Articles by Ian Danzig
Lilys
Selected
PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2000
Kurt Heasley's revisioned, '60s-inspired pop outfit, Lilys, present their first studio recording in two years and it's only a five-song EP....
The Sea and Cake
Oui
PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2000
Unlike Shrimp Boat, the Cocktails and Tortoise, bands that planted the seeds for the Sea and Cake, you know what you're going to get with a...
Sunshine Fix
A Future History of A Sunshine Fix
PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2000
Bill Doss, founder of the Olivia Tremor Control, takes a tip from his companions and travels down a new path of his own making. At one time...
Don Caballero
American Don
PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2000
Pittsburgh trio Don Caballero continues their instrumental rock onslaught with a new album of aggressive instrumental prog. Wild rhythms an...
The Fucking Champs
IV
PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2000
While I'm often inclined to describe contemporary instrumental art rock as prog, meaning "progressive" (a perfectly good word that seems to...
Libraness
Yesterday and Tomorrow's Shells
PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2000
Ash Bowie, of Helium and Polvo fame, goes it alone and comes up with a wild and intoxicating mess of sound collage, aggressive art rock, he...
Mayflies USA
The Pity List
PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2000
Chapel Hill's Mayflies USA have tapped into that classic, sharply focused American pop often identified with Big Star on their second recor...
Minders
Down In Fall
PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2000
UK transplant Martyn Leaper created the Minders in Denver, CO, and has since transported this '60s-influenced musical juggernaut to Portlan...