As I write this, my favorite current band from Richmond is somewhere between Virginia and Texas, on their way to SXSW. I was lucky enough to catch Lobby Boy's sold-out show at The Camel late in February, along with Burning Sun, Drook, and Strawberry Moon. Arriving...
D.T. Jones wraps his head around Hot Tropic, the brobdignagian 6-hour quadruple LP released a couple years back by zany musical experimentalists Reptile Tile. “One does not simply listen to Hot Tropic. Its black tones are guarded by more than distortion. There are...
A conversation with David Bazan and filmmaker Brandon Vedder about Pedro The Lion, the exhaustion of filming, and reckoning with Trump's America. It was a Sunday at 11 AM when I called Brandon Vedder to interview him and David Bazan about their recent documentary,...
Brandon Vedder's documentary about Pedro The Lion frontman David Bazan gives an intimate look into the difficulties of being a solo musician on the road in Trump's America. To paraphrase James Baldwin, David Bazan loves Christianity more than any other religion in...
Reptile Tile is one of the most remarkable bands working in this era of music. They have enough musicians to start a soccer team. The core members all use cheeky pseudonyms: Terry Cloth, Ellen Degenerate, Ken Shiro, Kiwi Clementine, Bury White, Peter Chopoff, Tanith...