Cartoon Hero Reviewed

July 11, 2010    //    By Andrew    //    no comments

Boston Band Crush has written up a review of “Cartoon Hero” off of our Fischer Random Chess EP. A sample: The collective character of “Cartoon Hero” is brought into being not so much by the vocals but the “supporting players” of guitar and

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Why We Don’t Do Covers, Part II

May 21, 2010    //    By Andrew    //    no comments

This isn’t Matt. Or any of us, for that matter. But I really wish the Jesus and Mary Chain had consulted us before “borrowing” the drum intro from “Call Me Doctor.”

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Williamsburg is Over

June 9, 2009    //    By Andrew    //    no comments

Look at these fucking hipsters… For the past five years, Ernie DiGiacomo has been able to count on parents to guarantee the $1,500 to $2,500 rents he charges for the 15 apartments he owns in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. When he called renters who had missed

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Summerteeth

April 28, 2009    //    By Andrew    //    no comments

Like a cloud, his fingers explode. On the typewriter ribbon, a shadow grows. His heart’s in a bowl behind the bank. And every evening, when he gets home to cook his dinner and eat it alone, his black shirt cries while his shoes get

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Turn Up the Radio Loud!

April 21, 2009    //    By Andrew    //    no comments

The pursuit of quality presentation of our music, with more and more people wanting to hear it, has led us into larger and larger halls with an ever increasing array of equipment. St. Dilbert calls this process ‘Urobouros’… The physics of sound projection

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Crackle and Drag

March 30, 2009    //    By Andrew    //    1 comment

I’m looking to [redacted] to [redacted] to be [redacted] and I wonder if anyone out there knows of a [redacted] in [redacted]. I’m currently [redacted] at [redacted], but I wouldn’t mind [redacted] the [redacted]. Thank you in advance for [redacted]!

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Don’t look back.

February 16, 2009    //    By Jeff    //    no comments

Something might be gaining on you. “Age is a question of mind over matter,” he said. “If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” “If Satch were white, of course he would have been in the majors 25 years earlier and the question

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Motherfucker

February 4, 2009    //    By Andrew    //    no comments

Note: This is not Jeff. Or me.

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Landlord-Tenant Relations, Worcester Style

February 3, 2009    //    By Jeff    //    no comments

Officer says he saw fatal attack Tenant slain outside home I have a recurring premonition of being stabbed to death in Worcester. I avoid it like the plague. The city needs a mass exorcism. Or like, some serious economic development or something. Something of Marshall Plan proportions.

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Chaz

January 29, 2009    //    By Andrew    //    no comments

TERRY MELCHER CAME TO ME! I DIDN’T REJECT TERRY MELCHER! HE COME TO ME WITH MONEY IN HIS HAND. HE OFFERED ME; I DIDN’T ASK HIM. I WASN’T KNOCKING SOMEONE’S DOOR DOWN. I WAS RUNNING FROM THAT. WHEN I GOT OUT, I WAS IN

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