A few sets I caught at SXSW 2013 only further validated Thee Oh Sees’ status as one of the most formidable live acts in the country. But equally impressive is their steady (read: pretty prolific) output of great albums. Following a long line of earlier releases, their 2011 double release of Castlemania & Carrion Crawler/The Dream, their 2012 LP Putrifiers II […]
On May 21, Radiation City will release their new album Animals in the Median. I, for one, am really fuckin’ excited about this. Having caught caught the PDX quintet a handful of times from Rickshaw Stop to their sold out Independent show with Pickwick to SXSW, I’ve been fortunate to enjoy the new album tracks in […]
Bay Area tune bird Mikal Cronin has a new album titled MCII comin out 5/7 on Merge. I caught Mikal opening for Thee Oh Sees at SXSW, which makes sense considering the narrowing degrees of separation between the former, Ty Segall and the latter. Mikal dropped a new track titled “Weight” today. Given Mikal’s past work […]
So we’re starting a new chapter here at Apes on Tape, time to add a little more voice to the site. Literally. A handful of readers might know I was involved with starting the U of San Diego Radio Station, but figured timing is ripe to bust out the old microphone and get back to […]
By: Alan Densmore Photos: Melissa Hines About four months ago, I wrote a late night drunken email to the big wigs here at AoT. I had just heard about Django Django and wanted to write about how we have to enjoy their music (or any other fast rising pop band with a one hit wonder […]