Titus Andronicus
The Early Bird: Top New Recorded Releases 11-18-22 – 11-24-22 Reviewed
takes full advantage of Joel’s rhyming schemes
The Earliest Bird: Top New Recorded Release, Titus Andronicus’s “The Will To Live”Reviewed
not all of it is for everyone
The Earliest Bird: Top New Recorded Release 7-22-22 – 7-28-22. Titus Andronicus’s “We’re Coming Back” and “(I’m) Screwed” Reviewed
the greatest rock band of the 21st Century
Biding Our Time: Thanksgiving 2021
an excellent retort to naysayers
Brief Encounters: New Albums 10-22-21 – 10-28-22 Reviewed
one of the greatest albums of all time
The Weekend That Changed My Life: Paul Simon, Titus Andronicus, Los Campesinos In 2009
an exceptional weekend
All Concerts In Order Of Preference For 2019
Imagine “Avatar” as a plant based human mash up
Best Of 2019: All Concerts In Order Of Preference Through November 30th, 2019
the greatest rock and roll band in the world
Titus Andronicus At Bowery Ballroom, Saturday, November 23rd, 2019, Reviewed
not what they were but they were what they are
Another Day, Another Setlist: Titus Andronicus And FKA Twigs
enough for Patrick to blow the house down
L.A. Burning West Coast Concert Picks, September 23rd To 29th
On Saturday, Moby will play at Jail Guitar Doors: Rock Out 5!
Sneak Peaks: Upcoming Album Releases 6-21-19 – 6-27-19
might sprinkle some magic on him
rock nyc’s Tenth Year Anniversary Celebration: And Away we go…
concert of the year? Titus Andronicus and Los Campesinos at Bowery Ballroom on February 15th—
In Tribute To The Late Pete Shelley We Repost: The Buzzcocks And Titus Andronicus At Webster Hall, Saturday, September 6th, 2014 Reviewed
always the third in the class but my secret favorite
The Early Bird: Top New Releases 10-26-18 – 11-1-18 Reviewed
ends sixteen minutes later with Patrick leaving his PO Box address
L.A. BURNING, WEST COAST CONCERT PICKS, MARCH 26TH TO APRIL 1ST
Pussy Riot have 3 intimate shows in a row at the Echo
Sneak Peaks: Upcoming ALbum Releases 3-2-18 – 3-8-18
I split on the first two singles and I have zero idea what to expect.
Not With The Band: Taking Or Not Taking Pictures At Concerts
I was able to take tons of pictures with a professional camera at Joshua Homme’s feet.
Titus Andronicus On Tour (Plus New Live Album)
“ROCKERS ON THE ROAD”
Oldies But Goldies: Titus Andronicus At The Whitney In 2009
I met Patrick soon after I wrote this, he was really nice and told me how he much he had enjoyed the review
ABC Best of the Year: Queens Of The Stone Age, TV On The Radio, Sleater Kinney, Titus Andronicus
I have decided to look back at this past year in alphabetic order,…
When Was The Last Time Music Blew Your Mind Away?
When was the last time I was left speechless after a show? When was the last time I said it was mind blowing? I am not sure…
Baked, Spider Bags, Titus Andronicus At The Roxy, Saturday September 26th 2015 Review
If the new tune ‘Stranded’ has almost classic rock riffs, everything was played with dense assaults and a punk spirit, Stickles’ grand gestures and pissed-off attitude, and some impressive stage moves, they were all restless, bringing the show to epic heights with successive explosions and chaotic nonsense….
Titus Andronicus At Permanent Records, Saturday September 26th 2015 Review
Wearing his signature pink LA Anarchy shirt, the Titus Andronicus frontman is a real entertainer, building an anarchic set, doing whatever he wants and what the crowd wants, constantly joking around, while giving us the most powerful monologue rant ever about love and making yourself vulnerable. ‘So let’s talk about love, although it must be a love dream sequence, because I don’t really love anyone right now’, he told us before ‘Lonely Boy’.
The Best of 2015: Albums Through July 31st, 2015
The Most Lamentable Tragedy Of – Titus Andronicus – Whatever doubts you may have about this 29 song rock opera song cycle detailing the ebb and flow of manic depression, if only for its sheer audacity you will hear nothing more important this year. Plus, cmon, what price “Dimed Out”? It dimes out and then some.
Titus Andronicus’ “The Most Lamentable Tragedy” Reviewed
It is a real achievement, an artistic highlight of the 2010s. It repays close attention with strange insights. Really, it is the musical “Pale Fire” -an extended mind game but with a steely and real purpose behind it. +@ are playing with you but for a real reason. I mean, I love it. It’s fun.
The Most Lamentable Review Of The New Titus Andronicus Album Ends Here
“I like people who dream or talk to themselves interminably; I like them, for they are doubles. They are here and elsewhere.” – Albert Camus
The Most Lamentable Review Of The New Titus Andronicus Album Continued
Auld Lang Syne – Performed by Eric Harm, Matt Miller, Carrie-Anne Murphy, Julian Veronesi (vocals) and Patrick Stickles (ostrich guitar and MXR Pitch Transposer) and the ringing in the new year sounds like a death knell
Titus Andronicus’ Most Lamentable Review: Into The Silence And Beyond
Lennon and Ono put silence to even better use than all of the above on their best experimental album, Unfinished Music No. 2: Life With the Lions. The track before was the heartbeat of their baby in the last five minutes before Ono miscarried John Lennon Ono II at Queen Charlotte’s Hospital in London. What followed was two minutes of silence
The Most Lamentable Tragedy Of Titus Andronicus Review Continued
On we go,and though we are only on the fourth song, it sure feels like there is a lot of throat clearing going on. I guess if you’re going deep into the consciousness of a manic depressive you might as well keep into on the down low
Taking On Titus Andronicus’ Epic Rock Opera Slowly
“Patrick knows exactly what he wants. He’ll have a spoken word piece to be edited in down to the second and he tells me exactly what it wants it to sound like. When XL (the British indie) came around to make suggestions he completely ignored them.”
