Yesterday, Christopher Reimer, guitarist for Calgary indie band Women, died in his sleep. The cause of death has not yet been reported. He was 26 years old. Reimer's sister, Nikki Reimer, has created a memorial website in his honor.
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No CommentsLA post-hardcore power trio Philm — comprised of Slayer's Dave Lombardo, War's Pancho Tomaselli, and Civil Defiance's Gerry Nestler — has announced a May 15 release date for its debut album, Harmonic, on Ipecac. Right now, the band is only slated to play at San Diego's Ruby Room on April 28, but
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No CommentsDirty Three: Toward the Low Sun (Drag City, 2/28/12) Dirty Three: "Rising Below" It’s been seven years since Aussie post-rockers Dirty Three have released an album. That’s not to say the band members have been lying low: residing in Melbourne, guitarist Mick Turner has kept himself busy with t
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No CommentsJason Viola: Herman the Manatee (Manatee Power, 1/25/12) Jason Viola’s comics might look simple at first. Herman the Manatee, Rabbit Shadows, and Who is Amy Amoeba? sound like kids' stuff. Viola’s comics use the tropes of the Sunday paper strip (animal characters, big bug eyes, cartoonish propor
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No CommentsBrooklyn trio Violens has announced the release of its next album, True, out May 15, 2012 via Slumberland Records. Though the band continues to blend '60s guitars, synth pop, and entrancing vocal harmonies, True takes a decidedly more toned-down approach. The first single off the album, "Unfolding B
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No CommentsFrom his upcoming album, due later this year. Grab the mp3 at Willy’s Facebook page.
02.22.2012| Pop Culture | admin
No CommentsMaybe someone more in tune with themselves than I am can find some kind of hidden meaning in Archaia’s Tale of Sand, an adaptation of an unproduced screenplay by Jim Henson and Jerry Juhl. After writing a couple of drafts of Tale of Sand in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the ambitious project was
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No CommentsYou are attending a concert and yell “Freebird.” How ironic are you being?Level 0 The band you are seeing is Lynyrd Skynyrd or a Lynyrd Skynyrd tribute act. You actually want the band to play “Freebird” and would be delighted if they did. You are employing no irony and you ha
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No CommentsWelcome to the 1970s, AM Gold style! And what better way to kick off a new musical decade than to sharpen our collective wit and come up with all the awful Bread jokes we can?(Spotify users, you can subscribe to our Best of AM Gold playlist, which is updated regularly.) #1: Diana Ross, “Ain&
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No CommentsFat Boy. That can’t have been an easy moniker for Billy Stewart to accept. Oh sure, he probably smiled when people called him that, and he even recorded a song called “Fat Boy,” but it still had to hurt somewhere deep inside each time he heard himself referred to that way.Stewart w
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