White Summer * Black Winter

you should buy "White Summer * Black Winter" now

Despite its characteristic and heart-wrenchingly lovely fuzzed-out riffs, Serpent Throne’s newest album, White Summer * Black Winter (Translation Loss, 2010) won’t let me get the phrase, “Damned if you do, damned if you don’t” out of my head.

It seems like an issue for [...]

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The Melvins are my favorite dandelion

how could this not remind you of King Buzzo's 'fro?

ELECTRIC FLOWER

Here are my top 10 favorite things about the Melvins show at Slim’s last night (Sunday, 9/19/10), besides the obvious:

creepy old hospital shit on Alcatraz

10.) The fans! No, not the headbanging hoard but the electric fans, [...]

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Don’t Get in the Way of the Riffs!

rock out

Serpent Throne wrapped around the legs of my chair, pulled it out from under me, and left me smiling with my ass on the floor, still trying not to inadvertently headbang in some random kitchen one boozy barbecued evening last summer (in a house, by the way, where Liz Buckingham, [...]

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“I Love My Friends” Apparel

Special thanks to the illustrious Briana from AZHIAZIAM, web extraordinaire and one-off digital-printing master, and the venerable ink-wizard Tim Lehi of SF’s coolest place to get a tat, Black Heart Tattoo, for his exceptional logo-ing skills. There’s nothing like a hazy afternoon with some red wine, blaring L7, a new hat, a digital camera, [...]

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