And it has happened. They're recording it with J. fucking Robbins. Holy shit. Via the A.V. Club: The A.V. Club has learned that Thorns Of Life, the new outfit featuring guitarist-vocalist Blake Schwarzenbach of Jawbreaker and Jets To Brazil fame, is currently recording its debut album with J. Robbin...

Maybe you're frustrated about a crumbling (or crumbled) relationship. Maybe you're tired of being broke and/or unemployed. After all, who isn't these days? Or perhaps you're pissed at stupid scientists who invent shit like the atomic bomb and only afterwards do they realize the magnitude of what the...

I think the excitement is due partly because I loved Disney-related shit when I was growing up (I'm a girl, I liked princesses, I'm sorry), and partly because I'm a fan of most of the bands playing tonight. For example, I cannot wait to see what Wild Orchid Children do with their choices. And now, a...

Despite the sunny, perfectly chilly weather, I’m listening to some of the saddest music I can find today. A friend of mine recently started a monthly mix tape club and the first theme is “Sad Bastard: Songs To Listen to While Crying Into Your Beer.” At first, the bad-ass straight-e...

It's been a hectic day and week and weekend and in the midst of it all I forgot to let everyone know that SLOG HAPPY IS THIS THURSDAY! You knew that already, though, right? Because it's always the second Thursday of the month. This month's Slog Happy is a very special Slog Happy—Miss Scary Tyl...

Photo by Ruby Aldridge The Bombs, Jaguar Paw (Funhouse) The Bombs seem like another one of those well-connected L.A. bands with excellent bone structure and more impressive networking skills than musical ones; MTV aired "Revolution/Revelation" on Paris Hilton's My New BFF, even though the trio have ...

Fujiya & Miyagi - "Sore Thumb" Fujiya & Miyagi, Pop Levi British band Fujiya & Miyagi latched on to the strange idea of sounding like a motorik-groove-lovin' Kraut-rock group circa 1970—Neu! or Can, say—fronted by a soft-spoken Japanese vocalist. The result is music of pell-mell propulsi...

Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band and Say Hi both celebrate new records tonight at Neumo's. Eric Grandy interviewed Say Hi's Eric Elbogen about how his band morphed from a vampire-obsessed cutesy act from Brooklyn to a more mature and memorable Seattle pop act: "There will always be a little playfulness i...

It was obvious from the beginning that Sean were going to take last night's Grudge Rock game. Their strategy was to "pass" every round on to Fortress of Victory—when FoV couldn't come up with all the answers in the Family Feud-style surveys, all Sean had to do was guess one correct answer and ...

Japanther play the Funhouse tonight! Tacocat, Mosquito Bandito, and Problems are also on the bill. Eric Grandy reviewed their new album in this week's paper: Have I gotten old, or is it just Japanther? For a while there in the early '00s, when the Brooklyn bass and drums duo were touring relentlessl...