February 2008
29 posts
Spotlight: Colin Stetson | Frantic jazz evocative, but dangerous to public
New History Warfare, Vol. 1 Releases March 4 on Aagoo Records Let's get one thing straight: it's not everyday one runs into music like this — nor should it be. Colin Stetson performs a frantic, solitary-instrument jazz on the bass clarinet…
Review: A Faulty Chromosome — As An Ex-Anorexic's Six Sicks Exit, ...
Released Feb. 19, 2008; self-released. A Faulty Chromosome, previously the subject of a Feb. 19 MusicGeek.org spotlight, is an unruly shoegaze group; while they do pull from a variety of influences — and it's evident, it's not just some…
Music Geek #9: Pre-mature expectation of spring cues mixtape musings
As winter slowly phases out of season here in southern Utah, I’m drawn to the shocking realization that spring will soon be taking its place (as it does every year.) This, I suppose, isn’t actually shocking, but I am quite excited. What…
Spotlight: MEN
JD Samson and Johanna Fateman of Le Tigre fame are making music under another name: MEN. Funny, I thought only one was a man. All bad joking aside, MEN produce a distinctive, fun electronic sound. "Make It Reverse" and "Shake Off," both…
Spotlight: Apillow | Ambience, minimalism make mark in small-run release
Let's get one thing straight: I like ambient, I like shoegaze, and boy, do I like post-rock. That said, you may have found many of the posts here to be of such a nature. What can I say? At any rate, today's spotlight focuses on Apillow, a…
Review: Palmer's Medic - In a House, Surrounded
Palmer's Medic, an electronic recording project of a certain Seth David-Andrew Hubbard from southern Utah — Cedar City, Utah, to be precise about things — produces young, fresh music vaguely encapsulatable under genre titles of ambient…
Spotlight: A Faulty Chromosome
A Faulty Chromosome produces fairly engaging music that, while pulling from a variety of influences, maintains a fairly distinct shoegaze tone. At times a little offsetting, the band doesn't "pull any punches," per se, with their usage of…
Spotlight: Cryv | Japanese shoegaze, huh.
It's not often I come across something so compelling as this: Cryv is a Japanese shoegaze and electroclash group — they're twin brothers — that, well, are far from bad. Yes, that's really just a roundabout way of calling this band good,…