzy-sunny sound ready to be consumed.

The whole thing looked a little bit jokingly cultish

any order number for the album was TKOL1-followed by 9 numbers

it is regrettable that ‘The King Of Limbs’ has almost the same acronym that King of Leon, because KOL represents exactly what Radiohead wants to avoid.

visibly a bunch of people completely in love with the 80s English scene

Conor is at his best when he stays into a poetic self-absorbed imagery

Children of the rich and famous

insane dark energy

Some Passionate Ninjas

delirous energy

intense and solid anxious heartbeats

even tough metal guys are not immunized against this kind of hardcore disease.

Barbra Streisand in shock

a much softer explosion

Why did Chelsea Wolfe perform wearing a black veil?

For $48 or $53 you can pre-order the very opulent ‘Newspaper album’ consisting of 2 clear 10″ vinyl records in a purpose-built record sleeve, a compact disc, many large sheets of artwork, 625 tiny pieces of artwork, a full-color piece of oxo-degradeable plastic to hold it all together, and a digital download compatible with all good digital media players

Tenebrous baritone

The Londonian Yuck came on stage with its fuzzy energy

‘Last time we played here, there were about 20 people, so we must be doing something right’

Shawn Rosenblatt performed complicated songs with heavily layered arrangements behind hyper-melodies full of hooks and soaring choruses

With lines like ‘Since my phone still ain’t ringing I’ll assume It still ain’t you’, sung on such a happy guitar, you would just think it is a humorous old-fashioned country song about uncomplicated things

The New Yorker has a pretty damaging article about Scientology, ‘The Apostate, Paul Haggis vs. the Church of Scientology’, by Lawrence Wright, which at last, denunciates the weird homophobia obsession and sadistic practices of the famous cult. Paul Haggis is a film director and screenwriter (‘Million Dollar Baby’, ‘Crash’) who went ‘all the way to the top’ in the strict hierarchy of the church, and recently resigned his scientology membership. Any church that pretends to cure your allergies, common cold, to give you heightened powers of intelligence and perception and to diagnose your disease with an E-meter qualifies for plain …

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