Atlas Sound Record Out Today

Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel is such a good title for a record. Especially a debut from Deerhunter’s Bradford Cox. His stage antics can only point to a spillage of internal demons and the soft, hazy songs he records as Atlas Sound can only point to a melancholy flipside, [...]

Year in Pink: Stinky Edition

I’m not able to put together just one list, so here we have my 2007 in 4 categories that best typify my year in music. None are in any kind of order, but it has been so long since I have wanted to memorize every single note, beat and breath on a record–Amy Winehouse’s [...]

Fairy Dusted

How happy was I to get my 1st ever Palms Out Release on chubby 12″vinyl this week? It took on a metaphysical ecstaticism, if that’s possible. What I’m most excited about is that these tracks are not light, understated or in any way amateur. They are full blown, detailed, nuke the dance floor in [...]

More Itty Bitties

* Cartoon from patheticgeekstories.com
After years of anticipation, Jamie Babbit’s new film “Itty Bitty Titty
Committee” will finally be screening in Chicago next week as part of
this years Reeling Film Festival. Most of you have seen and loved
Babbit’s 1999 queer-teens-in-love film “But I’m a Cheerleader,” and
some of you might have been at just the right age to [...]