Summer festival season is upon us. In a year with over a dozen new festivals, many of us will be packing up our bags, SPF, tents, coolers, etc. to catch some of our favorite acts across the world in settings sometimes too close for comfort. Coachella heats up (literally) festival season tomorrow and [...]
Finally! Mike McGonigal’s 33 1/3 on My Bloody Valentine’s Loveless was published on January 10th and ready to be shipped. I just ordered my copy this morning. According to Under The Radar, the pocket-sized book provides “in-depth information on recording sessions and interviews conducted for the book with band leader Kevin Shields [...]
I don’t know if any of you fellow bloggers out there have this problem, but I’ve been getting attacked with spam all freaking week. More now than ever. I’ve had at least 35+ comments on a single post each day and they’re all spam. I was really starting to get annoyed by [...]
I recently finished reading Touching From A Distance, Deborah Curtis’ in-depth biographical account of her husband’s life. I bought the book hoping to better understand what type of person Ian Curtis really was, but it fell short of giving me the full picture of his life. The chilling fact that the book made [...]
You may have noticed at some point while reading this blog that some of the CU crew enjoy referring to shows as “concerts.” This is something that really irks the hell out of Nghia and prompted him to send out an email to all of us to refrain from using the word “concert.” [...]
I had a chance to sit down with Sybris‘ bassist Shawn Podgurski and vocalist/guitarist Angela Mullenhour (pictured) for a Splendid Magazine interview on November 4TH after their show at Mercury Lounge. The interview is now up on Splendid, it’s extremely long (Splendid requirements), so when you have some spare time read the full [...]
Pitchfork’s Nitsuh Abebe writes “The Story of Indie Pop”:
As of the mid-1990s, there were a hell of a lot of kids like this in America: Happy pop geeks in love with all things pretty, listening to seven-inch singles released on tiny labels, writing songs about crushes, and taking a good deal of pride in the [...]
This is an incredible rags-to-riches-to-rags story about the one and only guy — Michael Larsen — who ever gamed my favorite 80s gameshow, Press Your Luck, winning over $100k in the process.
God, I loved watching that show. I always wondered why it went off the air…
Halfcracker’s absence means I’ll be guest-blogging (read: typing in all the research Ray-kwon already did) for this week’s FIVE5. So, if it sucks, blame Old-Man-Ray for cutting out early this week to go hang with his chica in Wisconsin, Minnessota or whatever Fargo-esque midwestern fly-over state she’s in.
Anyway, here’s what’s comin’ at you this week:
1. [...]
Despite my previous disparging comments about Austinist editor Ben Brown, I’ve now come full-circle to believe that’s Ben’s weekly recap of the Real World: Austin is just about some of the funniest reading currently available on the internet(s).
I stopped watching the show after the second episode, and now I soley rely on the caustic wit [...]
CU is now beginning a weekly guide to The City, FIVE5. We plan to keep it real and represent all the cultural institutions of art, music, film, and events. The list of FIVE5 is all you need for your weekly planning:
1. STYLE SESSIONS
What: Style Sessions [...]
Author Chuck Palahniuk, best known for the novels Fight Club and Choke recently released Haunted. Haunted includes the short story ‘Guts’ (below) which caused a stir the other summer because of its graphic nature. If you haven’t heard or read about it, ‘Guts’ was rumored to have cause people to ‘throw up [...]
After a recent uprising for my lack of posts from the fellow CU brethren and after a fantastic few weeks of quality news reporting and TV shows , it is more than time for an update to my recent readings.
American Gods , (Neil Gaiman - 2003)
Teaser: This is a story about gods, [...]
For all my fellow CU brethren and all other curious eyes who know the excitement of being able to crawl into a comfy chair with a good book but don’t know what the next one should be, I would like to start an on-going post of some of my favorites and my recents. [...]
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