[LISTEN] [Label: Sub Pop] [Date Released: February 10, 2015] [Genre: Indie Rock / Psychedelic Folk]
In recent years, the most striking image of the newly infamous Joshua Tillman has been his brazen gallop down a road deep in Hollywood’s Laurel Canyon, pants around his strained...
[LISTEN] [Label: Domino] [Date Released: January 13, 2015] [Genre: Neo-Psychedelia / Electronic]
It’s a well-known, yet seldom completely understood phenomenon that the longer and deeper you trudge on in life, the more and more death presses in on one’s mind. At a certain point, staring death in...
Lead by Tyler Broderick, Diners is a pop rock band from Pheonix, Arizona. Coming fresh off of a west coast tour promoting their latest record "Always Room", we had the chance to speak with Tyler about talk shows, diners, recording albums, and the first guitar riff...
Minwoo Chang reports on teachers with low pay and the process of becoming a teacher. In addition, the funding of the K-12 school system is discussed as well.
Image from: The New York Times...
[LISTEN] [Label: Touch & Go Records]
[Date Released: September 16, 2014] [Genre: Noise Rock /Math Rock / Hardcore]
Shellac is a band with a very narrow focus. They are a three piece featuring Steve Albini, a famous producer, on guitar and vocals, and churn out tight, mathematically precise...
Despite a suspected need to intravenously inject holly and tinsel from a bright candy cane- colored syringe as prompted by flood of Christmas spirit burning ever since Halloween in the worst cases, it’s always possible to tone things down. Not to say that 24/7 broadcasts of...
Towards the end of the year we asked several KDVS DJs about their favorite release of 2014. In no particular order, here is the list accompanied with a few words from a few KDVS DJs.
After some awkward attempts to navigate the otherwise barren streets surrounding the venue, my friend and I got there at 8 thinking we would arrive well into the hefty five-band lineup. As far as we could tell, they hadn’t even done a sound-check yet. Amps and instruments...
Curators Joe Pickett (left) and Nick Prueher introduce a VHS clip at a Found Footage Festival show in Milwaukee. Photo by Erik Ljung. The Found Footage Festival is a touring show in which comedians and curators Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher show bizarre and humorous...