Sweet sassy molasses, is it 2010? Already? What in the world happened to 2009? A better question: what the hell has taken me so long to get through this blasted pile of albums? What, indeed. Laziness, cable TV (specifically: Sterling Cooper and the Paddy’s gang), Wii-ing, bears, and a woefully short attention span all have something to do wi ... Continue Reading

In white impossible halfway house, goodbye, scratch long lost love. White mice, black rat dash and echo every hour in this white inhuman asylum of souls, holed up in heaven, without angels, undying, cold and numb. There’s a daydream. There’s high school. You and me. There we hang out, hang on, hang . . . . Our happy fix loves us more tha ... Continue Reading

I “WE R RILLY NT INTRSTED IN WHT NRMS THINK. I WAS UP THR ROFL IN MY MIND. TNSION = PAYNE. PAYNE= LYFE. LOL.” – WX YZ In retrospect, it seems obvious that the SiCore movement would have occurred, especially in the context of the various trends and concerns of the music underground of the first decade of the twenty-first century. Although it ... Continue Reading

It was just a fine day of bird songs that chime with the ray of sun, bush by bush-- the fresh leaves and prinklings from young spring. Perched by a path of dust and soil, I am just like the dust that is placed here. Once I shed my skin to the root of earth my arm is new, my blood is new, my flesh is new— my heart’s still the same. I ... Continue Reading

A fresh batch of tunes for a fresh year... Eddy Current Suppression Ring - s/t - Goner Records (www.goner-records.com) If you've got your ear to the ground of international garage punk/rock n roll then you're probably already well aware of this Australian band's seemingly spontaneous explosion into the ears and minds of garage/punk fans worl ... Continue Reading