At this past year's
Houston Press Awards show, a friend and I happened to wander into a downtown club where a local band called
The Handsomes were getting ready to start their set. I'd heard
of the band before, but never heard 'em, and nobody else either one of us really wanted to see was playing right then, so we slipped in and squeezed through the pack of bleached-blondes and slick-haired guys...
[more] || [Jeremy Hart] || [01/24/06]
Kinski are a rocking drone-rock four-piece from Seattle. They are sonic sculptors who shape textures on an epic scale, but never forget to bring it all back home. Their latest album, the excellent
Alpine Static, is out now on Sub Pop Records. On January 11, 2006, I chatted with Kinski guitar player and mastermind
Chris Martin about life, music, and exploding vans...
[more] || [Conor Prischmann] || [01/24/06]
Faced with the current glut of "sincere" punk-with-melody-and-emotion out there these days, it's easy to forget that it hasn't always been this way. There was a time -- only a decade and a half back, now -- when punk bands were snotty, goofy, pseudo-political streetpunks from the Bay Area, tough-talking hardcore guys from the East Coast, or flannel-wearing depressives from the rainy Northwest...
[more] || [Jeremy Hart] || [01/24/06]
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