From the Metro Santa Cruz

Rock music is obsessed with picking over its own bones, constantly recapitulating what has come before in increasingly derivative permutations. It’s rare to come across a band with a sound that’s undeniably new, but Portland’s Menomena is just such a band, skillfully merging meat-and-potatoes indie rock with digital loops, a dub-inspired low-end rumble and a contemporary cut ‘n’ paste approach to composition. If there’s another band Menomena most resembles–philosophically if not sonically–it’s Radiohead, in their recontextualization of what a rock band can be in a digital age. Click here to read more »

26 April 1:12pm

I often lay in bed, imagining putting my head in a vice. The vice coming down, cracking my jaw, giving at least some relief. If nothing else, it might move the pain elsewhere. I think about these scenarios all the time, obsessively; I can’t help myself, the throbbing is insistent. At least inventing these scenarios gives me some sort of escape. I think about taking a hammer to my jaw, about running a screwdriver through the abscess, about slamming my head against the wall until I can’t feel a thing. Click here to read more »