Vee Hua 華婷婷Friday, June 17th, 2011 Doors 8:00pm, Show 8:30pm @ Shea Stadium, Brooklyn (20 Meadow St.) $12.00 All AgesRED FACEBOOK EVENT: Through a serendipitous string of events, Pacific Northwest-based Redefine Magazine was invited to curate an official...
When you attend as many rock shows as I do, the criteria for an “excellent” show changes. A band playing their instruments well is no longer enough. For me, an excellent show is now defined as one that inspires writing and encourages new...
Colourful Environments contains over an hour of West African music, and its title speaks to the mix’s inclusion of everything from boogie funk jamming to psychedelic rock noodling.
Thad McKrakenYou know, I’ve been sort of conflicted about the multiple directions metal has gone as of late — none of which involve much of a focus on basic songcraft. It’s probably just because I came of age back in the early ’90s. Back...
Jesse C. DiennerBorn With Stripes is a chameleon of an album. It starts off with a catchy, pop — “accessible indie,” as I like to call it — number, entitled “We Don’t Know Who We Are.” This album has so many varied styles...
With extreme macro shots of eyes, mouths, and other indistinguishable slimy body parts, this video for “Beard” leaves one scratching one’s head just as Colourmusic’s style of indie psych-sludge mash-up leaves you scratching...
I think my brain waves are rippling in time with the amorphous pustules and static globs of this video. Really, though, I can’t figure out why this is so mesmerizing… there is really nothing incredibly complicated about it, but the...