So after a number of false starts, we’re back. Again. Looks like Wordpress is the culprit — something about feed caches or feed storage bins or I dunno what — and so I don’t know what that will mean in the future, but for now, we are here. And your RSS feeds should have awoken [...]

The excellent new Noze album hit the site today. If the thought of Tom Waits making house music makes you smile from ear to ear, this one is for you.

Amazing! Just a week or two after I mentioned it on 17 Dots as a comparison to Parson Sound, Hawkwind’s absolutely incredible Space Ritual Vol. 2 hit the site today, and anyone with any level of interest in metal, drone or just amazingly weird sounds would be wise to pick this up. This is a [...]

Charles Mingus was clearly a man for whom feline cleanliness was important. I respect the dedication to cat training shown here - it’s kind of wonderful and all true – this is from his official website (and I do love that his cat was called Nightlife.)

In these days of digital downloads and industry turmoil it is so easy to feel disconnected emotionally from the hype and release of any body of recorded music. So imagine my surprise and delight when I was sent into a fanatic FURY upon noticing what had been tagged in two normally unexciting fields of [...]

So there’s not a whole lot of consistency in this post — just a shout about two records that I’ve really been into lately that I fear will slip through the cracks: EMC’s The Show and Children of Bodom’s Blooddrunk.

A few days ago, one of our users, burnboy, started a thread on our message boards about Brooklyn bands, and some thoughts/questions he has about them, whether there’s a scene, etc. Since a lot of us 17 Dots writers and readers hail from/spend a lot of time in Brooklyn, I thought this might be a [...]

With this much hitting the site at once, it’s impossible that I won’t miss something. So here we go, deep breath — let’s dive on in.

Joe will be taking on the full-bore new arrivals post shortly, but I wanted to hop out to highlight Cake’s Motorcade of Generosity, a longtime favorite of mine — Sean, the drummer of my dad’s Southern rock band Rock Bottom, gave me a copy in 1995 — that just hit the site. I’m sure most [...]

Ladyhawke is my most recent musical crush – I’ve known and loved her for about a week. After Friday’s disappointing through-a-window-darkly Ladyhawke experience, I was determined to see her properly, even though that meant squishing into the painfully overcrowded Cubana - crutches, gammy ankle and all. Ladyhawke, aka New Zealander Pip Brown, sounds like a [...]

Over the weekend I saw what was easily my favorite show of the year so far. Brendan Fowler makes music mostly under the name BARR, but for his gallery show at Rivington Arms which closed on Saturday night, he performed as his new project “Disaster”. Which basically ended up being a few new [...]

You asked, he answered! This week we’ll be running Dan Bejar’s answers to your questions as our homepage “Ask the Artist” feature. Find out which Dylan records are Bejar’s favorites, learn the true identity of the “wealthy American underground,” and find out which question prompted the response: “Your question makes me think that you’ve [...]

Porkpie hats; eighties cocktail frocks; Winehouse-eyeliner; pastel tights; skinny jeans, obviously; checked shirts, granddad cardigans and Converse, Converse, Converse. Camden’s always been London’s Indie Central, but during the two days of the Camden Crawl the area becomes slightly monocultural – anything goes so long as it’s indie.
In fairness, the modern indie fan prays in a [...]

A couple of things that I’ve been spinning recently.

A bunch of us 17 Dotters were at this show. So good. If you click through check out the second clip, a new song called “Oceanus” that’s my favorite song of theirs.

Time to share my Muxtape. Thursday last week I was DJ-ing at Lovelife, a night put on in Camden’s Lock Tavern by my friend Anna-Marie. I was part of a four-woman DJ team, consisting of Anna-Marie, myself, Marianna and Annabel. Given the similarity of our names we called oursleves Les Annaquites. We were briefed to [...]

The only bad thing about Let’s Wrestle is that they make it impossible to listen to anything else. There’s catchy and then there’s catchy, and somehow these three London boys have invented a whole new CATCHY that scientists worldwide are currently devoting resources to cure. If you think I’m joking you obviously haven’t listened. Yet.
Let’s [...]

Last night the Good Timing Fairy smiled upon us, as on the same day they were debuted as the newest addition to eMusic Selects, Crystal Stilts played a show at the Knitting Factory in NYC. And they were good! The songs were looser live, as you might expect, and I’m totally gutted to say that [...]

Last week I headed out to Seattle for the annual rock-critic/academic/journalist geekfest known as the EMP Pop Conference. Among a host of interesting papers, a few stood out.

This past February while preparing Susu and Hands on Heads for the March installment of eMusic Selects, Alex Naidus, our newest editor, came to us with a band called Crystal Stilts. They needed something like Selects, he explained, because not only were they great, but all of their gear had just been stolen, and they [...]