WEST END MOTEL
West End Motel is a conglomerate of losers and poets and hobo-sexuals. Tom Cheshire met Brent Hinds in Atlanta on a corner under a bridge in 1993. They were panhandling and drinking cough syrup and songs just started spewing out of them. Songs were written on an acoustic guitar and a bucket for drums with […]
BODY/HEAD
OUTER GODS
UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA
JACKSON SCOTT
Animals’ Guide to Suicide: bOOk release feat Jenu
From the smoldering depths of Jenu Castillo's cauldron of sketchbooks, Fifth Planet Press is delighted to present a new graphic novel, Animals' Guide to Suicide, a comic tragedy as told thru the voices of an unlikely cast of characters. This introductory volume touches on alternative lifestyles, depression, class conflict, band and bar life, survival and […]
SAVAGES
SAVAGES is not trying to give you something you didn’t have already, it is calling within yourself something you buried ages ago, it is an attempt to reveal and reconnect your PHYSICAL and EMOTIONAL self and give you the urge to experience your life differently, your girlfriends, your husbands, your jobs, your erotic life and […]
SHUGGIE OTIS
Irony is a part of life. Though the music business may at times have nothing to do with “real” life, irony is a part of the biz. Just ask singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Shuggie Otis. Shuggie Otis, for those not familiar with him through David Byrne’s heroic disinterment of his 1974 album, Inspiration Information or through his authorship […]
RED BULL SOUND SELECT: REPTAR
Reptar Hailing from Athens, GA, Reptar began playing music in late 2008. Since then, the boisterous quartet has gained a reputation for their riotous, must-see live show. Paste Magazine declared, “These Southern-fried electronic Afro-poppers are known for the sticky dance riots of their live shows.” Reptar likes to first and foremost make people dance, and […]
COLLEEN GREEN
THE MEMORIES
JEL
He was but a young buck, wet behind the ears and not all that wise. But if Jeffery James Logan--Catholic-born Chicago son, one-time Chuck Berry enthusiast, junior high schooler- knew one thing, he knew that he needed to play the drums. If he knew another thing, it was that he wouldn't get to, no matter […]
CRYSTAL STILTS
WAREHOUSE
THURSTON MOORE’S CHELSEA LiGHT MOVING
MERCHANDIS
THE OH SEES
OBN IIIs
KING KHAN & THE SHRINES
HELL SHOVEL
BIG FREEDIA
DIP
MELT BANANA
RETOX
ACTIVE CHILD
For Pat Grossi of Active Child, the last two years have been nothing short of enriching. Musically, Pat has worked within and appropriated a number of styles into his sound, from his early days singing with that heavenly voice as a choir boy to his more recent forays into laptop-assisted indie-pop made in his bedroom, […]
OF MONTREAL
LITTLE TYBEE
SHANNON & THE CLAMS
NIGHT BEATS
[adult swim] Presents Eric Andre Show Live!
On the heels of the wildly-popular television debut of Adult Swim's The Eric Andre Show, the alternative-variety show takes its DIY brand of late night entertainment and punk-rock comedy live on the road. Just like on TV, the spontaneous performances will include special guests, real and fake celebrity appearances, and plenty of spilled milk. No […]
CHVRCHES
Chvrches (pronounced as "churches" and sometimes stylized as CHVRCHES) are a Scottish electropop band from Glasgow, formed in 2011. The group consists of Lauren Mayberry (main vocals, occasionally synthesizers), Iain Cook (synthesizers, vocals), and Martin Doherty (synthesizers, vocals). Chvrches came fifth on the BBC's Sound of 2013 list of the most promising new music talent. […]