“It’s nice not to have the dynamic of one of us being the frontman.”
By Elzee
“I’d never been to a baseball game, and it blew my freakin’ mind.”
By Tobias Kahn
“We probably should have worn more black.”
By R. Little
[Various Theaters; Chicago, IL]
By Hatchet
“When you deceive someone who trusts you, or take the money not due to you, or shut the gas-chamber door, it’s the same thing. YOU did it.”
By Mangoon
“The Brainwaves Festival is likely to be my last THBC experiment for some time, and should not be missed if at all possible.”
“The motherfucking idea of space and time has fallen apart.”
By David Harris
“We really wanted the ear to focus on the song itself and less on part, part, part, part, part, part, part.”
By John Ruscher
Dock Boggs, Blues Banjo, and Virginia Hills
By Chizzly St. Claw
“I’ll put my two cents in, but I’m perfectly fine if they get thrown right back.”
“The idea of being aware of culture means that we’re not so full of ourselves that we think we’re gonna define it or change it.”
By M. Hugh Steeply
“Mogwai unplugged would be fucking horrendous. Just the thought of Martin hitting bongos.”
Crate-digging for obscure gems to reissue
By Shuggypop
“You just kind of crap it out all over.”
By Hipster
“It seems amazing that you could spend so much time on material that still sounds so foreign.”
By Leigh Kamping-Carder
200 guitarists and 16 bassists rehearsing for a massive concert that was never even performed
By Doug Schrashun
“I don’t want to be the person sitting up in the tower just making all the music by myself.”
“I’ve actually come to resent the glockenspiel quite a bit.”
“If you gotta go with a company, I’m happy to go with guys that I’m friends with.”
By Larry Fitzmaurice
“Knowing that that there’s radio play now and that a larger audience is hearing it means that I feel responsible for what I put out there.”
How to Dress Well announces new album Total Loss, nervously anticipates Tim Gunn’s evaluation
Mastodon head to Europe for Festival of the Mastodon, discover that no such thing exists, play at other festivals instead
Yeasayer announce new album; text your punchlines to this headline to TMT-ZINE-5-24!
The Flaming Lips play eight shows in one day??!!!!??!!!! What a buncha weirdos!!!!!!!!
Mount Eerie will haunt the Pacific Northwest more than usual in June
NGUZUNGUZU weaponize bass this summer with Warm Pulse EP on Hippos in Tanks
RIAA seeks $75 trillion in LimeWire copyright case, as if their plot for world domination was ever in question
Release the Bats label ends after 10 years, and it is likely your fault
Constellation readies second Musique Fragile box set: Pacha, Kanada 70, and Tony “Dr. Drone Ph.D” Conrad
Library of Congress rips 25 new entries to the National Recording Registry… but at what BIT-RATE?!?
Ain’t no party like a dabke party: Mark Gergis’ Sham Palace releases Dabke: Sounds of the Syrian Houran comp
Eternal Summers announce Correct Behavior LP for summer release, go on summer tour, cryogenically freeze themselves from September to June
