All posts tagged Music

Toys & Tiny Instruments: what is going on?

Toys and Tiny Instru­ments, a sham­bling good­time rock band from Brooklyn, NY, are exactly as they sound. They play their sets with toys and tiny instru­ments. There is a whole mess of them – like six or eight humans are onstage when the Toys play – but they pull it off since their instru­ments are […]

Chris Knox benefit show, Jeff Mangum, Yo La Tengo etc

Last year, New Zealand musi­cian Chris Knox (of Tall Dwarfs fame) suf­fered a series of debil­i­tating strokes. You have doubt­less heard about the ben­efit album, which fea­tures an wide cat­a­logue of artists like Will Oldham, Jay Reatard, and Girl­pants favorites the Moun­tain Goats, all cov­ering songs from Knox’s impres­sive back cat­a­logue. When Pitch­fork announced there […]

Drunk Girls by LCD Soundsystem: Another Song about Girls

The new, emi­nently holler­able track “Drunk Girls,” LCD Soundsystem feels kinda retro to me — not vin­tage, but def­i­nitely a throw­back to 90s Brit pop. The yells around the chorus con­sist of just “drunk girls” and “drunk boys”, and to be honest, to me it not unpleas­antly recalls some­thing like a mashup of “Park­life” and […]