Other shows are linked here, many of them are provided by Spirit of ‘68, and another, fuller list can be viewed via Landlocked.
When I say “Mahjonng at the Cinemat this Friday,” it might come across like I’m making an announcement at the retirement home about Asian Game Night. Not like that doesn’t sound like [...]

Nikki Sudden, of Swell Maps and later of Jacobites and then simply of Nikki Sudden, passed on early yesterday morning. Over here for discussion and encomia. Over here for live on WFMU a week ago.

“New York” (mp3)

When Ships, Daniel Smith’s latest album as Danielson, is released on May 6, it will probably reignite the currently dormant and altogether dumb-but-necessary “debate” over Christian-themed indie rock, well-laid out here. I have three reasons for thinking this. First, Smith’s music recorded as Danielson, Br. Danielson, Danielson Familie, etc., can claim its own unique musico-religious [...]

Brought together through Myspace communication, the Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin/Catfish Haven tour began in earnest last night in Bloomington. Catfish bassist (and marathonpacks reader!?) Miguel explained to me that the pairing should work nicely, with both bands currently reading magazines in the waiting room that is blog popularity—neither is big enough to [...]

The difference between Richard Swift’s first two releases, now neatly packaged into one by (fellow Bloomingtonians) Secretly Canadian, is quite large. He crosses, over the course of two full-lengths, the chasm that separates Rufus Wainwright/Ray Davies-style music hall crooning (The Novelist) from more standard, but still well-written and forcefully delivered singer/songwriter fare (Walking Without [...]