Nicole Dollanganger x GvsB takeover: Exalt
Exalt has been consistently releasing absolutely incredible work and (as far as I’m concerned) have set a whole new bar when it comes to live performance. Most recently...
View ArticleNicole Dollanganger x GvsB takeover: Cranes
My introduction to Cranes came through this disturbing scene of Kiefer Sutherland playing Robert Doob in the 1996 movie Eye for an Eye. It’s one of my favourite musically driven scenes ever. — Nicole...
View ArticleNicole Dollanganger x GvsB takeover: Aeon Fux
Everything about Aeon Fux is beautiful, hypnotizing and deadly. I can only think to describe her music by saying that it sounds how I imagine the apocalypse would sound, which is not to say it...
View ArticleNicole Dollanganger x GvsB takeover: PJ Harvey – The Devil (Basement...
Last summer at Coney Island I watched a sideshow performer named The Patchwork Girl perform a fire dance to this PJ Harvey song and lost my fucking mind. It eventually led me to this live performance...
View ArticleNicole Dollanganger x GvsB takeover: Alex G – Be Kind
Alex G is probably one of the most prolific songwriters out there currently. As this song was never officially released, I thought it was worth putting some light back on, because I think it’s the...
View ArticleNicole Dollanganger x GvsB takeover: Face Breaker – <i>And Every Day...
Paul Kwiatkowski’s photo-book and memoir “And Every Day Was Overcast” was an immediate favourite for me. Shortly after its release, an LP soundtrack...
View ArticleNicole Dollanganger x GvsB takeover: Safe To Say – Summer Sickness
Safe to Say recently put out their breathtaking EP Hiding Games. It really captures the balance of light/dark, heavy/soft, that vocalist and guitarist Brad Garcia has always embodied in all of his...
View ArticleNicole Dollanganger x GvsB takeover: Skingraft
Check out this amazing track off a split Toronto hardcore band Skingraft put out with Erebos. Their side of the split was recorded at Scatter Brain Sound, the studio owned and run by Matt Tomasi,...
View Articlegorilla vs. bear’s SONGS OF 2018
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View ArticleSZA takeover: just like water
This woman has been my neighbor my whole life and she never knew it. She bought me ice cream once at baskin robins in my towns village. i can't tell you what she meant to me growing up... She was...
View ArticleLower Dens takeover: William Eggleston and Nan Goldin
These photographers don’t work together, that I know of, but they share a singular ability. Eggleston photographs the minutiae and monotony of our lives in startling color. Goldin...
View ArticleLower Dens takeover: Richard Thompson
Richard Thompson is a remarkably fluid guitar player. His rhythm playing sneaks in lots of passing lines and his solos often contain material from a variety of idioms without sounding forced. His tones...
View ArticleLower Dens takeover: David Bowie live at Nassau coliseum (1976)
The light of Bowie's stardom often obscures the names of his formidable side people. In this celebrated live show (listen to the full show here) it is impossible to ignore the energy and inventiveness...
View ArticleLower Dens takeover: Ernest Becker – Escape From Evil
We're all running from something, which Becker identifies as death without meaning or legacy. That the source of so much of our culture ought to lie in fear is both sad and eminently forgivable....
View ArticleLower Dens takeover: David Wojnarowicz
Along with people like Kathy Acker and Robert Mapplethorpe, David Wojnarowicz worked to bring gay culture out of its campy, self-mocking state and turn it into something that could stand beside as...
View ArticleLower Dens takeover: A Different Kind of Tension
This album has really informed my playing and thinking about music recently, specifically the way they take a simple idea and push it and push it until it sort of breaks into something new. I feel...
View ArticleLower Dens takeover: George W S Trow – Within the Context of No Context
Basically the most important piece of prophecy since Revelations. Nobody has ever thought so deeply and so comprehensively about American civilization, nor written the product of that thinking with...
View ArticleTei Shi x Gorilla vs. Bear takeover: I Want To Break Free
To start off on a crazy amazing note, I’m sharing this video. Because I love Queen, Freddie Mercury is one of my all time favorite humans/talents/performers. We need more people...
View ArticleTei Shi x Gorilla vs. Bear takeover: The Danger Boys
The Danger Boys is Jack McNutt and Julian Master. They are ridiculous and amazing. I got to know of them because they created an instagram page called dead animals I killed and started trolling me hard...
View ArticleTei Shi x Gorilla vs. Bear takeover: Pete Drake – Forever
Pete Drake was a really well known pedal steel guitar player in Nashville in the 60s, He played on some of the biggest songs/for the biggest artists ever. But he also came up with the idea of basically...
View ArticleTei Shi x Gorilla vs. Bear takeover: Show Me the Body
Show Me The Body is really fucking weird and cool. I don’t know what else to say about them. They’re really young, smart New York punkies (not to categorize them...
View ArticleTei Shi x Gorilla vs. Bear takeover: Nick Hakim
Nick Hakim is truly great and you should check out his music. It’s smooth and soulful and created with real care and emotion. And his voice is out of this world. Nick and I met...
View ArticleTei Shi x Gorilla vs. Bear takeover: LP – Tokyo Sunrise
There’s nothing cooler to me than someone who has real chops at whatever it is they do. Beyond all cool factor in music, and all that, there is nothing sweeter than an insane...
View ArticleTei Shi x Gorilla vs. Bear takeover: Sean Nicholas Savage – The Rat
I think I might be one of Sean’s biggest fans. I think he is so great in such an indescribable way. I played a show with him in Montreal last year and that was my first time seeing...
View ArticleTei Shi x Gorilla vs. Bear takeover: Mecano
Mecano was a huge pop band from Spain during the 80s and early 90s. They were a really cool, ahead of their time band and I think some of their music still sounds pretty relevant today. I was exposed...
View Articlerunning best songs of 2015 list
01 GRIMES - REALiTi 02 METRO THUGGIN - Free Gucci 03 JAMIE XX - Loud Places 04 CHROMATICS - In Films 05 LEON BRIDGES - River 06 PANDA BEAR - Tropic of Cancer 07 LOWER DENS - Your Heart Still Beating 08...
View Articlestream/download Wilco’s free new album <i>Star Wars</i>
Listen to Wilco's very refreshing, pleasant surprise of a new album Star Wars, which sounds to us like it bears some very heavy White Denim influence in its looseness and nervy restlessness (which...
View ArticleNicole Dollanganger x GvsB takeover: Acid†Priest
If you’re not familiar with Acid†Priest, I’d recommend starting with Vacation Wasteland, the single off their EP Outta Control. Their drummer Matt recently...
View ArticleNicole Dollanganger x GvsB takeover: Coma Cinema
My favourite live performance of all time. All musical projects that Mat is part of have always found a way to be touching and funny and sometimes bizarre at the same time. Only is one of my favourites...
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