Titus Andronicus “The Most Lamentable”: Stream It Here. Also, A First Opinion
It sounds great but it sounds too much, it overloads you and not in a great way (though certainly in a good way). But I may be wrong, the move between the two parts of the album, from “More Perfect Unions” extended instrumental coda to “Sun Salutations” a capella and then the classic rock thump of “(S)HE SAID/(S)HE SAID” is kinda major stuff… Nobody else can do it.
The Best of 2015: rock nyc Best Songs In Order And Reviewed Through June 30th, 2015
Fatal Flaw – Titus Andronicus – As we get closer to the release of The Most Lamentable Tragedy, it becomes clear there is a whole lot of baggage to go along with Patrick Stickles epic disaster disaster, sort of “Inside Outside” for solipsistic egomaniacs. And with songs as great as this, a flat out masterpiece and one of his greatest Stickles’ songs of all time, I could care less.
Titus Andronicus Releases ‘The Magic Morning’, A Short Film Featuring Six Songs!
‘WATCH “Our Hero” awake to a world of wonder! GASP at the shocking secret of “The Lookalike!” MARVEL at the mysterious transformative powers of the Vernal Equinox! DANCE to those which are already being called Titus Andronicus’s Greatest Hits Yet!” UNDERSTAND the underlying themes and motifs that elevate TMLT far beyond the petty constraints of a mere “rock album” and into the realm of that which the German philosopher K. F. E. Trahndorff first called, in 1827, Gesamtkunstwerk (“total art”—look it up)!!!’
The Best Of 2015: Songs Through June 30th, 2015
Unlike most months you can think of, June belonged to two songs, Dawes “All Your Favorite Bands” and Titus Andronicus’ “Fatal Flaw”. The former is easily their best song, a genius benediction to a former love and the latter was so good it made the brilliant “Dimed Out” sound like an also ran. If these don’t end up in the top five singles of the year, I assure they will be in the top ten.
rock nyc Top 10 Songs, Week Of June 8th, 2015
The James Taylor song, that may be really major, same with most of the others, including the not remotely easy going AraabMuzik even though he sounds like it. But when the self-loathing Patrick Stickles follows a typical piece of self immolation “Let me show you my fatal flaw” he asks but pays it off with “it’s the best thing you never saw.” While Dawes benediction saves cliches like ” I hope your brother’s El Camino runs forever” with “and may all your favorite bands stay together. A line so great it has become an instantaneous cliche.
rock nyc Top 10 Week Of June 1st, 2015
Playing catch up after three days of music and music and music, this is very late but it is nevertoolte for a song as great as “Fatal Flaw” -it is the sort of song that makes some of Titus fanatics. nd as for “All Of Your favorite bands”? Reminds you how crappy their other songs are.
Titus Andronicus Drops Another Song Off Their Rock Opera (“Fatal Flaw”)
loved the first single “Dimed Out” and this could actually be better, the organ solo is riveting and thrilling at the punch line a real beauty, “let me show you my fatal flaw, it’s the best thing you ever saw” Patrick Stickles sings on the sort of messed up come on that greats seem to drop effortlessly, “waiting on some drug deal all day…” he claims.
The Best Of 2015: Songs Through May 31st, 2015
There are at least four songs here that sound major to me, Jason Isbell and Titus Andronicus at the top of the list and A$AP Rocky and ZZ Ward not far behind, so if this doesn’t feel like big time pop moment month, it isn’t because of the best, it is because of everything else. Two of my favorite songs this year, by Daytripper and Charlie Funk, aint even out yet. For Daytripper, God knows when she’ll get around to it
Patrick Stickles Of Titus Andronicus: Liquor Distributor
For one thing, as The Monitor producer Kevin McMahon, once told me, Stickles makes every decision about the sound: it will be his new testament. For another thing, the new single, “Dimed Out” is great, a melodic anthem, a myth of Patrick specialty, as Alyson noted a couple of days. It doesn’t feel like a move forward, but if it is treading water, it is standing on the shoulders of giant songs and maintaining its balance
Oldies But Goldies: Titus Andronicus Talks To rock nyc In 2010
In the beginning of March, 2010, I sat down with Titus Andronicus leader Patrick Stickles for would be my only interview with the indie rock superstar. One more than I’ve had with Kurt Vile, of course, so there is that. I was never very happy with the resulting story, and yes, absolutely blame me.
Titus Andronicus Only Like It When It’s Dimed Out
‘Dimed Out’ is a punch in your face, a punk explosion that will make you either jump of joy till you reach the moon, or climb the Mount Everest while yelling at the top of your lungs – and it’s gonna be difficult when the oxygen becomes rare…but when I hear such a song everything becomes possible