Image Separation! It took four hours and a few minutes. After that I watched 8 thirty-gallon garbage sacks ride away in a car never to return again. They were from a pile called “Donations.” The four hours and few minutes weren’t at all what I expected. I had spent them with a love...

Love is: all you need, a many-splendored thing, a dog from hell, all around, blind, a battlefield, on and on.  Love is also the reason why our friend Skitsnygg sent us his new two-minutes-and-nothing-more track, "Get Weird".  You see, Skitsnygg was having some issues with his significant other a w...

(photo by Jonathan Hung) Please please please stop sleeping on this band y'all.  The Splinters, a Berkeley-based all-girl group whose tunes we called "decidedly lo-fi near-two minute rollicks" are finally back with great news both about new tracks (9!) to come and dates with destiny next week. We s...

(photo by L. Posselt) Minimal Danish pop-lesbian duo Fagget Fairys have created an upstart single that will chart very very high in our minds for this year with "Feed The Horse", the first single from the group's upcoming debut LP of the same name.  It's an overt, dark, sensual song that you'll be ...

Twenty-year old knob-and-party tweaker Kid Cola just completed a 12-track mixtape for this new UK-based (Cola's home country too) website called Trouble Stereo, whose aim it is to combine all sorts of talent from a huge amount of genres and release playlist after playlist for their reader's appetite...

In all honesty, none of this really needs much inspirational descriptions from us here, because, well, just look at the four tracks that the dudes in Mustard Pimp have decided to remix.  Also, the original track from the duo, "Valium", is slithery and acid-tongued. (mp3)    Mustard Pimp - Valium...

Coming soon to Austin's Waterloo Park on the first day of spring, March 21, the dudes from F Yeah Fest bring the third annual edition of "Mess With Texas".  And holy hell is the line-up nine times ridiculous, including the likes of: The Black LipsKing Khan & The ShrinesThe ThermalsCursiveThao w...

The Promise of What’s Inside As a book publisher, I looked at hundreds of suggested book covers. Sometimes the most well-designed were the ones that got turned down immediately. They might have been beautiful, but they didn’t do the job. The cover’s job is to communicate what’...

Somewhere between the black of angular post-punk and the white of subtle, dreamy indie pop lies the grey area that the London band Your Twenties inhabit.  The band, just for your own bullet-pointed reference, features Gabriel Stebbing of Metronomy.  The guys also have a supreme literacy of their p...

The 12", entitled Play Music, will--after too much talk and not enough listening--be out next week, with a physical release for the CD set for April 7 (check in on Shelflife.com to get in on it earlier).  The digital tracks are already up on iTunes.  The three-piece American/Swedish band now livin...