With an obvious appreciation for junkyard noise poet Tom Waits’ approach to song construction (using peculiar instruments and idiosyncratic and metaphoric lyrics), the release of Sharpen Your Teeth by reluctant pop star Ugly Casanova, is another remarkable discovery for Seattle based Sub Pop Records. The Washington based Emo band Modest Mouse first noticed Edgar Graham a.k.a. Ugly Casanova in the summer of 1998.  Showing signs of psychological unevenness that endeared them to him, the trio invited Casanova to tour.  While Continue Reading

In going with the typical Conor Oberst, this is music that makes you think. No, it doesn’t call for you to run in front of the oncoming subway train in a hasty fit of depression, as does his continuing work in Bright Eyes, but it sure makes me contemplate setting fire to the new city developments in protest of the mass industrialization of our country.    We all know the story…out goes mom and pop’s coffee shop, in comes thirteen Continue Reading

These boys perpetuated an adequate amount of internet chat room gossip after their inexplicable-albeit short-lived-hiatus a few years ago. The drummer packed up and left for Berlin, and two other members hit Denver for whatever reason. They missed one another enormously though, and a few tear-stained letters went back and forth. Now the Bloodlet legacy has come back to embalm any “nice“ bands they get booked now with as they tour the planet relentlessly. Promoters, you have received your official Continue Reading