Swervedriver

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Remember that time when you invited the girls over for your birthday and you stayed up too late drinking Capri Sun and eating Round Table pizza and then, like, Mindy locked herself in the bathroom and started crying because she said Repo Man was scary (but really she just had never been away from ho ... More >>

Shoegaze dimmed My Bloody Valentine's brilliance

Remember that time when you invited the girls over for your birthday and you stayed up too late drinking Capri Sun and eating Round Table pizza and then, like, Mindy locked herself in the bathroom and started crying because she said Repo Man was scary (but really she just had never been away from ho ... More >>

Swervedriver returns from shoegazer history

Remember that time when you invited the girls over for your birthday and you stayed up too late drinking Capri Sun and eating Round Table pizza and then, like, Mindy locked herself in the bathroom and started crying because she said Repo Man was scary (but really she just had never been away from ho ... More >>

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Singing a New Tune, What's in a Name?, Back in Business, and Spin Control

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Singing a New Tune, What's in a Name?, Back in Business, and Spin Control

DOM, Heavy Hawaii, Melted Toys Have 'Em Peeling it off at Rickshaw Stop

Romana MachadoDOM​ DOM, Heavy Hawaii, Melted ToysMarch 30, 2011@ Rickshaw StopBetter than: The next thing Simon Cowell squeals over.Whatever the zinc-eared Mr. Cowell would make of last night's triple bill at the Rickshaw Stop must thankfully remain unknowable. It's a cinch you'll never see this k ... More >>

The Top 50 Songs To Get High To

We'd bet Barry O. bumped some of these back in the day...​ As you might imagine, combing back numbers of my Listen to This While High column and my own vast library for a reasonable stab at the Fifty Stoniest Songs Ever is a labor and hashish intensive experience. Preliminary fossickings unear ... More >>

Stoned Listening: Coco Beware, by Caveman

​ Listen to this while high: Caveman's Coco Beware.​Behind the buzz: Caveman is a NYC quintet that routinely receives the kind of volunteer love a lot of publicists would gladly eat their own lips to get. Such lashings of bloggerly acclaim lead to wonder if this debut album is one of those incip ... More >>

Get Ungratefully Dead (and Really Stoned) with the Cult of Dom Keller

​ Listen to this while high: The Cult of Dom Keller's EP3 ​ Behind the buzz: This is yet another case of a publicist lobbing the right series of adjectives over my email transom. Words like "acid-dripping" and "lysergic" promise much for this third-in-a-series EP, as does the band havin ... More >>