Harley’s skinny ass café and lounge hosted the inaugural Distonal shebang with a Cropped Out-curated banquet of delicacies. Distonal is the hot new baloney district sired by art-troll and absurdity excavator Kenny Bloggins, formerly of the enchanting and informative The Decibel Tolls. Louisville’s Tropical Trash and Natives sandwiched the formal mannerisms of Iowa’s Wet Hair and Ohio’s Pyschedelic Horseshit. Troppy Trash kicked out the pulpiest punk jams in town. Wet Hair shined up and scuzzed out the poppier...
read moreVEGASUS Vegasus are a young “space/dance/noise” duo from the minds and souls and fingers of Nick Wilkerson and Anthony Esposito – inventive and prolific young sonic prophets of Louisville’s all-ages DIY scene. Nick also holds down the beats in The New Mexico. Anthony’s freshest endeavor goes by the name Sloux, and if Google is to be trusted, also plays bass with Ace Frehley and members of Dokken. He’s also the oldest-looking high school student in the area. Vegasus wanted a stark, lifeless landscape to frame their...
read moreAmen Dunes dropped by the Z Bar on a stank Thursday evening last week to unpack their woozy tunes and spread the murk with Louisville’s Dane Waters and Zak Riles. Dane raised the curtain with some stark and lovely compositions, sounding a bit like Jarboe’s less feverish moments, or perhaps a Kendra Smith who was raised in the ocean. She would have fit in perfectly with the classic 4AD roster from the late 80′s/early 90′s. Be on the lookout for a video with Everybody’s Hugging featuring her sickest...
read moreIs everyone in Old Baby 7 feet tall? Great to see so many people out at a show on a Sunday night, especially gathered for a program of unsettled throbbing and anti-idyllic mountain poetry. Long serpentine twists and a blunt, oppressive rhythm section sounded perfectly unscrewed and despairing. Kinda like Smog’s Bill Callahan crooked crooning over a more rural Swans. Swogs? If you squint your ears, you can also smell some Lungfish and Led Zeppelin doodles, too. Totally weather-appropriate, by the way. I won’t be...
read moreOld Baby is playing their first placenta-drenched show on Sunday, Dec. 11 at Zanzabar. We don’t know much about them yet, but our favorite rustic giant and Everybody’s Hugging guinea pig, Jonathan Glen Wood, is going to be joined by folks from great bands like Young Widows, The Shipping News, Sapat, Dead Child, and more. Plans are in the works for a release on Hawthorne Street Records, the same people who offered up juicy morsels from locals Brain Banger, Breather Resist, Your Black Star, and Dead Child. The Other Side of Life...
read moreFriday night, Louisville pop connoisseurs The Deloreans squeezed a million fans into the tiny Nach Bar for the annual Black Friday Blackout – ”16 taps of beers through which you cannot see light.” Good lord. I had a Creme Brulee Stout from Southern Tier that tasted like a cup of pancake syrup. The band members sloshed their way through the Pulp Fiction soundtrack dressed as Mia, The Wolf, Vincent, Jules, and a couple of other thugs and cruds that I couldn’t place. A fun idea well...
read moreGulping on the King. Cropped Out came and conquered. The selection of musicians, location, decorations, and attitude were all top-notch. I missed out on some great bands on Friday, but got some pictures of Saturday and Sunday’s delights. Stag party on prom night. ARCANE RIFLES in the brick yard. JOVONTAES and the Lexington super-region. The lumberjack’s beer garden. TROPICAL TRASH brings new odors to Butchertown CRUMMY DEN draperies PYGMY SHREWS put a song in my heart. YOUNG WIDOWS and the headlight amps. COLISEUM...
read moreKentucky Prophet has played everywhere in Louisville, from Za’s Pizza Pub to Lebowski Fest. He’s been unceremoniously stripped of his hip hop crown in Memphis, banned from college Baptist centers, and presided over male stripper night in a seedy Tennessee booze shack. His “Beyond the Fringe” album is a shameful masterpiece of love and loathing. He’s backed off of the hip hop recently, returning to the skewed, absurdist, melodramatic piano pop of his early days. Further high points in the poetry of despair...
read moreHello. Welcome to the website. We want you to watch some videos, so we’ll make this nice and short. We created this site to stash music videos and help people experience unique live performances. These are not traditional music videos, and they aren’t exactly ‘take-away’ shows, either. They are a complete collaboration between artist and filmmaker. Each video is recorded live, and in a single take. Then we spend an couple extra minutes shooting the environment. We are going to keep shooting videos, but...
read moreWe get the car clean and hear a Joan Shelley performance. Check out her new song “Siren” accompanied by water jets and whirling brushes.
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